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President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar attend ceremony outside the GPO

Cumann an Phiarsaigh/Patrick Pearse’s GAC in North Belfast is a club with rich tradition and history. 

Ah, the day was glorious! We drank our coffee and loaded the car for the trip to Dublin to visit Kilmainham Gaol. We were lucky that we had seen no rain so far, but we always traveled with our coats and umbrellas, just in case.

It is Paddy’s weekend after all.

George Brent, an Easter Rising Irish rebel turned Hollywood star, was born on this day in 1904. Born George Brendan Nolan, this Irishman was a doppelganger of Michael Collins. He went on to enjoy a Hollywood career after Ireland's Easter Rising.

Disillusioned by the defeats of the 1886 and 1893 Home Rule bills, the Liberals ignored the demand for Home Rule when they won an overall majority in the 1906 election. But Ireland came to the top of the political agenda when two elections in 1910, caused by a constitutional crisis regarding the powers of the House of Lords, made the Liberal government of H.H. Asquith dependent on the Home Rule Party for its parliamentary majority. The reduction of the power of the Lords by the Parliament Act of...

Located just 30 miles east of London, an abandoned oil refinery on the edge of the Thames Estuary has become an unlikely wildlife haven.

Our guide of activities you can experience together as a family in County Galway - Rooftop Garden at Lough Rea Hotel, Connemara National Park, NUI Galway, Ionad Cultúrtha an Phiarsaigh, Aran Island Ferries, Kylemore Abbey and Victorian Walled Garden, Lally Tours, The Sheep and Pure Skill.

The Settle-Carlisle line is the most scenic rail route in England: a 73-mile trundle through the wide fells of Yorkshire and Cumbria. But it was only built because of dented pride.

Ireland's peat bogs have heated Irish homes for centuries. But could cycling through them help fuel a slow travel revolution and save this landscape?