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On This Day: Easter Rising leader Thomas Clarke was executed On This Day: Easter Rising leader Thomas Clarke was executed The moments that defined Thomas Clarke's life and why he is such an important figure in Irish history Facebook Comments Thomas Clarke, a key member of the Irish revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. was among the rebel leaders executed on May 3, 1916. Thomas J. Clarke was born in 1858 on the Isle of Wight but grew up in County Tyrone. At age 20 he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and his career as an indefatigable Irish revolutionary ...

Comments The poem that defined the era of the Easter Rising is "Easter, 1916" by William Butler Yeats. Here, Irish Ambassador to the US Daniel Mulhall explains in an essay who are the unlikely heroes Yeats is memorializing. Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916' is not a bad place to start when seeking an understanding of that transformative era for modern Ireland. Yeats, writing in the immediate aftermath of the Rising, spotted that Ireland had been 'changed utterly' by the events of Easter week. His description of the Rising as 'a terrible beauty' summed up his ambivalent attitude as did ...

It's the everyday items that really hit home, that speak of historical truth. A truth to which we can all relate. The day I visited Auschwitz I was quite blase. Didn't I know all about it? As a former postgraduate student of modern history and as someone who, like all of us, had seen Auschwitz depicted in film and books and debated on radio and television by world-renowned academics over the years, I thought I knew all there was to know about the horror of the Nazi death camp. I didn't. I hadn't a clue. Just come with me for a moment and follow me into the bowels of the camp, walking, as I d...