Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse visited Belfast to support language campaign
A collector has uncovered a letter showing that Patrick Pearse visited Belfast in 1911 to campaign for Irish language rights.
The long journey of Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams, who has announced his intention to stand down as president of Sinn Féin, has invariably been a political leader who has attracted widely conflicting assessments.
Brian Irvine and Andrew Hamilton among nominees for composer awards
BELFAST-born composer Brian Irvine and Dubliner Andrew Hamilton are among the 30 nominees for the British Composer Awards 2017, announced earlier this week.
1916 leader Padraig Pearse's sister talked of 'our lost six counties' that would be 'restored again soon'
Margaret Pearse, sister of executed Irish republican leader Padraig Pearse, is the subject of a new book
1916 commemorative medal company criticised for being ‘unable to process' orders from north
A DUBLIN company which issues commemorative coins and medals to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising has said it will "look into resolving" a situation which means only customers based in the Republic can place an order.
Nobel peace laureate Máiread Maguire describes Easter Rising as 'ethically and morally wrong'
NOBEL Peace laureate Máiread Maguire has criticised the Easter Rising as "ethically and morally wrong."
Interactive visitor centre brings living history to Dublin's GPO
HISTORY comes to life for Jenny Lee who visits GPO Witness History, a new interactive visitor centre, inside the GPO in Dublin.
Tom Collins: Nation remembers the poets' revolution
HISTORY rewrites itself many times, and then it emerges as myth. The Easter Rising is a case in point.
Easter Rising was failed by those who came after
The 1916 Rising did not fail. It was failed by those who came after it. For 100 years, the Irish people (including up to two million who emigrated) have watched as governments, political parties and armed groups paid homage to 1916, while abandoning the Rising's social, economic and political principles.