Doctors and Warriors
2 June 2014
Book Reviews: Dorothy Stopford Price: Rebel Doctor and Memoirs of an Old Warrior – Jamie Moynihan’s Fight for Irish Freedom, 1916-1923 Premium service article
Sinn Féin plans for 1916 Revolutionary Quarter
29 April 2014
GERRY ADAMS was joined on Easter Sunday by relatives of some of those who fought and died during Easter Week 1916 to officially launch Sinn Féin’s proposals to establish a revolutionary quarter around the buildings and lanes of history where the last act in the drama of the 1916 Easter Week took place. Free article
Drivers of the revolution
29 April 2014
Thomas Clarke. By Helen Litton and Seán Mac Diarmada. By Brian Feeney. 16 Lives series, by O’Brien Press Premium service article
Enemy of the Empire – Roger Casement
29 April 2014
Roger Casement. By Angus Mitchell, 16 Lives Series, O’Brien Press, €12.99 Premium service article
A heroine of republican struggle
29 April 2014
Doing My Bit for Ireland. By Margaret Skinnider. Prologue by Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD Free article
The Rising outside Dublin
20 April 2014
This feature first appeared in An Phoblacht/Republican News on March 28th 1991 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising Free article
The Irish Volunteer – Volume 1 - Number 11
18 April 2014
New online – Cumann na mBan and battallions of Volunteers, The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 11 newspaper, first published 18th April 1914. Free article
The Irish Volunteer, Volume 1 - Number 9
4 April 2014
The Irish Volunteer – Óglach na hÉireann (An t-Óglác) of Saturday 4 April 1914 has 16 pages packed with news of the growth of the Óglaigh na hÉireann (Irish Volunteers) the length and breadth of Ireland, from Belfast to Derry, Dublin, Tipperary, Cork and Limerick as well as London. Free article
Cumann na mBan celebrated 100 years on at its birthplace
3 April 2014
IT WAS standing room only in Wynn's Hotel, Dublin, on Wednesday night when over 150 people attended a celebration of the founding of the revolutionary women's organisation Cumann na mBan exactly 100 years ago to that exact date in that very same building. Free article
Marion Steenson – Laoch imeasc na mBan
30 March 2014
MARION STEENSON (neé Murphy) is a formidable woman. She had to be. As a youthful 87-year-old, the most striking thing about meeting her is the clarity with which she recalls her upbringing in a republican household steeped in history and the fearless way in which she still espouses her beliefs without fear or favour. Free article
A wealth of 1916 info at your fingertips
30 March 2014
A MINE of information about Ireland’s revolutionary period began to be opened this year with the first tranche of military pension archives of 1916 participants going online. Free article
Centenary of Cumann na mBan
30 March 2014
THE founding of Cumann na mBan in 1914 was an important step both in the assertion of women’s role in Irish politics and in the radicalisation of Irish nationalist politics itself. Free article
The definitive history of the Irish Citizen Army and the trials after Easter Week 1916
30 March 2014
The History of the Irish Citizen Army and Easter Rising 1916: The Trials Free article
‘Labour should give partition the bitterest opposition’ – James Connolly
2 March 2014
When the plot to partition Ireland was first exposed in early 1914 it was condemned vehemently by James Connolly. On 14 March 1914, he wrote an article in the Irish Worker titled ‘Labour and the Proposed Partition of Ireland’. 100 years on, we reprint that article in full Free article
Centenary of the Curragh Mutiny
2 March 2014
IN THEIR opposition to Home Rule for Ireland during the crisis of 1912 to 1914, the unionists were backed by a large section of the British Establishment, including many senior British Army officers. Free article
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