What began on an Easter morning in Dublin would ignite a revolution. The Easter Rising planted the roots of Irish ...

Thousands of people are expected to take part in a range of special commemorative events, performances and ceremonies across the country this weekend to mark the calendar centenary on the 24th of ...

More than 2,500 Irish military personnel, some saluting atop tanks and others marching with fixed bayonets, paraded Sunday past the bullet-scarred spot where rebels launched a fateful Easter 1916 ...

Commemorations have taken place in Dublin on the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. The 1916 rebellion was an attempt to overthrow British rule in Ireland and has been credited by many historians ...

During Easter week of 1916, an armed rebellion led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood took place in Dublin, with smaller insurrections scattered throughout the rest of Ireland. This rebellion stemmed ...

This weekend, thousands around the world will once again commemorate the beginning of the 1916 Easter Rising. Sunday, April 24, 2016, will officially mark 100 years to the day since rebel forces ...

The General Post Office in Dublin shown here after the 1916 Rising. 100 years after the Irish rebel forces collided with the British Army in the bloody Easter Rising, the country continues to ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The 100 th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the 1916 Irish rebellion against British rule, is being commemorated in Springfield over the next couple months. The story of ...

PROVIDENCE — In 1916, one in four Rhode Islanders claimed Irish heritage. So when the armed revolt against British rule in Ireland began in Dublin that Monday after Easter, the insurrection drew ...

IRELAND AND the world is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the great 1916 Rising. On the morning of Easter Monday 1916, April 24, some 1,300 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army ...