Leon Uris’ 1976 novel “Trinity” is set in Ireland between the Great Famine and the Easter Rising. When Irish Catholic ...

Ireland’s premier and president have offered their condolences to the families of those who died after a London-bound plane crashed in India. Air India said the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft was ...

Independent republicans will take part in a commemoration to remember United Irishman Theobald Wolfe Tone in Co Kildare this ...

The armed insurrection was organised by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, whose members included Pearse, James Connolly, Tom Clarke and Seán Mac Diarmada. A number of groups, including the Irish ...

1905 saw the formation of Sinn Fein (which is Gaelic for 'we ourselves'). At the same time, the revolutionary Irish Republican Brotherhood had moved the fight to England for the first time, carrying ...

The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924, by John O’Beirne Ranelagh (Irish Academic Press). The Irish Republican Brotherhood, founded in the late nineteenth century, was a secret society ...

Michael Collins, Commander in Chief of the Irish Free State, is shot in an ambush on this day in 1922. Get This Happened straight to your inbox ️ each day! Sign up here. What was Michael ...

And so on. What a travesty it will be… Read by future generations of Irish children, it will simply perpetuate the long-standing hatred of England…” That was the response in 1951 of ...

The 1916 Easter Rising was organised by a tiny group of conspirators. They were the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Formed in 1858, the IRB was a small, oath-bound ...

The pre-World War I outlook for what historians call “advanced nationalism” in Ireland was glum — the IRA’s forerunner, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, had just 1 500 members.

He had been a prisoner in English jails from 1883 to 1898, having been convicted of treason-felony after a bombing mission he undertook in England as a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood ...