He was a prominent nationalist and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood for whom he went to the United States in 1896. He then went to South Africa where he fought against the British in the ...

Patrick Rankin was born in Newry in 1889. A painter by trade, he became a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in 1907 "after two years on the waiting list." We all slept the sleep of ...

A month later, in December he was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood. After the split in the Volunteers in August 1914, Pearse continued his rise to prominence amongst the ranks of ...