THE DECISIVE impact of the third Home Rule Bill on the history of Ireland over the past century was the theme of the first official…

A MAYO community that lost the cream of its youth in the Titanic tragedy brought their departure from the village vividly back…

THE FIRST World War represents the worst Irish death toll from a single event since the Famine, making it imperative that its…

With much of Belfast’s ‘Titanic’ celebrations focusing on the ship, Philip Hammond has composed a moving musical tribute to the…

THE ULSTER unionist campaign against the 1912 Home Rule Bill led by Lord Edward Carson served the interests of violent republicanism…

IT’S NOT often you have a dinner at which 70 guests use more than 840 glasses.

THE LOGIC that underpins the Belfast Agreement, the principle of consent, requires us to re-examine historical assumptions about…

COMMEMORATIONS can help shape our collective political, social and cultural conscience and may be a source of healing and learning…

OPINION: CONCERN HAS been expressed recently that the coming decade of centenary celebrations could lead to great controversy…

UNIONIST AND nationalist politicians, tourism chiefs and community relations personnel are among a diverse group charged with…

A DECADE of commemoration will begin in the year ahead as ceremonies are held to mark the momentous events that changed the face…

OPINION: NEXT TUESDAY marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on December 6th, 1921

OPINION: Home Rule and the Dublin Lockout should be commemorated as well as the Rising

With such a long tradition of complex and contradictory responses to the 1916 Easter Rising, there’s no reason to expect the …

When a Fianna Fáil Minister, Brian Lenihan, speaks tomorrow at Béal na mBláth on the anniversary of Michael Collins’s death, …

A roundup of this week's paperbacks

HISTORY: Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO By Clair Wills Profile Books 299pp £14.99

In 1966, the golden jubilee of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann broadcast a series of 21 lectures on the history of Ireland…

History  Last year's commemoration of events in 1916 has inspired a thought-provoking essay collection

Irish History: A return to the 'lived reality' of the events of Easter week in words and pictures

Inside Politics: The pomp and ceremony surrounding the official commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising has…

In his stage treatment of the 1916 Rising, the usually controversial writer Donal O'Kelly is for once seeking to reach the middle…

The Defence Forces will march past the GPO on O'Connell Street in Dublin tomorrow in the first military parade commemorating …

The Rising produced an economic and social philosophy which condemned Ireland to material failure until the 1960s, writes Paul…

Shane Hegarty  hears views from a selection of public figures on the legacy of the 1916 Rising.

Connect: Last Sunday, the Observer newspaper published an article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

For modern Ireland to turn its back on Easter 1916 - or to relinquish it to the political necrophiliacs of provisionalism - would…

Other nations, or so it seems from a distance, are grounded in certainties which grow subtly stronger all the while, whereas …

Speech by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern at the opening of the commemorative exhibition on the Easter 1916 Rising at the National Museum…

Last month I found myself standing in the prison cell where Patrick Pearse awaited his execution at Kilmainham Gaol in May 1916…

WorldView: Who won in 1916? This is hard to answer, but it is a vital aspect of the politics of commemoration

The opening of the Island of Ireland Peace Tower at Messines in Belgium in 1998 marked a turning point in Irish remembrance of…

Had you taken a sleeping draught a mere 10 years ago, and finally woken up this month, you would not know the Ireland before …