Europe Letter: The horrors of king Leopold’s colony spurred Roger Casement to rebellion

How did the untrained, poorly armed IRA succeed against the superior British forces?

Cork actor appeared in stage version of Borstal Boy nine times, winning Tony award

The late Diarmaid L Fawsitt archive provides insight into Cork ’s cultural and political life

Irish has been instrumentalised for centuries in many ways beyond domain of cultural nationalism

.. fleadh. Patsy McGarry

Volunteer Martin Savage (21) was killed when a bullet entered his neck at Ashtown in 1919

How the war began and how it progressed over the course of 1919

Vote 100: Progressive teacher and fervent separatist became one of the leading women in Irish politics

New illustrated book celebrates 150th anniversary of Methody in Northern capital

America Letter: Stateside screening of movie shines light on lesser-known US connections

Organisation, initially known as the Gaelic League, has celebrated its 125th anniversary

John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party still casts a long shadow over the politics of modern Ireland

Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since independence have held it to account

My late father believed he walked on water, unaided, and probably skipped and jumped as well without once sinking

Una Birch Pope-Hennessy’s account of a visit to Dublin is a who’s-who of the revolution

‘The funeral was the largest which has been seen in Dublin since that of Mr Parnell’

We have moved beyond the shame and glory of the past, but have yet to invent our future nation

Most of us would happily have exchanged places with our classmate the Protestant

The Irish psychiatrist at the heart of a new documentary has transformed our view of mental illness

The California city’s Walking the Rebellion tour includes curiosities like the site of the Sinn Féin Shoe Store, which helped fund the Irish republican cause

Future presidents and Proclamation signatories among Gaelic League Oireachtas 1913

Participants ‘exceedingly anxious to be regarded as soldiers’

Speaking Irish in… Los Angeles

Women dodged bullets during Easter week 1916 to walk to the Rotunda to give birth. An exhibition tells the remarkable stories of five women linked to the hospital

In terrible revolutionary fall-out his Mise Éire master piece was expropriated by Republicanism

Long a Gaelic revivalist, Pearse was a latecomer to politics and gunfire, his unfortunate brother an even later one

In the summer of 1915, the military leadership of the Irish Republican Brotherhood started to draw up plans for a rising against British rule

‘Famine Folios’ aims to see national calamity afresh through 21st-century eyes

The second city’s second street is the only one in Ireland to be shortlisted for a Great Street Award by a London-based academy. Is it a good choice?

Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, editor of The GAA & Revolution in Ireland 1913-1923, looks at how Irish historiography has evolved and how the GAA helped keep a divided nation together

1916 centenary beckons: ‘They really couldn’t ignore the last man shot outside Dublin’

Replica of stone statue of ‘Galway’s Chekhov’ may be unveiled in Eyre Square

A desire to use art to effect political change unites El Lissitzky and Alice Milligan

Sean Ó Labhra: May 15th, 1932, - July 2nd, 2015

Cork City Council votes to award the honour to veteran actor and comedian later this year

Rare images of 1921 ferry disaster in which London band members drowned on way to Dublin