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1916 as virtual history

J. J. Lee muses on the fact that much of the huge corpus of writing on 1916 is of the virtual history type, based on assumptions about what the course of Irish history would have been if only something had been different.
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Featured Articles

The long revolution: the 1916 rising in context
The long revolution: the 1916 rising in context Read More >>

‘A work for other hands’: Patrick Pearse and St Ita’s College
‘A work for other hands’: Patrick Pearse and St Ita’s College Pearse’s involvement with education through his writing and in founding St Enda’s forms a widely known part of his story, but what do we know of his other school, St Ita’s girls’ college? David Limond fills in some of the blanks. Read More >>

The Roll of Honour of 1916
The Roll of Honour of 1916 A Roll of Honour was duly presented to the National Museum in 1936. But was it ‘an authentic list’? Labhras Joye and Brenda Malone investigate. Read More >>

‘The strange thing I am’: his father’s son?
‘The strange thing I am’: his father’s son? While Patrick Pearse was clearly aware of the profound effect his English father had had on the development of his character, James Pearse has generally been sidelined in discussions of the 1916 leader. Brian Crowley fills in the background on Pearse’s freethinking, autodidact father. Read More >>