The Roll of Honour of 1916

‘At the request of the Easter Week Memorial Committee, a number of persons who participated in the Easter Week Rising, 1916 . . . undertook the task of preparing an […]

‘A work for other hands’: Patrick Pearse and St Ita’s College

In his account of St Enda’s, of which he was a pupil and where he came to know Pearse intimately, Desmond Ryan said simply: ‘It is hardly within my province […]

The Gardener of Glenstal

TG: Tell us a bit about your background. BM: I was typically London Irish. My father, John, came from a farming family with land at Tarelton and Inchigeelagh, Co. Cork. […]

1916 in the de Valera papers

The de Valera papers, and a significant collection of those of his private secretary, Kathleen O’Connell, fit seamlessly into an existing collections profile within the UCD Archives that includes the […]

Making sense of Easter 1916

Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, a group of Irish separatists took the decision to launch a rebellion before the war ended, and early in 1915 an […]