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The Journal of the Old Athlone Society, Vol. III, No. 10 (2015) (Athlone, €22 pb, 194pp). Diarmuid Ferriter and Susannah Riordan (eds), Years of turbulence: the Irish Revolution and its […]

1916 tours of Dublin

By Tony Canavan The fact that the historic streetscape and buildings of Dublin have changed so little over the last century means that the city itself is a kind of […]

Televising the Rising Rebellion Ar son na poblachta Ireland before the Rising

RTÉ1, January 2016 By John Gibney RTÉ is naturally investing a great deal of capital in the centenary of the Easter Rising across all of its platforms: TV, radio, archives, […]

‘Imagining the past to remember the future’?: Easter 1916 in 2016

‘Imagining the past to remember the future’?: Easter 1916 in 2016 By Fearghal McGarry In ‘Easter, 1916’, Yeats identified the sacrifice of the insurgents with resurrection, just as Patrick Pearse […]

Thomas Clarke’s signature, No. 16 Moore Street

By Lar Joye The GPO was the headquarters of the Rising and from Wednesday 26 April was to become the main focus of attention for the British Army, as they […]