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Hace 3 días · And so the celebrated Revolutionary turbulence of 1916–23 – the famous story of rebellions and killings and imprisonment and adventure and dreams – turns out on close inspection to have been an aberration from the normal, milder path of Irish nationalism.
Hace 3 días · Sinn Fein, political party in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that seeks to end the political partition of the island of Ireland, embodying an ideology that is variously characterized as nationalism and Republicanism and advocating democratic socialism.
Hace 3 días · The uprising that began on Easter Monday 1916 involved militant nationalist men and women, who seized locations around Dublin and held them against British forces for a brief, destructive week. Pašeta sharply challenges the entrenched notion that women had to force their way into participation in the famous revolt and that, once ...
Hace 3 horas · On every front, there was slaughter and failure. The vast death toll at the Battle of the Somme had brought little advance. An attempt to seize the Dardanelles from the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany, had ended in humiliating retreat, while the British armed forces were further over-stretched by an Irish Republican uprising in Dublin.
Hace 1 día · Staged on Easter Weekend fifty-nine years after the 1916 Rising in Liberty Hall the headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union The Non-Stop Connolly Show told the story of the life of James Connolly, the insurrectionist and socialist leader of the Irish Citizen’s Army, who was cruelly shot dead after the rebellion by British forces.
Hace 3 días · 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion by Morgan Llywelyn. Titanic survivor Ned Halloran has returned to his homeland to attend school in Dublin after losing both of his parents in the ship’s sinking. There, he meets the famed Patrick Pearse, a revolutionary leader and the headmaster of his new school.
Hace 1 día · Social Media Editor Anna O’Donoghue looks at how the story of Natasha O’Brien sparked an online uprising The social media post shared by over 500,000 people after Ashling Murphy's murder. Wed ...
