Chronology of the Easter Rising
Monday, 17 April, 1916 • The Military Council meets and approves the draft of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. The Council...
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Death on the Western Front during Easter Week, 1916
While Dublin was thrown into turmoil during Easter Week 1916, the fighting in World War One rumbled on. While Irish soldiers...
Read moreResponses from the Front: The Impact of the Rising on Irish Soldiers at War
The Easter Rising took place against the backdrop of a European war in which thousands of their fellow countrymen –...
Read moreReporting the Rising: Press Coverage of Easter 1916
Frank O’Connor was 13 years old in 1916, but decades later, as a then celebrated short-story writer, he would recall...
Read moreWomen of the Revolution: Untold Stories
Lucy McDiarmid is Professor of English at Montclair State University in the United States and the author of At Home...
Read moreThe Destruction of Dublin
The 1916 Easter Rising damaged a variety of public and professional buildings and spaces in Dublin. Much of this destruction followed...
Read moreEaster Week 1916: what should have happened?
Once the Easter Rising began around midday on Easter Monday, normal everyday life in the city came to a halt....
Read moreThe Civilian Dead: Counting the human cost of the 1916 Rising
The Irish rebellion of Easter week 1916 lasted for six days during which, or as a direct result of the violence, 485...
Read moreLondon-Ireland and the 1916 Rising
The ‘Sinn Féin’ rebellion has been both contemporary and historiographical misnomer. The events of Easter Week...
Read moreHow the Rising was planned
On 11 May 1916, speaking in the House of Commons shortly after the Easter Rising and with the execution of its leaders...
Read moreTransporting Rebellion: How the motorcar shaped the Rising
As motorcars sped members of the Secret Military Council towards Liberty Hall on Easter Sunday, few could have imagined that...
Read moreFrom parliamentarians to paramilitaries: the militarisation of Irish Life, 1913-16
Irish society was militarised between 1913 and 1916. The path of parliamentary politics became unsure and undesirable. The uncomfortable truth is that...
Read moreIreland’s Opportunity? The First World War & 1916
The outbreak of the First World War transformed Irish political circumstances and provides the vital backdrop against which the planning...
Read moreWhat if the guns had landed?
By Dr John Gibney On 24 April 1916 a relatively small group of militants, all members of a range of fringe organisations,...
Read moreExplainer: What was the Easter Rising?
The Easter Rising took place in Dublin, and a few outposts across the country, between Monday 24 April and Sunday 29 April, 1916....
Read moreIreland 1912-1916: An Introduction
By the beginning of the twentieth century, Ireland was divided. Irish nationalists wanted Ireland to be either established as a...
Read moreThe Diary of Rosamond Jacob: Witness to the Aftermath of the Rising
The rising on Easter Monday passed unnoticed by the Waterford activist, Rosamond Jacob. Her diary entry for 24 April reads: &lsquo...
Read moreRTÉ Reflecting the Rising
This bank holiday Easter Monday, Dublin city centre, north and south, will be transformed by the biggest public history and...
Read moreThe Catholic Church and the Easter Rising
From the viewpoint of Catholic moral teaching the 1916 Rising cannot be regarded as just. At the time churchmen were divided...
Read moreIrish-America and the 1916 Rising
From the time of the 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion, Irish-Americans supported Irish freedom. Throughout the 19th century, that support took many...
Read moreWomen of the Rising: Activists, fighters & widows
What we know of women’s participation in the Rising has been transformed by the material released from the...
Read moreConradh na Gaeilge agus Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916
Nuair a ghabh Óglaigh na hÉireann agus an tArm Cathartha seilbh de lann agus de lasair ar...
Read moreThomas Kent & Cork’s Rising Experience
In the telling of the Easter 1916 story, Cork appears only on the margins. The reasons for this are not too...
Read moreThe state, the law and political imprisonment, 1914-1918
In the years 1916 to 1918 the most important legal weapon in the hands of the British state in Ireland, as it...
Read moreThe Gaelic League and the 1916 Rising
When the Irish Volunteers and the Citizen Army seized key buildings in Dublin City centre on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, many,...
Read moreCapital Crime: 1916 and Death Penalty Discourse in Independent Ireland
Given the profound political and, indeed, cultural impact of the executions in the immediate aftermath of the 1916 Rising, it might...
Read moreA 1916 Story: War, Rebellion & Frederick Hamilton Norway
Frederick Hamilton Norway was born in Ealing, Middlesex on 31 October 1895, the eldest son of Arthur Hamilton Norway and Mary Louisa...
Read moreEva Gore-Booth, Constance Markievicz and ‘The Death of Fionavar’
The Death of Fionavar was published in late 1916, and is Eva Gore-Booth’s response, through the medium of Irish...
Read moreSuppressing the Rebellion: The British Forces in 1916
In many accounts of the Rising those forces opposing the rebels are simply referred to as ‘the British’....
Read moreMaterial Culture and 1916
Material culture usually means objects, spaces and ways of interacting with the world; it can involve architecture, artefacts, rituals or...
Read moreWeapons of the 1916 Rising
By 1916 the general public had begun to realise that World War One was going to be a different type of...
Read moreLiterature and 1916
One of the enduring ideas about the 1916 Rising is that it was a ‘poets’ revolt’. This may...
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The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago.