For Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, a historian who is the current Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College, the impact of the Irish Revolution (1916-1923)—like other sweeping historical ...

Laois experienced far more bloodshed during the Civil War than during the War of Independence and the reasons for this are explored. Cormac Moore will launch his book 'Laois. The Irish Revolution, ...

A history of the build-up to the 1916 Easter Rising rebellion in Ireland. (Part 1/2) With Britain engaged in the First World War in Europe, Irish rebels sensed an opportunity. Irish revolutions had ...

After his acquittal in 1981, he became involved in supporting various left-wing causes, including the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and the fight of the African National Congress against ...

Laois historian Cormac Moore officially launched his new book 'Laois The Irish Revolution, 1912-23' in Portlaoise library on ...

Join the IrishCentral Book Club this April as we read the award-winning bestseller "Wounds - A Memoir of War and Love." ...

Ireland's approach to retirement savings is undergoing a momentous overhaul, with the introduction of a €100 billion ($109 ...

Discover the untold story of the woman who defied empires and remained an unyielding champion of Irish independence. At first, Máire was educated privately at home and afterward at a convent school.

is perhaps the most fitting memorial for a man who in his own term was a 'misfit' in the story of the Irish Revolution. That he should be thus forced to disappear from the commemorative story is ...