Several events in Ireland will mark the centenary of the formation of the Irish Volunteers, a military force that participated in some of Ireland’s most critical moments.

The David O. Russell directed quirky romance received nods for its stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in the Best Male and Female Lead categories, along with nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the announcement at the W Hotel Hollywood on Tuesday.

The Irish Independent has launched an e-paper. The new venture features digital replicas of their titles. The e-paper delivers up-to-the-minute news stories directly to the reader – no matter where in the world they are.

PHOTOS - Women and children protesting United States failure to support Irish Independence in 1920 - slideshow

PHOTOS - Women and children protesting United States failure to support Irish Independence in 1920 - slideshow

A unique collection of War of Independence letters were sold at auction in Cork this week, despite calls for the collection to be kept in public ownership.

The Scottish people will vote on independence before 2014 in a deal in Edinburgh arranged by Scottish leader Alex Salmond and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Americans, roughly half or 144 million of them, will head to the polls this November and more than likely pick either one of two candidates to serve as their chief executive for the next four years. The masses will vote for either the Democrat (Barack O’Bama) or the Republican (Mitt Romney) like they have since 1856. Yet, neither seem to be incredibly popular among voters being tied in most national polls.  In this land of true democracy there are over one hundred hopeful presidential nominees on (and off) voting ballots that do not have the money, cache, or websites in some cases, that their bigger and more powerful donkey and elephant counterparts do. 

The 1916 Rising is online – with graphic eye witness accounts now available to the public for the first time.

Majority shareholder Denis O’Brien has tightened his grip on Independent Newspapers, Ireland’s largest media chain after ousting two directors, including the chairman from the board of INM.

Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin, has called for an independent investigation into the abuse of children by Fr Brendan Smyth, saying only a full inquiry would reveal the "full story" of his crimes.

A new row has broken out between tycoon Denis O’Brien and the O’Reilly family in the battle for control of Ireland’s Independent Newspapers group.

I’ll shed no tears that the O’Reilly monopoly on Irish journalism is no more.

The O’Reilly family has all but surrendered power at Ireland’s Independent Newspaper group to telecoms entrepreneur Denis O’Brien.

Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister has claimed the country is on course for a return to economic prosperity in 2013 – but warned of more haircut budgets ahead.

A group of transition-year students in Kenmare, Co Kerry, have discovered a new piece of history that rewrites the conclusion of Ireland’s War of Independence. The students, while conducting research for their transition year project, found that the final act of the War of Independence took place in Killarney, and not in Tipperary as originally thought.

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It is good to learn of the recent news that one of the two original tricolors unfurled at the GPO buildings during the 1916 Easter Rising is now in the good hands of the folk at the American Irish Historical Society Some comment has been raised about such a historically precious artifact, so central to the narrative of Irish independence, belonging on Irish soil, but to raise such heckles is to be totally oblivious to the point that Irish America was also at the heart of this independence movement That the American Irish Historical Society, with its traditional warm welcome and its dedication to the motto of its founding patrons, “That the world may know” now hosts the flag is entirely appropriate The Society’s mission since the time of Teddy Roosevelt’s involvement and before to Thomas Hamilton Murray in the 1880s has been to bring to light the history of the Irish people READ MORE ]]>