1916 Easter Rising
On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
IFI collection features historic newsreels of Michael Collins and the 1916 Rising
The mystery of 1916 leader and New Yorker Éamon de Valera’s birth
On This Day: The last active Fenian, John Devoy, died in 1928
Original copy of 1916 Proclamation among rare items at Irish auction
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Thomas Ashe died in 1917
On This Day: Michael Cusack, the father of the GAA, is born in Co Clare
Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
The Irish rebel, Dan Breen, who lit a revolutionary fire in India, born on this day
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