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To mark the 100th anniversary of Ireland’s Easter Uprising, SundanceTV gives us “Rebellion,” a three-part miniseries, which sounds like a terrific idea.
Ireland’s version of the Fourth of July was born that Easter Monday, and this year, for the 100th anniversary of the rebellion, Dublin is drawing an international audience — and even Hollywood ...
Mike Connolly has been interested in Irish history and culture since he was a kid growing up in Portland. Now a history professor at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, in Standish, he will lead a ...
Easter Monday also marked the 90-year anniversary of the Easter Rising, when a small group of people in Ireland fought and died for freedom. Many scholars call this rebellion of Irish civilians ...
Ireland's Easter uprising in pictures Somewhere between photojournalism and propaganda, pictures of the failed revolt helped Irish nationalism ultimately triumph. Share. Jan 28th 2016 | 4 min read.
Sundance miniseries, an Irish co-production, marks the 100th anniversary of the bloody event. 'Rebellion' is soapy story of Ireland's Easter Rising Skip to main content Skip to main content ...
On the morning of Easter Monday 1916, Irishman Patrick Pearse lead a band of 1,250 civilian rebels in Dublin on what amounted to a suicide mission.Before leaving home, he told his mother as much.&#… ...
Roger Casement, a leader of the 1916 rebellion who was executed for treason in August of that year, said that the cause of Ireland was also the cause of India, because the Easter rebels were ...
The Easter uprising, considered the spark that launched Ireland's long fight for independence from Great Britain, is coming up on its centennial. And, believe it or not, there's a bit of a ...
Donald Deignan, president of the Irish Famine Memorial Committee, will speak about Roger Casement, a key figure in the Easter uprising, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Irish Ceilidhe Club, followed by ...