By Guy Beiner Twenty years before the Easter Rising, a group of revolutionaries took over a public building in a central city of an imperial power and presented political demands on behalf of the nation that they claimed to represent. The results were catastrophic. The event was the seizure of Continue Reading
By Lauren Arrington No one ever seems to ask whether MacDonagh and MacBride, Connolly and Pearse (never mind de Valera and Collins) happened to fire shots at an unarmed individual, policeman or a. But whether Constance Markievicz shot an unarmed constable at St Stephen’s Green is the question on which Continue Reading