claimed that those killed were gunmen with the Provisional Irish Republic Army, a paramilitary force fighting against British rule in Ireland. The killings in Ballymurphy coincided with turmoil ...

Events have been held across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to commemorate the Easter Rising. The 1916 ...

About 1,200 Irish rebels rose up against 20,000 British troops in a doomed attempt to throw off centuries of British colonial rule. The Easter Rising may have failed in that moment, but the ...

With the deferral of Home Rule with the ... left to the Irish Parliamentary Party was to act in the increasingly unpopular role of recruiting sergeant to the British army. For advanced ...

Traditionally, the British had been uninterested ... had an idea: the Irish would support Liberal reforms and, in return, a Home Rule Bill for Ireland would be enacted. In April 1912 the ...

The Easter Rising was a rebellion designed to overthrow British rule in Ireland. It was organised and carried out by members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Irish Citizen Army ...