For years, Motorhead’s career roared along like a raging juggernaut, as fast as the songs they were famous for writing. But when the venerable speed-metal godfathers unleashed their ninth studio album ...
From the American citizenship of one of the signatories of the Irish proclamation for Independence to the old-fashioned different time zones in the United Kingdom. Surprising facts about the Easter ...
A Scottish-born socialist and trade union activist, Connolly co-founded the Irish Citizen Army to defend workers’ rights after the 1913 Lockout. In early 1916, he threatened to launch his own ...
Forty photos of Dublin after the 1916 Easter Rising were released online by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) in August 2015. They are taken from a bound volume entitled “Ruined Buildings in ...
On the morning of Nov. 8, 1916, the front page of The Herald, in a large print headline, read “Hughes Elected to Presidency; Republicans Carry Both Houses.” The story announced that University alum ...
Queen's University Belfast provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Two Irish events of 1916 – the separatist Easter Rising and the unionist Ulster Division’s experience at the ...
In the newly refurbished interior of the GPO a wall bears the names of all those known to have helped defend the building during Easter Week 1916. The list runs to more than 400 people, and there's ...
A cross-country road trip is a quintessentially American experience. From Jack Kerouac to the Griswold family, millions have loaded up the car and hit the open road. It’s always an adventure, but in ...