Organisation: Volunteer

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RNLI lifeboat assists four stranded divers off Donegal coast

The volunteer crew of Bundoran RNLI lifeboat were called to assist four people on a dive boat this afternoon.

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English woman’s diary vividly portrays honour of the 1916 rebels

Recorded in a copybook is a telling account of the Rising and the rebels’ principles, writes Jane Maxwell

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The Kingdom, the capital and the empire: The role of the Kerry and Dublin GAA in the 1916 Rising

A hundred years to the day that Patrick Pearse stepped on to O’Connell Street and proclaimed an Irish Republic, the GAA will hold its extravagant commemoration of the most seminal moment in modern Irish history. 

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How the Fingal battalion created a template for guerilla warfare

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Anything that could go wrong did go wrong in Kerry

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A week of order, counter order, and disorder in Cork

Enniscorthy’s outgunned rebels fight losing battle

The spirit of 1798 was the inspiration for the Rising in Enniscorthy, which, despite the lack of arms proved to be one of the more remarkable episodes of the week, writes Conor McNamara

Mon, 21 Mar, 2016

Seán MacDiarmada devoted life to freedom

Seán MacDiarmada overcame polio to produce a masterplan for the 1916 Rising , writes historian Brian Feeney

Mon, 14 Mar, 2016

Volunteer Lucie and a growing army of teens are giving a helping hand

Helen O’Callaghan on a teen’s early start in volunteering   

Sat, 28 Nov, 2015

Thomas Kent’s death must be central to 1916 commemorations

Journalist and historian, Kevin O’Brien, suggests that almost a hundred years after his death, Thomas Kent is making us look into our past in new ways as the nation prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the event which sparked the birth of the Irish Republic.

Fri, 26 Jun, 2015

MacNeill’s bid to call off Rising fetches €30k at auction

Almost like the event itself, it nearly didn’t happen, but a private collector has paid €30,000 for a letter in which Irish Volunteers commander Eoin MacNeill tried to call off the 1916 Rising.

Wed, 16 Apr, 2014

The Volunteer leader whose name has been invoked in support of other’s prejudices

JUST over 99 years ago, on September 4, 1907, John Redmond declared in a speech at the Mansion House in Dublin:

Mon, 11 Sep, 2006

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