Ireland was not included in Britain’s conscription bill of January, 1916, but by then 90,000 Irishmen had volunteered, as many more would before 1918.

No one, not the IRA, not Sinn Féin, not Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael, nor any party or organisation, owns or has a monopoly on the Rising or its legacy, writes Danny Morrison.

The legacy of Pearse’s oration at the graveside of O’Donovan Rossa was very fitting for the occasion and shows up the shallowness of contemporary Redmondism.

The former taoiseach does no service to the memory of the Irish dead of World War One by denigrating the men and women of 1916, writes Gerry Adams

Anthony J Jordan tells us that 100 years ago Arthur Griffith advised that a "provisional government be set up in Dublin" by John Redmond and Edward Carson (Letters, August 4).

Arthur Griffith was a member of the Volunteers and at the Howth gunrunning.

In 1937, Irish voters enacted the Constitution, affirming the State’s adherence to pacific settlement of international disputes by international arbitration or judicial determination.

Experience has always been, and remains, one of the very best teachers.

The North must face the inconvenient truth that ending sectarianism will take a long time, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has told his party conference.

THE state should avoid “waving the green flag” and “glamourising the gun” when commemorating the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, former senator Eoghan Harris has said.

WHERE were you on 9/11? What were you doing when you heard about the attack on the Twin Towers?

LIKE any half-decent barrister, TUV leader Jim Allister understands that the people who sit on juries don’t necessarily use their intelligence when making decisions.

THERE’S been a creeping feeling in Ireland lately that maybe we’re not the people we thought we were.

IT is noteworthy that the first days of the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) by Tom Elliott are characterised by what he will apparently not do rather than what he is determined to accomplish.

A new Gaelic games challenge has taken its name from an unlikely source - the founding father of Ulster unionism.

ORANIA, is a small, time-warp village in South Africa’s Northern Cape province; a small speck on the map in the scrubland edging the Karoo.

History has been made at Dublin's Trinity College with the instillation of a set of GAA goalposts at College Park allowing Gaelic games to be played on the city centre campus for the first time in its 418-year history.

Belfast’s “peace walls” are getting an artistic facelift, it was revealed today.

NIALL GINTY (Letters, November 19) and Eoghan Harris (Sunday Independent, November 11) both commented on my letter to you (November 9).

THIS Halloween it may interest readers to learn that a unionist living in Belfast during the War of Independence once thought it appropriate to burn an effigy of de Valera on a bonfire.

The Irish Government is dipping into state coffers to pay for a plaque commemorating one of the founding fathers of Ulster unionism, it was confirmed today.

The Rev Ian Paisley has not approved any movie which is being planned about his life, he insisted today.

EFFORTS to broker agreement among political parties in the North, in my view, are stumbling inexorably towards collapse and, all things considered, this need not necessarily be the worst possible outcome.

ROBIN BURY of the Reform Movement states (Irish Examiner November 8) that “1916 was not mandated.”

WE’RE great men and women on the Ould Sod for lionising our literary giants without knowing the first thing about them.

Former White House hopeful Senator John McCain is to address Trinity College students just days after his country has decided if it wants George W Bush or Senator John Kerry to be President.

THE biggest surprise this week was that people were so surprised when the Belfast gathering to announce a breakthrough in the peace process turned into a fiasco.

THE article on Oscar Wilde’s trial (Irish Examiner, April 24) described Edward Carson as a “steely Ulsterman“.