Mags Gargan describes how this newspaper reported on the Rising in the weeks after the insurgency
Category: Feature
A divided hierarchy
The Church’s attitude to the Rising was far more complex than newspaper reports suggested at the time, Greg Daly discovers
Dublin diocese under siege of bullets and flames during the Rising
The Dublin diocesan archives offer a fascinating insight into the Easter Rising, writes Noelle Dowling
A golden year
Greg Daly considers aspects of how the Rising was commemorated on its 50th anniversary
‘On an equality with men…’
Though often overlooked, women played a key role in the Rising, writes Greg Daly
The last surviving child of a 1916 leader
Mags Gargan looks at the life of Fr Joseph Mallin SJ
Ministers of mercy
Fr Bryan Shortall tells Greg Daly about the Capuchin experience during the Rising
The Rising’s Capuchins… in their own words
“There was no joking, not even the semblance of it. Poor Colbert was far too beautiful and too reverent a character to joke with anyone in such a solemn hour. I know very well where his heart was then. It was very near to God and to the friends he loved. “What really happened was…
Beating the odds
Bookies’ nemesis Barney Curley speaks to Cathal Barry about how his faith inspired his philanthropy
Can you provide a present for the future?
Fr Brendan Collins of Long Tower Parish in Derry shares his experience of a trip to Tanzania with Children in Crossfire
Mags Gargan
Greg Daly
Courtney McGrail
Cathal Barry