Shortly after noon on Easter Monday 1916, Pádraig Pearse accompanied by an armed guard, stood on the steps of the GPO and ...

President Michael D Higgins has led the commemoration ceremony at the GPO in Dublin to mark the anniversary of the 1916 ...

As of February 28 last, there were 565 women in the Army, Navy and Air Corps out of a combined force of 7,502 - representing a mere 7.5 per cent of the total Irish military. The figures were ...

A Bletchley Park codebreaker who “inspired women in the Army for decades” has died at the age of 101. Charlotte “Betty” Webb MBE, who was one of the last surviving codebreakers from ...

the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and ...

The Sudanese army shelled parts of Khartoum’s twin city ... They didn’t respect anybody including women and old men,” said Ahmed Hassan (49), a teacher, by phone. The war has ruined much ...

She also said: “It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Court,” adding: “I’m so proud to know you.” ...

He apologised and withdrew the reference for Kielan Mooney from Londonderry who was jailed for eight and half years for raping a woman who was also in the Irish army. Following his suspension ...

The previous year, a vocal commentator on sexual immorality, the Jesuit priest Richard S Devane, had suggested that as long as the British army garrison was in Dublin, “it was impossible to deal ...

Dublin's Monto was Europe's biggest red-light district from 1860 to 1925 with up to 1,600 sex workers at any one time, writes ...