The Easter 1916 Irish flag that flew over the GPO during the Easter Rising failed to sell at an auction in New York on Tuesday when it was withdrawn at $400,000, a full $100,000 under its reserve ...

A flag found in the ruins of a building where the 1916 Easter Rising was planned has been returned to Dublin. An uncrowned green harp flag was flown above Liberty Hall by the Irish Citizen Army in ...

1916 Easter Rising flag fails to sell at New York auction Rare Fenian flag to fetch $70,000 at auction-----On Wednesday, Ian Whyte the director of Whyte’s, ...

What: 100th Anniversary of Easter Rising in Ireland, including historical readings and Irish food, music and dance presentations. When: Monday, March 28, 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The centenary of the Easter Rising could trigger a fresh round of “flag wars” in Northern Ireland, an expert has predicted. Dr Dominic Bryan, director of the Institute of Irish Studies at ...

IT is thought to have been the iconic symbol which signified a new Ireland. Now the last full-sized Tricolour flag of the 1916 Rising still in existence is to go under the hammer at a New York ...

His "Easter, 1916" poem, among the most quoted works in all of Irish literature, listed the names of executed Rising commanders and concluded that Ireland had "changed, changed utterly: A terrible ...

A tricolour flag flown by Irish volunteers over their Dublin GPO headquarters during the 1916 Easter Rising is on loan to New York. The flag, which is insured for $1m, was captured by British ...

The best-known flag of the Easter Rising is not the Tricolour that flew over the GPO in 1916 but the Irish Republic one on display at the Proclaiming a Republic exhibition in the National Museum ...

A flag found in the ruins of a building where the 1916 Easter Rising was planned has been returned to Dublin. An uncrowned green harp flag was flown above Liberty Hall by the Irish Citizen Army in ...