A Jesuit priest whose father was a leader in Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising has died. Fr Joseph Mallin, who was 104, died on Easter Sunday in Hong Kong. His father, Commandant Michael Mallin, was in command of the Irish Citizen Army at St Stephen’s Green during Easter week 1916. Michael was executed by a firing Read more
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This week marks the centennial of the Easter Rising – the armed insurrection that would trigger nationalist Ireland’s final battle for independence from Great Britain. The first of July will mark another centennial, that of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles in human history, in which over 3,500 Irish soldiers were Read more
Dublin archdiocese is trying to improve access to St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Easter Sunday this year, after a traffic cordon was imposed. The city centre will be closed to all vehicles from 6am on Easter Sunday until 8pm that night, as events take place to commemorate the 1916 Easter rising. A spokeswoman for the archdiocese Read more