Sir Roger Casement was committed to trial to face Treason

Extract Cork Examiner 18 May 1916 Roger Casement Committed

After an investigation of only three days the charge of high treason against Sir Roger Casement and the Irish ex-soldier, Daniel Julian Bailey, concluded as far as the Police Court stage is concerned this afternoon with their committal for trial before the Lord Chief Justice. The proceedings ended quite uneventfully, and naturally after Sir John Dickinson had spent the day hearing the statements of a number of witnesses whose evidence was necessary to complete the case for the Crown Continue Reading

The Enniscorthy Easter Rising 05.May.1916

Extract - Belfast Newsletter 05.May.1916 BY PRIVATE WIRE

A correspondent supplies the Press Association with the following account of the events at Enniscorthy: — 
Photo Front: Seamus Rafter, Robrert Brennan, Seamus Doyle, Sean Etchingham,
Back: Una Brennan, Michael de Lacy, Eileen Hegarty

Enniscorthy Rising 1916

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Evening Herald Staff Caught Up In The Rising

Read the below for an incredible story from the 1916 Easter Rising campaign. As the fight spread along the houses and buildings on Abbey Street four staff members from the Evening Herald are caught in the middle...

Thrilling experience of "Herald" hands. Extract - Evening Herald April 26,27,28,29 May 1,2 & 3

UNDER FIRE / SCENES IN ABBEY STREET / Terrible Effects of Shelling by Big Guns

On Thursday , April 26, I and three members of the “Evening Herald” staff were on the premises at 111 Middle Abbey Street, as we had been since the outbreak of the hostilities on Monday. About noon the bombardment of the corners of Abbey street and O’Connell street began. The insurgents at once began to retreat towards Capel Street and Mary Street, investing all the building at the back of the Post Office as far as Liffey street. Continue Reading

Joseph & Grace Plunkett's Doomed Wedding

Grace & Joseph Plunkett's wedding

Grace Gifford became engaged to Joseph Plunkett in 1915 . The wedding was planned for Easter Sunday 1916 - the date of the Rising, which was put down and its leaders sentenced to death. Grace and Joseph Plunkett were married on 3 May in the chapel of Kilmainham Jail, only a few hours before his execution. Continue Reading

Roger Casement Honoured

Today in History one of Ireland greatest figures Roger CASEMENT  was finally mourned. Read the below extract from the Irish Independent 01.03.1965.

THOUSANDS  lined the route from Arbour Hill Church to the Pro - Cathedral, Dublin, yesterday, as the remains of Roger Casement , the man who 48 years ago died a lonely death for his love of Ireland, were carried in a solemn procession.

Today's final ceremonies

Roger Casement Honoured

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1916 Irish News Archives

Welcome to our dedicated 1916 Easter Rising newspaper archive. We have developed this
incredible only resource to share Ireland's most prominent rebellion with the nation. For a limited time only you will be able to gain access to some of Ireland's most prestigious Continue Reading