WASHINGTON — From Brussels to Boise, President Joe Biden has relied on the same line of Irish poetry to talk about a changing world. Biden has quoted “Easter, 1916” by W.B. Yeats seven times since ...

An excerpt from IrishCentral founder Niall O’Dowd’s book A New Ireland, which tells of the incredible role that gay women played in the 1916 Easter Rising and how they were airbrushed out of history.

Constance escaped execution for her role in the Easter 1916 uprising and later became the first woman elected to the British Parliament. I imagined Yeats in one of the old chairs, his hands resting on ...

Ireland's War of Independence is sometimes confused with the 1916 Easter Rising - the two are different but related. The conflict between British forces and Irish volunteers escalated in earnest in ...