The Letters of 1916 project is the first public humanities project in Ireland. It is creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Ri

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While final preparations were being made for a rebellion, the war effort continued in the trenches and on the Irish Home Front. In Ahascragh, Lady Clonbrock spent April 1916 admini

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While the Easter Rising was just one event which took place in Ireland’s turbulent year of 1916, the Rising itself has left a remarkably large historical record. While we may not h

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1916 in Ireland is often recognized as a tumultuous year marked by milestone events in the nation’s history, such as the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme. But through all

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