Was Grace Gifford pregnant when she wed Joseph Plunkett in 1916?
New documentary suggests couple’s hasty marriage may have been to ward off scandal
Rod Stewart: crotch-waggling imp turns misty-eyed troubadour to lead us to singalong heaven
Review: It’s cheese with everything as pop’s great bluesman serenades Dublin’s 3Arena
Rod Stewart: ‘I’m not in the pipe and slipper club yet. I can still go mad’
The 73-year-old rock musician on ice baths, the Easter Rising and his decades of wild days and success
Joseph Plunkett’s Easter Rising medal is back on sale
1916 Proclamation signatory’s award to be auctioned by Whyte’s at a reduced price
Embracing and commemorating events of 1916 throughout the year
Children central to events to mark 100 years since Easter Rising
Áras an Uachtaráin to open for Culture Night 2016
Tickets to be raffled for access to performances and tour in presidential residence
Four more executed Rising leaders remembered at Kilmainham
Plunkett, Daly, O’Hanrahan and Willie Pearse all commemorated
Art houses invoke the forgotten civilian victims of the Easter Rising
Public contribute installations to remember each of the 262 civilians killed in the Rising
The Irish Times in 1916: a newspaper in focus
Today's Irish Times newspaper is a souvenir edition of a 1916 paper that reported the Rising in microscopic detail – and carried some curious advertisements
Martin McGuinness ‘committed to holding event for WW1 dead’
Deputy First Minister says it’s ‘only proper and right’ to honour sacrifice made by Irish
The Joseph Mary Plunkett papers: ‘I was never meant to be so happy’
The youngest of the Proclamation signatories married his fiancee, Grace Gifford, in his prison cell the night before he was executed
Sinn Féin to look at holding events to honour WW1 dead
Vital to remember those Irishmen who died in conflict, says Martin McGuinness
Kilmainham gears up for 100th anniversary of Rising
New visitor centre, bookshop, cafe and interpretive area being developed at gaol
Enhancing at the Crossroads – An Irishman’s Diary about Kilmainham Gaol
‘You’re looking for the gaol, aren’t you?’
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