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


From the Archives: April 18th, 1949

The country was declared a republic on this date – Easter Monday – with 21-gun salutes fired from O’Connell Bridge in Dublin, from Dún Laoghaire pier, and in Cork city centre






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