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OUTSIDE OF Dublin, County Galway saw the most significant action of the 1916 Rising, and Galway's role in 1916, as well as the War of Independence and the Civil War, will be examined in a major new exhibition.

Robbie O’Connor and Aisling O’Mara present an acclaimed dramatisation of the beginnings of the Easter Rising in Rebel Rebel at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday, April 25.

HOW DID the lawyer who prosecuted the 1916 leaders end up in one of the highest positions in the Free State? Why were 280,000 women denied the vote in the Treaty Election of 1922? And why does Michael Collins' assassination remain shrouded in mystery?

Robbie O’Connor and Aisling O’Mara present an acclaimed dramatisation of the beginnings of the Easter Rising in Rebel Rebel at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday April 25.

FOR ITS own reasons, the State chose to celebrate the 1916 Rising a month shy of the actual date of the event itself, which took place in April 1916, not March.

A Galway based imam has called on imams across Ireland to unite in condemning the terrorist attacks in Brussels where bomb blasts at an airport and subway station have left more than 30 dead.

Just a few weeks after the Irish Volunteers were formed in Dublin, a meeting was set up in the Town Hall on December 12th, 1913 to establish a Volunteer force in Galway. There was a lot of excitement and expectation as Eoin McNeill, Roger Casement and Pádraic Pearse told the packed hall that their main objective was to win Home Rule but the movement was also formed to protect them from the Ulster Volunteers. The meeting, which was chaired by George Nicholls, was a major success and some 600 men joined up that evening.

THE LIVES of combatants and civilians during the 1916 Rising, and a teacher determined to expose a classroom thief, make up the two films the Galway Film Society screens in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday.

ON THE morning of September 25 1915, 75,000 British soldiers emerged from their trenches on the Western Front to begin what was then the biggest battle in British history, the Battle of Loos. It would also be the British army’s bloodiest day of the war so far.