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The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD, has today (Monday) said that her Department is focussing on a range of sectors and initiatives to help boost job creation as part of the Action Plan for Jobs 2016, including investment in major cultural infrastructure projects...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr. Charlie Flanagan TD, will today (Wednesday) begin a short visit to New York to formally launch the ambitious 1916 Rising Commemoration Programme of events that will take place across the United States this year...

A Uachtarain agus a dhaoineuaisle uile. On Easter Monday 1916, at the commencement of the Rising, on the steps of the GPO, Padraig Pearse read out the following opening lines of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic...

The President, Michael D Higgins and the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD will today (Friday) lead the first State ceremonial event to mark the beginning of the centenary year, as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme....

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will today lead the first State ceremonial event to mark the beginning of the centenary year, as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme....

Minister for the Diaspora, Jimmy Deenihan TD, will today (Friday 1 January) join Government colleagues at the flag raising ceremony in Dublin Castle to mark the start of the 2016 State Ceremonial Programme...

In a special message to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, President Michael D. Higgins evokes the events and people of 1916, whose beliefs and actions make it possible for us, as a nation, to remember and reflect on the full richness of our history and the diversity of people and events that are part of what we are today...

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD, has today (Wednesday) said that the National Archives of Ireland is making final preparations for the release of the State papers and records from 1985, the year the Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed...

Simon Harris TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) this morning, (21 December), welcomed the eight winners of the...

An event to mark the start of the State Ceremonial Programme in 2016 will take place in Dublin Castle on January 1st 2016...