Our friends at Irish Fireside have compiled the  75 Best Irish-Interest Articles and Posts of 2010. Publisher Corey Taratuta is our Ireland Editor - if you've not yet delved into Irish Fireside, pour yourself a Guiness and jump on into their site - it's the next best thing to heading to Ireland.

Ireland's history is haunted by political and social upheaval, and the 20th century is what many are most familiar with today. Before the Troubles of the 1960s through the 1980s and before the Irish Civil War of the 1920s there was the Easter Rising of 1916. This event is important to the understanding of 20th century Irish politics and society.