Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill will deliver the oration at Béal na Bláth later this summer to mark the 103rd ...

When Michael ... War. The first phase of the Civil War was ended, O’Donoghue later wrote. He and many others recognised at this point that the IRA/Republicans could not win the war, and that ...

In April 1923 the Irish Civil War was effectively over ... One, the Slievenamon, accompanied Michael Collins on his fateful last trip which ended at Beal na Bláth. It was rescued, refurbished ...

The history of Glendaars House in Straffan, Co Kildare is closely intertwined with that of the Irish Free State. Its rich and interesting past dates back over 100 years ago to a time of great ...

One hundred and sixty years after word reached Galveston, Texas, that enslaved African Americans were now free, the city is ...

In the summer, you can read books in a hammock, you can read them by the sea, you can read them on your porch, you can read ...

A teacher has given his first reaction to this year's Leaving Cert history exams, which students completed on Wednesday ...

As the Queen stood at attention as the Irish national anthem was played, many Dubliners observed that they wouldn’t be surprised if the ghost of Michael Collins, just across the way at Vaughan ...

senator Michael McDowell took a sideswipe at those of us who worked in RTÉ current affairs at the height of the Provisional IRA’s war against the Irish people. In doing so he distorted the ...

On Sunday, June 8, a commemoration was held in Tyone graveyard, Nenagh, to mark the 75th anniversary of the passing of Denis ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

Gap between the haves and have-nots in Irish society is beginning to be defined generationally as our ageing politicians look ...