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 ...

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

Actress and author Dame Joan Collins has joined Dempsey And Makepeace star Michael Brandon for the release of his memoir.The 92-year-old former Dynasty star joined US actor Brandon, 80, who played ...

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

This film was shot at Portobello Barracks in Dublin in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. Shortly afterward Collins would be dead, gunned down at Beal Na Blath in his native Cork in a Republican ...

The deaths of Collins and Arthur Griffith – the key Irish signatories of the Anglo-Irish Treaty – in August 1922 during the civil war also benefited the Ulster unionist position on the ...

Irish Civil War: Turbulent days in Cork and Kerry followed the killing of Michael Collins Michael Collins addresses an election meeting. Date unknown, circa 1921.

Michael Collins was killed on August 22, 1922 near Béal na Bláth, Co Cork, during the civil war. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

On November 21, 1920, under the orders of Michael Collins, soldiers of the Irish Republican Army essentially decapitated the “Cairo Gang,” an elite group of British intelligence agents sent to ...

Mr Collins was part of the delegation that signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, leading to a split in the Irish Parliament and to the Irish civil war. Daily Headlines Newsletter ...