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

When Michael Collins left Dublin on 20 August 1922, ... but who was neutral in the Civil War. ... The British press acknowledged Collins’s part in the struggle for Irish freedom.

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.

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 ...

Tracing the steps of the Easter Rising fighter and famed revolutionary around his haunts that remain in Dublin city today. Follow our expert's step-by-step guide to Michael Collins’ Dublin.

Madam — In last week’s Sunday Independent (May 25) 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 ...

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 ...