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 ...

There are antiques in there that can’t be replaced by money or God.” “The castle is on fire!” the three women said as they ...

Rare footage of Michael Collins in uniform has been revealed ... This film was shot at Portobello Barracks in Dublin in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. Shortly afterward Collins would be dead ...

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 ...

The nation is plunged into grief after the news of the death of Michael ... (now Collins Barracks) in Cork shortly after it was abandoned by Republican forces during the Civil War.

Now comes the centenary point when our freedom fighters split and killed one another in a bitter civil war. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news ...

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 ...