History
The Anglo Years
February 7th, 2013 | History, Ireland, Politics
A look back at the history of Anglo Irish Bank, from humble beginnings to boom to ultimate bust.
Magdalene Laundries report
February 5th, 2013 | History, Ireland
The ‘Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries’ was published this afternoon. It found “significant” State involvement in the laundries, where some 10,000 women were sent.
Ireland marks presidency of EU
December 31st, 2012 | History, Ireland, Politics
Dublin Castle hosts a ceremony to mark Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the Council of the European Union, along with the 40th anniversary of the Republic’s accession to the entity
Pat Finucane inquiry
December 12th, 2012 | History, Ireland, Politics
Author of report into Pat Finucane murder says he is “left in significant doubt as to whether Patrick Finucane would have been murdered by the UDA in February 1989 had it not been for the different strands of involvement by elements of the state.”
Cuban missile crisis 50 years on
October 16th, 2012 | History, World
It has been 50 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The 13-day crisis began on October 16, 1962, when then-US president John F. Kennedy first learned the Soviet Union was installing missiles in Cuba, barely 145 km off the Florida coast.
Home Rule and Ulster Covenant
October 9th, 2012 | History, Ireland, Politics
An exhibition on Home Rule and the Ulster Covenant, including the background to the covenant signing in 1912, is running at Belfast’s Ulster Museum
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Lebanon
September 15th, 2012 | History, Libya, Photography, Politics, Religion
Pope Benedict urged multi-faith Lebanon to be a model of peace and religious coexistence for the Middle East, which he called a turbulent region that “seems to endure interminable birth pangs”
Blackrock baths
September 3rd, 2012 | Environment, History, Ireland, Property, Uncategorized
Easter Rising revisited
July 17th, 2012 | History, Ireland, Politics, Television
The Easter Rising returned to Dublin this week as a dramatic reconstruction of the first morning of the historic event took place in St Stephen’s Green for a documentary called Seachtar Anaithnid by Abu Media, which will be shown on TG4 next year.
