A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy.” Photograph: Aidan Crawley

There has been much recent comment in relation to Ireland’s controversial neutrality during the second World War that suggests a diminishing ra(...)

An English auction house has described as “sensational” the diary kept by a British army officer during the Easter Rising that has come to ligh(...)

A file photo of Brian Shivers who has been acquitted of murdering two British soldiers in Northern Ireland. Photograph: PA

Brian Shivers has been found not guilty of the 2009 Real IRA murders of British soldiers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey. At Belfast Cr(...)

Director Ken Loach in Jim Gralton’s native Co Leitrim last week scouting for locations with a view to shooting the film Jimmy’s Hall in the late summer. Photograph: Matt Carr/Getty Images

Director Ken Loach is to make a film about Jim Gralton, the only Irish man to have been deported from Ireland. Loach wa(...)

Five years ago, Ballynoe House on 50 acres at Ardattin, Co Carlow, was valued at €3.8 million. Today, the estate is for sale by private treaty (...)

Dead lambs lie in the snow as farmers search for trapped sheep in snow drifts in the Aughafatten area of Co Antrim last month. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

Northern farmers and the Stormont Executive are braced for a spiralling bill for large-scale livestock losses following last month’s devastatin(...)

A spokesman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said British army technical experts had been called to the scene.

A man (46) has been arrested in connection with a suspected dissident attack on police in Northern Ireland. Police officers narrowly esc(...)

“If I were to sum up my life, everything has been about love,” Princess Lilian of Sweden once said. In what Swedes consider a Cinderella story,(...)

Ireland has such a soft spot for nobility; earls especially. More than 500 years after the old Gaelic aristocracy sailed from Lough Swilly towa(...)

Charlie Agnew, nephew of John Pat Cunningham,  with the  apology from the British ministry of defence and a picture of Mr Cunningham at a press conference in Belfast yesterday. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA

The British ministry of defence has apologised to the family of a 27-year-old man with a mental dis(...)

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