Students  protest against  austerity measures  in Athens  this month. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty

In about 1505 Raphael painted The Three Graces, a study of the young ladies of Greek mythology, traditionally endowed with sincerity and openness. On (...)

Refugees and asylum seekers holds candles to commemorate  12 people killed when  a truck  ploughed into a crowded Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

Refugees in Berlin pleaded with their host nation to avoid placing migrants under a blanket of suspicion after police commandos raided their shelter, (...)

The house in which Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. Photograph:  Leonhard Foeger/Reuters

Austrian government officials have decided to transform the home where Adolf Hitler was born into a base for a charity, and not tear down the property(...)

The house Hitler was born in was siezed by the  Austrian parliament

Following years of concern and speculation, the Austrian parliament has just passed a low allowing it to seize the house where Adolf Hitler was born. (...)

 The cover of Time magazine’s December 19th  issue, featuring US president-elect Donald  Trump, who has been named  the magazine’s 2016  Person of the Year. Photograph: EPA/TIME

Donald Trump saw off Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, Russian president Vladimir Putin and singer Beyoncé Knowles to be named Time magazine’s 2016 Per(...)

Former US Navy Chief Petty Officer Don Higgins, a Pearl Harbour survivor, attends the Freedom Bell Opening Ceremony and Bell Ringing at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Photograph: EPA

It has been 75 years, but US Navy veteran James Leavelle can still recall watching with horror as Japanese warplanes rained bombs down on his fellow s(...)

Adolf Hitler addressing a military parade at a Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. Xenophobia and nationalism are  coursing through the world’s veins. Photograph: Hulton Archive

In the spring of 2010 I received an unlikely invitation from a city in western Ukraine: the law faculty from the university in Lviv (also know as Lwów(...)

Donald Trump, played by Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live, right, was easily the most parodied candidate in US election history and he still won

Satire is a powerful tool for telling the truth. Saturday Night Live sketches parodying Donald Trump have tens of millions of views online. Highligh(...)

Are we still tied to a single narrative of our history? 1916 commemoration at the GPO. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

Has the 1916 centenary commemoration really been a great success? Were those independent-minded media critics, normally scornful of government and al(...)

The young Anne Gannon on her graduation from NUIG and as she is now – the mature centenarian.

When Irish-Argentinian student Anne Gannon graduated from university in Galway, Europe was engulfed by a wave of fascism. Adolf Hitler had become Füh(...)