"All these highs and lows

Sixteen British soldiers were in the GPO during the Easter Rising, writes Wesley Boyd

My grandfather's time in the GPO was part of a lifelong struggle, writes Eoin Ryan.

Home Rule would have made us dependent; we got out from under British rule just in time, writes Garret FitzGerald.

It was essentially nascent fascist sentiments which drove the leaders of the 1916 Rising, writes Lord Laird.

Eamon de Valera died 30 years ago on Monday

Eoin Neeson writes about one of the most tragic and controversial events in modern Irish history

Roger Casement was gay. He loved men

Giant furniture, ho-hum paintings, and a curatorial reshuffle: the Mac, Belfast’s ambitious new arts centre, needs a clear direction…

THE NOTION that the nationalist community in Belfast during the 1920s was subjected to a pogrom does not stand up, it was argued…

Sir, – Further to your recent correspondence referring to John Redmond, perhaps it should be recorded that Michael Davitt (not…

COMMEMORATIONS: THERE DOES not have to be a consensus about historical commemorations, Prof Diarmaid Ferriter told the Burren…

Sir, – John Bruton’s naivety is astounding (Opinion, April 17th)

Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast

IRISH CRUISE specialists have a bad feeling about plans by an Australian billionaire to offer cruises on a replica of the Titanic…

FORMER TAOISEACH John Bruton yesterday unveiled a monument erected at Woodenbridge, Co Wicklow, to mark the speech which John…

THERE IS an extent to which commemoration and celebration are inevitably one

POLITICIANS Éamon de Valera and John Dillon had a jaundiced view of the women’s suffrage movement, historians recounted at a …

Sir, – The Irish Times is to be congratulated on its commitment to furthering discussion of the events that transformed Ireland…

A CEREMONY held just after dawn in Dublin yesterday marked the 97th anniversary of Anzac Day, when Australian and New Zealand…

MINISTER FOR Tourism Leo Varadkar says he has asked Fáilte Ireland to carry out a study to assess whether the upper end of Dublin…

THE OPPORTUNITY to foster reconciliation and deepen mutual understanding provided by the current decade of centenaries should…

HISTORY: Many falsehoods persist about the fatal voyage of ‘Titanic’, including the notion that all first-class passengers were…

Sir, – While I wholeheartedly agree with Eoghan McSwiney’s (April 14th) analysis of John Redmond, I feel he is rather unfair…

COBH: LOCALS IN Cobh, Co Cork, placed 1,517 white roses in the sea yesterday in memory of the passengers and crew who perished…

EXPLORER'S VIEW: THE TITANIC would never survive being raised from the ocean bed, but more people should be able to visit her…

THE MOOD turned solemn in Belfast at the weekend as the city remembered the human cost of the Titanic sinking.

A minute's silence was held today as a memorial was opened in Belfast marking the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic.

MURIEL MARTIN and her daughter Lorna are on holidays from Australia retracing the route of the Titanic from Belfast to Southampton…

THE WRAPS came off a Co Mayo community’s most closely guarded secret yesterday when a 76ft model of the Titanic was launched …

One hundred years ago this weekend, ‘Titanic’ sank after being struck by an iceberg

OPINION: ON APRIL 11th, 1912 – 100 years ago – the Third Home Rule Bill was presented, for the first time, to the House of Commons…

Sir, – Your Editorial (April 7th) claims a steerage Titanic baby, the late Millvina Dean, was “the pet of the liner during the…

CROBHINGNE: NÍOR CHUIR mé suim rómhór riamh sna scannáin a bhain leis an Titanic mar bhí a fhios agam cén chríoch a bhí leo…

THE DECISIVE impact of the third Home Rule Bill on the history of Ireland over the past century was the theme of the first official…

Sir, – Your Editorial (“Redmond’s moment”, April 11th) asks us to remember the “massive, excited demonstrations” at which Irish…

ONE HUNDRED years to the day when 123 people boarded the Titanic at Cobh, the ship’s last port of call, President Michael D Higgins…

IT WAS a quid pro quo, driven by pragmatic political arithmetic rather than ideology or principle, but all the more remarkable…

ADVERSE WEATHER conditions delayed the arrival of the Titanic Memorial Cruise to Cobh yesterday with the liner not docking in…

A MAYO community that lost the cream of its youth in the Titanic tragedy brought their departure from the village vividly back…