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Newly graduated Aer Lingus air hostesses on January 24th, 1968, at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Kevin McMahon

Fledgling hostesses in flying form

Arminta Wallace
October 21, 2017

The Times We Lived In: Published: January 24th, 1968. Photograph by Kevin McMahon

Bill Finnigan, director of public relations, Gulf Oil Company Eastern Hemisphere, sponsors of Rose ‘71, speaking at a press conference in the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin. Photograph: Gordon Standing

Reclining figures in life imitating art

Arminta Wallace
October 14, 2017

The Times We Lived In: Published: March 4th, 1971. Photograph by Gordon Standing

Poet and soldier Francis Ledwidge was killed by a German shell on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele, July 31st, 1917. File photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Francis Ledwidge statue to be unveiled in Slane

Ronan McGreevy
October 13, 2017

Meath-born poet and soldier was killed 100 years ago at Battle of Passchendaele

Juan Martin Guevara, brother Che Guevara. Eitan Abramovich/Getty

Che Guevara’s father ‘was more into his Irish than his Basque side’

Ciarán D'Arcy
October 9, 2017

Che Guevara’s brother speaks about family’s Irish and Basque heritage

Alistair Lindsay's restoration of the Shelbourne Hotel’s façades won the Irish Georgian Society’s top award

All spruced up: Shelbourne comes out tops in conservation awards

Frank McDonald
October 7, 2017

Fancroft House in Roscrea and Market House in Stradbally highly commended

Garda Dick O’Connor, on point duty at the McCurtain Street-Bridge Street crossing in Cork in 1954

Early reflections on hill street blues

Arminta Wallace
October 7, 2017

The Times We Lived In: Published; November 27th, 1954. Photograph by Dermot Barry

Ballast House time ball was taken down in 1920. It came from a time when the city were on Dublin time rather than GMT. Photograph: National Library of Ireland

Dubliners could get their big bronze ‘time ball’ back

Olivia Kelly
October 4, 2017

Plan afoot to reinstate historic Ballast House timepiece mentioned in Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’

Shireen seals goodbye with a tear

Arminta Wallace
September 30, 2017

The Times We Lived In: January 27th, 1989. Photograph by Pat Langan

On September 25th, 1917, Thomas Ashe died in the Mater Hospitals from complications arising out of a force feeding regime in Mountjoy Prison. Photograph: National Library of Ireland

How The Irish Times reported the death of Thomas Ashe 100 years ago

Ronan McGreevy
September 25, 2017

‘The funeral was the largest which has been seen in Dublin since that of Mr Parnell’

When Biddy and Miley were lovers

Arminta Wallace
September 23, 2017

The Times We Lived In: September 23rd, 1993. Photograph by Jack McManus

Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, 1857-1939), photographed in February 1922. File photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

Uncovered 1924 paper reveals nuncio’s bias against Irish republicans

Patsy McGarry
September 21, 2017

Vatican emissary satisfied Terence MacSwiney hunger strike ‘seems not supported’

Museum manager Niall Bergin looks over the last stages of the installation of new exhibition Hunger Strike: Ireland 1877-1981 at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. The exhibition charts the use of hunger striking in Irish political culture during pivotal moments in our history. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

The long history of the Irish hunger strike

Hugh Linehan
September 21, 2017

New exhibition in Kilmainham Gaol tells the story from Thomas Ashe to Bobby Sands

Dig-out reveals skeleton in Smithfield

Arminta Wallace
September 21, 2017

The Times We Lived In: April 16th, 2002. Photograph by Brenda Fitzsimons

The Rileys – survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania, Cobh, Co Cork. Meet Annie and Edward Riley, and their twins, Sutcliffe and Ethel. Photograph: AH Poole

Amateur sleuthing helps solve the mysteries of old Irish photos

Hugh Linehan
September 13, 2017

Members of the public helped unpick the National Library’s image collection on Flickr

Councillors in the Tuam area of Co Galway have opted not to remove a memorials to Confederate soldier Richard ’Dick’ Dowling. Image: Wikipedia.

Proposal to remove Tuam plaque to Confederate soldier rejected

Ronan McGreevy
September 11, 2017

Councillor says removal of memorial celebrating Richard Dowling not a ‘top priority’

Waving hello and goodbye to Vermeer

Arminta Wallace
September 9, 2017

The Times We Lived In: March 23rd, 1995. Photograph by Frank Miller

An Taoiseach Leo De Varad being awarded his certificate by An Coimisinéir Teanga Rónán Ó Domhnaill. Photograph: Gaelchultúr

Maith an fear: Taoiseach awarded certificate for Irish language course

Ciarán D'Arcy
September 8, 2017

Course involved a series of three-hour lectures on Wednesday mornings

Dublin City Councillors have voted to pursue Temple Bar hotelier and publican Martin Keane to regain control of city’s Edwardian Iveagh Markets. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Dublin City Council to move to reclaim Iveagh Markets

Olivia Kelly
September 4, 2017

Hotelier Martin Keane’s planning permission granted in 2007 has run out

The Most Rev. Dr Buchanan, Archbishop of Dublin, at the opening of St Andrew’s School, Lucan, Co Dublin. Playing the organ is Mr Sam Adamson

The Times We Lived In: Play it again, Sam

Arminta Wallace
September 2, 2017

Published, November 4th, 1972. Photograph by Dermot O’Shea

Aldborough House on Portland Row, Dublin 1.

Department of Heritage critical of Aldborough House plans

Olivia Kelly
August 29, 2017

Integrity of Georgian architecture could be ‘compromised’ by plans for Dublin 1 property

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