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The Fingal Old IRA Commemorative Society with Sean Boylan jnr at the Commemoration for Sean Boylan snr on the 50th anniversary of his death, which took place at Loughsallagh Cemetery, Co Meath. Photograph: John Ohle

Sean Boylan snr’s role in War of Independence marked in Co Meath

John Donohoe
October 24, 2021

Father of All-Ireland-winning former Meath manager was active in struggle for freedom

Scientists say a new type of dating technique using a long-ago solar storm as a reference point revealed that the settlement was occupied in 1021 AD. Illustration: Moment/Getty

Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago

October 21, 2021

New type of dating technique reveals Viking settlement was occupied in AD 1021

Pronsías O’Rathaille, grandson of Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, and James Connolly Heron, great grandson of James Connolly, unveiling a plan for the preservation and development of Moore Street in Dublin 1. Photograph: Alan Betson

Alternative plans for Moore Street proposed by 1916 rising relatives’ group

Olivia Kelly
October 7, 2021

Campaigners say opportunity exists to avoid another ‘failure’ similar to Wood Quay development

St Conleth’s College in Ballsbridge, Dublin. The school’s website says it planned to build ‘state-of-the-art laboratory facilities’ and larger classrooms and art facilities. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Plans for development at St Conleth’s College rejected by city council

Olivia Kelly
October 5, 2021

Redevelopment of historic coach house at Dublin 4 school ‘tokenistic’ and ‘crude’

Members of the Irish delegation at the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921. A conference is being held in University College Cork addressing the centenary of the agreement. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

British society suffers ‘amnesia’ over Anglo-Irish Treaty, conference hears

Ronan McGreevy
October 1, 2021

Historian claims deal enabling Irish independence ‘not given significance it deserves’

Fossil footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Human footprints found in New Mexico are about 23,000 years old, a study reported, suggesting that people may have arrived long before the Ice Age’s glaciers melted. Photograph: David Bustos/The New York Times

23,000-year-old footprints shed new light on humans’ arrival in the Americas

Carl Zimmer
September 24, 2021

Footprints in New Mexico suggest people may have arrived long before ice-age glaciers melted

Erwin Schrödinger with Mgr Paddy Browne, who was a close friend despite the physicist’s unusual family life

Schrödinger’s Dublin: Cycling in the trail of exiled physicist

Joe Humphreys
September 20, 2021

Cultural commute takes in sites associated with his 17-year stay in Ireland

Trevor White, director of the Little Museum of Dublin: ‘One of our challenges is to make people look at themselves anew.’ Photograph: Simon O’Connor

Starting a museum: 10 lessons I learned in 10 years

Trevor White
September 11, 2021

The Little Museum of Dublin, founded in 2011, is the people’s museum of the capital

Stasi material at the headquarters of the East German state security apparatus in Normannenstrasse, Berlin. The material includes files on individuals as well as jars in which odour examples from individuals were preserved. Photograph: PF Hullstein bild via Getty Images

Accessible Stasi archive offers a model for Catholic Ireland’s troubled past

Derek Scally
September 4, 2021

Ireland’s approach to its problematic past with religious orders jars with how East Germans took ownership of their shameful secret police files

David Greene from Dublin City Council has been inspecting the tunnels under Dublin for 49 years. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd.

Underground Dublin: A pilgrimage through an ancient tunnel network

Patrick Freyne
September 4, 2021

Patrick Freyne explores the capital’s little-known subterranean river network

Kevin Devlin stands on the pitch at St Enda’s GAA club in Glengormley which is named after his brother Gerry, who was killed by a loyalist gunman at the club in 1997. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker

GAA and the Troubles: Remembering club members killed in the conflict

Freya McClements
September 4, 2021

‘We’re remembering everyone equally – their politics, or who killed them, is irrelevant’

Charles Haughey in 1989: His father’s allegiance to the Free State side was said to have enraged Frank Aiken, and “this greatly influenced Aiken’s detestation of Haughey’s son whom he saw as a “Free Stater” opportunist in Fianna Fáil clothes”. Photograph Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Charles Haughey’s Civil War trauma: ‘The country owes them more than starvation’

Diarmaid Ferriter
August 28, 2021

The war created a generation of lifelong politicians and ultimately shaped Charles J Haughey

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations. Photograph: Alfio Giannotti/Pompeii Archeological Park via AP

Pompeii discovery: Human remains in tomb are best-preserved ever found in ruins

Angela Giuffrida
August 17, 2021

Former slave who rose through social ranks interred at Porta Sarno necropolis before AD79

The house had gone on the market in 2018 for €450,000 but was withdrawn. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times

2:31 Council purchase of Seán O’Casey’s last Dublin home stalls

Olivia Kelly
August 17, 2021

Dispute among owners understood to have halted sale of playwright’s house to city council

Graffiti on the Falls Road, Belfast. Photograph: Alex Bowie/Getty

Internment: ‘A brush shaft up my backside and cigarettes on my eyelids’

Susan McKay
July 31, 2021

Survivors recall the horrors of the policy introduced in Northern Ireland 50 years ago

Empty stalls on Moore Street during the Covid-19 lockdown in January. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Department of Housing criticises Moore Street redevelopment plan

Olivia Kelly
July 26, 2021

Extent of demolition for ‘Dublin Central’ mixed retail site ‘unwarranted’

Frederick Douglass: escaped slavery and became a prominent abolitionist, orator and writer. Photograph: MPI/Getty Images

Frederick Douglass walking trail unveiled in Cork to highlight links to anti-slavery activist

Olivia Kelleher
July 22, 2021

Orator visited Ireland in 1845 to build support for the abolitionist cause in America

The main entrance at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. Photograph: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

When is the history of the Holocaust relevant today?

Hugh Linehan
July 17, 2021

Hugh Linehan: There may be times when the lessons of the genocidal past are worth recalling, but not this time Mattie McGrath

Irish emigrants embarking for America at Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850. From The Illustrated London News, July 1850. Photograph: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images.

The doctor who saved thousands of Irish lives but lost his own

Ronan McGreevy
July 17, 2021

Toronto’s Dr Grasett Park will honour a doctor who died treating Irish famine victims

The Irish in London kept vigil outside 10 Downing Street on July 21st, 1921, while de Valera met Lloyd George. Photograph: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images

When Lloyd George met de Valera: ‘Why do you insist upon Republic? Saorstat is good enough'

John Bowman
July 10, 2021

Frances Stevenson’s diary on the Lloyd George-de Valera summit of 1921 offers rare insights

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