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Purdue All-American marching band, at the St Patrick’s Festival 2018 parade in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Back in showbiz: St Patrick’s Festival marches Ireland back to normal
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • March 12, 2022

Entertainment industry says audiences are returning but skill shortages pose challenges

Bloodied and shaken Tom McFarlane is lead away from the scene of the bombing Abercorn bomb, 50 years on: ‘She went for a coffee and never came home’
  • Simon Carswell
  • March 4, 2022

The random bombing of a popular Belfast restaurant in 1972 had a devastating impact

Rio de Janeiro: Royal Navy sailor David Cuthbert, who arrived in the city 50 years ago on board the HMS Triumph, was shot dead by a group of left-wing guerrillas to show “solidarity with the combatants in Ireland”. Photograph: iStock When Bloody Sunday came to Brazil: ‘The motivation was the massacre in Ireland’
  • Tom Hennigan
  • February 27, 2022

How a young Royal Navy cook was gunned down in Rio days later by left-wing guerrillas

Children  on the Shankill Road, Belfast,  1972 play on a boarded up street under loyalist graffiti. Photograph:  Alex Bowie/Getty Why don’t we remember the Weaver Street massacre in Belfast?
  • Cormac Moore
  • February 13, 2022

Described as the worst atrocity since ‘Herod slew the innocents’ four girls and two women were murdered

Willie and Nelly Reilly outside their traditional wagon in Cashel, Co Tipperary. Photograph: Diarmuid Greene Wagon life: Recording the oral history of Traveller elders
  • Martin Beanz Warde
  • February 12, 2022

Video project is a race against the clock to capture the many details of a vanishing era

The Custom House, Dublin city, circa 1860s New visitor centre at Custom House explores a wealth of history
  • Gemma Tipton
  • February 12, 2022

The Custom House is seen as one of the most important buildings in Dublin

Dorothy Day in 1965. The anarchist writer and activist often reacted negatively when people praised her as saintlike. Photograph: Judd Mehlman/NY Daily News via Getty Images Will the Catholic Church canonise a left-wing activist?
  • Liam Stack
  • January 25, 2022

As the church ponders her sainthood, Dorothy Day’s radicalism is ‘reduced’ to sin

People confront British soldiers on William Street in Derry minutes before paratroopers opened fire, killing 14 civilians on what became known as Bloody Sunday. File photograph: Getty Bloody Sunday is still damaging the British Army. And that’s a choice it continues to make
  • Denis Staunton
  • January 22, 2022

‘It is not approaching this ... failure in its past and taking the opportunity to learn from it’

Fr Edward Daly waves a blood-stained handkerchief as men carry the fatally injured Jackie Duddy on Bloody Sunday, January 30th, 1972. Photograph: Stanley Matchett He shouted: ‘Help! This wee boy’s dying.’ The soldiers started clapping
  • Freya McClements
  • January 22, 2022

Bloody Sunday, 50 years on: A blood-stained handkerchief remains a powerful symbol

Bernadette Devlin talks to reporters in 1972 after she slapped British home secretary Reginald Maudling for claiming that the British soldiers involved in Bloody Sunday had acted in self-defence. Photograph: Frank Barratt/Getty Bloody Sunday: Timeline of an atrocity and its long legal aftermath
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • January 22, 2022

From the civil rights background of the fatal march through to Widgery and Saville inquiries

British soldiers stand behind an armoured water cannon and armoured cars as tensions rise on Bloody Sunday in Derry. Photograph: William L Rukeyser/Getty Phil Coulter on Bloody Sunday: ‘You just felt the whole city had been violated’
  • Freya McClements
  • January 22, 2022

The consequences of that day left a lasting impact on the lives of the people of Derry

Bloody Sunday witness Paddy Walsh creeping towards Patrick Doherty. Lord Saville concluded he had "no doubt" Doherty was shot dead by Soldier F as he tried to crawl to safety. Photograph: Gilles Peress/Magnum Fintan O’Toole: Bloody Sunday, the 10-minute massacre that lasted decades
  • Fintan O'Toole
  • January 22, 2022

Far more people died because of Bloody Sunday than those who were murdered on the day

Arthur Griffith was the chief negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and its most redoubtable champion. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Letter showing how Arthur Griffith foresaw his death made public
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • January 17, 2022

New exhibition tells personal story of four key figures in the Irish revolution

Kevin O’Higgins, Michael Collins (marked with an ‘x’) and Éamonn Duggan leaving Dublin Castle after the British ‘handover’,  on January 16th 1922. Photograph:  Joseph Cashman, NL1 Civil War Prints, NPA CIVP4; courtesy of the National Library of Ireland ‘Epochal’ – how The Irish Times reported the handover of Dublin Castle, 100 years ago today
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • January 15, 2022

Britain’s 1922 ‘surrender’ of Dublin Castle to Michael Collins was a hugely symbolic moment

‘I owe my life to Paddy’: Mayo pub mystery unlocks the spirit of a small town
  • Fiona Murphy
  • January 13, 2022

Her late father religiously stopped at one Swinford pub, she finally solved the puzzle

Daniel O’Connell’s death bed, now on display at Derrynane House. Photograph: Derrynane House State papers: Curious case of Daniel O’Connell’s ‘missing’ death bed
  • Alison Healy
  • December 30, 2021

Difficult end for Liberator, but he ‘died as an infant sinks upon his mother’s breast to sleep’

Roger Casement leaving court in London before being returned to prison in 1916. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Discovery of export of Casement pistols to US caused alarm in 1991
  • Alison Healy
  • December 30, 2021

Department of the Taoiseach and National Museum notified after letter from gun collector

Dun Leary House at corner of Dun Leary Hill. A new proposal aims to add four storeys to the protected structure. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill 3:26 Build-to-rent plans for Dún Laoghaire yellow brick house
  • Olivia Kelly
  • December 6, 2021

Developer wants to remove roof and add four storeys to protected 19th-century property

British PM David Lloyd George privately said he would rather resign  than coerce Ireland. Photograph: Bettmann Archive What did David Lloyd George mean by ‘immediate and terrible war’?
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • December 5, 2021

British prime minister’s threat is phrase most associated with Anglo-Irish Treaty talks

The Irish peace delegation shortly after arrival at the Grosvenor Hotel in London in  1921. Photograph: National Museum of Ireland Treaty Timeline: from beginnings to a Republic
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • December 4, 2021

From Lloyd George’s invitation in 1921 to declaration of republic two decades later

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2 Beatrice Blyth, right, of the Liverpool Vigilance Association, a group of housewives organised to fight vice, greets new arrivals from Ireland in May 1958.  Ann Hughes (18), Noreen Byrne (18) Rose Maguire (19) and Irene Mullen (19) all from Dundalk, Co Louth,  were bound for London to train as nurses. Photograph:  Charlie Owens/Mirrorpix/Getty Images Diarmaid Ferriter: How the Irish became Britain’s oldest, loneliest ethnic group

3 The Public Records Office adjacent to the Four Courts held records going back to the 13th century which were destroyed in a massive explosion on June 30th, 1922 Centuries of documents burned in the Four Courts in 1922. Now they’re being recreated

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5 Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision in Marvel’s WandaVision. Photograph: Marvel Studios Neil Jordan: In defence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

6 Michelle Yeoh attends the opening night premiere of Everything Everywhere All At Once during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals at The Paramount Theatre on March 11th in Austin, Texas. Photograph: Rich Fury/Getty Images for SXSW Michelle Yeoh: ‘I always wanted children, but unfortunately, physically, I’m not able to’

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