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Charles Gavan Duffy, Erskine Childers, Robert Barton and Arthur Griffith (London 1921). Photograph: National Library of Ireland

‘The British were braced for failure.’ How the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921 was negotiated

Gretchen Friemann
December 4, 2021

On the Treaty's centenary, Gretchen Friemann pieces together its creation

The Irish delegation on the day that the treaty forming the Irish Free State and partioning the country was signed, (from left) Arthur Griffith, Eamonn Duggan, Erskine Childers, Michael Collins, George Gavan Duffy, Robert Barton and John Chartres. Photograph: Hulton Archive

Who was who during the Treaty negotiations

Ronan McGreevy
December 4, 2021

Michael Collins and Winston Churchill just two of the famous names among delegations

The Cobblestone pub in Smithfield, Dublin

Cobblestone: Pub owner ‘eternally grateful’ as redevelopment plan refused

Shauna Bowers
November 29, 2021

Demolition of part of Dublin traditional-music pub ‘would set an undesirable precedent’

The O’Halloran sisters – Annie, Honoria and Sarah – with a fourth unidentified girl in Bodyke, Co Clare in June 1887. Photograph: National Library of Ireland from Old Ireland in Colour 2

Colourisation of old images enables greater empathy

Daniel Ayiotis
November 22, 2021

Using creative methods to engage with historical footage does not detract from original

The Met Éireann office in Glasnevin. Photograph: Alan Betson

4:30 Met Office and Cadbury’s factory recommended for protection

Olivia Kelly
November 12, 2021

More than 500 additions to Dublin city Record of Protected Structures sought by Minster

The Cobblestone: protest over plan to build over pub. Photograph: Alan Betson

Protest to be held, as 100 objections made over Cobblestone site plans

Olivia Kelly
October 29, 2021

Smithfield scheme exceeds limits on height and plot ratio, Green MEP says

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

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