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Sean O’Casey’s last residence at 422 North Circular Road, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

3:12 Sabina Higgins leads charge for arts centre at Sean O’Casey house

Olivia Kelly
July 20, 2020

Dublin City Council is buying house for homeless accommodation

The house had gone on the market in 2018 for €450,000 but was recently offered for sale for €625,000 despite its condition having deteriorated in the intervening years. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

3:42 Seán O’Casey’s house to be bought by Dublin City Council

Olivia Kelly
July 9, 2020

Council has revived plans to use playwright’s house for homeless accommodation

Irish ambassador to Spain Síle Maguire and the Mayor of Valladolid Oscar Puente at the dig site. Photograph: Francisco Javier de las Heras

Dig for remains of Red Hugh O’Donnell in Spain reveals 16 skeletons

Ronan McGreevy
July 5, 2020

Archaeologists examine bones for missing toes which would identify Irish leader

Ola Majekodunmi: ‘I cannot imagine my life now without Irish’. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Haigh. I’m a black woman, and I happen to speak Irish

Ola Majekodunmi
July 4, 2020

Black Irish Lives: Gaeilgeoir and broadcaster Ola Majekodunmi on the future of the language

Newgrange passage tomb. Photograph: Ken Williams

Newgrange tomb body belonged to royal-like male ‘born of incest’

Kevin O'Sullivan
June 18, 2020

Trinity College Dublin researchers use DNA sequencing to shed light on ancient culture

The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies at 10 Burlington Road, above, and 24 St Stephen’s Green are two of the youngest buildings in Dublin to secure preservation status. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Preservation order issued for 1970s Dublin blocks

Olivia Kelly
June 8, 2020

24 St Stephen’s Green and 10 Burlington Road added to record of protected structures

No 40, Herbert Park, in Dublin 4, was the home of Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, known as The O’Rahilly, the only leader of the 1916 Rising to die in battle. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

3:02 Plans lodged for demolition of The O’Rahilly house

Olivia Kelly
June 6, 2020

Developers want to replace historic building at Dublin’s Herbert Park with apartments

A Thompson submachine gun: The IRA were the first customers for the gun, designed in 1919 by Gen John T Thompson.

Guerrilla tactics: Arming the IRA

Lar Joye
June 3, 2020

Greatly outnumbered by the crown forces when it came to firepower, the IRA was forced to capture, steal and smuggle weapons

Pte James Joseph Daly of the Connaught rangers was executed on November 2nd, 1920, for leading an attack on the British garrison in Solon, India.

100 years ago: A hurling match, a snub and a refusal to soldier for Britain

Ronan McGreevy
June 28, 2020

The Mutiny of the Connaught Rangers in India was a military failure but a moral victory

Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smiths Professor of Modern History at TCD.

Who was Red Hugh O’Donnell? The ‘fiery’ symbol of Gaelic resistance

Jane Ohlmeyer
June 1, 2020

The discovery of his remains could shed light on a tumultuous chapter of Irish history

Blood on the bog: A brother and sister hanged for an Offaly murder

Dean Ruxton
May 24, 2020

150 years ago, Patrick Dunne’s ‘dying declaration’ helped convict his neighbours of his murder

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