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Minnie Lenihan. Courtesy of the Brother Allen Collection

Cumann na mBan women had to fight for their pensions

October 2, 2019

The pension files tell us a great deal about how revolutionary Irish women were treated

Hilda Tweedy was chair of the Council for the Status of Women, established in 1973.

‘Ireland at the present crisis specially needs any ties that will bind her to Great Britain’

Una Mullally
September 29, 2019

From the Archive: Proposals to remove Ireland from the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland were met with resistance

John King of Claregalway. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Pipe smoking dogs, and other memories from past Ballinasloe Horse Fairs

Una Mullally
September 22, 2019

The Times We Lived In: Published October 8th, 1924

‘For a smart, charming young woman like Maeve Brennan, able to waltz her way into the pages of Harper’s Bazaar and the New Yorker, the choice between Ireland and exile cannot have required much agonising.’

Maeve Brennan, a writer who was at home in neither Ireland nor America

Una Mullally
September 15, 2019

From the archive: ‘Irish literature’s best-kept secret ... everyone should be reading her’

The 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the moon was marked this year

Why are we so obsessed with anniversaries?

Hugh Linehan
September 14, 2019

Historical and popular culture landmarks offer valuable opportunities to reflect on events

The contents of an American food parcel in December 1946. Photograph: Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images.

Rationing in 1940s Ireland: Drapers protest over clothes restrictions

Una Mullally
September 8, 2019

From the archive: Worth remembering wartime rations amid Brexit shortages fears

Temple Bar hotelier and publican Martin Keane is submitting a fresh application to develop the old Iveagh Markets, with food hall, craft workshops, hotel, restaurants, distillery and brewery

Hotelier plans new Iveagh Markets Quarter in Dublin’s Liberties

Olivia Kelly
September 4, 2019

Council report finds vacant building ‘badly damaged’ and in need of €13m in repairs

Iveagh Markets, Francis Street, Dublin. Hotelier and publican Martin Keane secured planning permission in 2007 to redevelop the Edwardian market in the Liberties. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Iveagh Markets ‘unsafe’ and in ‘advanced state of dereliction’

Olivia Kelly
September 4, 2019

Dublin City Council report says repairs on historic building would cost more than €13m

Circa 1955: taoiseach Éamon de Valera (1882 - 1975) with Frank Aiken (1898 - 1983). Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images

United Ireland: De Valera’s secret plan for unification

John Horgan
August 31, 2019

The taoiseach wanted to bring Ireland into the Commonwealth with the queen as its head

Quaker graves in the grounds of a HSE building on Cork Street in Dublin. Weir House, a nurses’ home, was built in 1903 to accommodate nurses working at Cork Street Fever Hospital. Photograph: Dave Meehan

McVerry Trust to redevelop building in Quaker cemetery to house homeless

Olivia Kelly
August 31, 2019

Edwardian nurses’ home to be converted into 20 units for those leaving homelessness

Richard Harris in 1972: the actor recorded a poem titled There Are Too Many Saviours on My Cross. Photograph: Tony Russell/Getty

Richard Harris poem for the North: ‘It’s f***ing thinking like yours that gets people shot’

Dennis Barker
August 30, 2019

In August 1972 the actor released a record of his poem, written because he thought politicans had tried and failed

Festivalgoers at Electric Picnic in 2005. Photograph: Haydn West/PA

The first Electric Picnic: ‘We’re going for a mini-Glastonbury’

Una Mullally
August 30, 2019

From the Archive: ‘Despite the promises, the beer and toilet queues proved as frustrating as always’

The Moore Street Advisory Group’s report warns that the 200-year-old market is facing ‘an existential crisis’ and is at imminent risk of closure unless a regeneration scheme is put in place. File photograph: Aidan Crawley

Minister seeks council action on Moore Street markets

Olivia Kelly
August 30, 2019

Josepha Madigan calls on council chief to form expert group ‘at earliest opportunity’

The old Manhattan Cafe on Richmond Road: once a haunt of musicians and all-night revellers. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times

Bid to reverse council decision on Manhattan Cafe redevelopment

Olivia Kelly
August 30, 2019

Council refused to sanction €1.4m sale of site surrounding the former late-night venue

There are 71 species of shark in Irish waters. Photograph: iStock

Shark-catching off the coast of Ireland

Una Mullally
August 25, 2019

From the Archive: Angling expert Richard Burrows reported on the sport of shark-angling in his Irish Times column

The data shows the importance of migration as, without the Vikings, the population decline could have been much worse, according to the researchers. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Ireland’s population in ‘serious decline’ before Vikings’ arrival

Shauna Bowers
August 22, 2019

Vikings more successful than ‘natives’ in expanding population, research shows

In May 1969 St Patrick’s College in Maynooth, Co Kildare, was causing a stir. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

When ‘girl students’ joined the priests-to-be in Maynooth

Una Mullally
August 20, 2019

When pressed, the priests-to-be admit that one day there could be a scandal

Sackville Street, Dublin, late 19th century. Photograph: The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty

Irish Times small ads, 1886 – Wanted: a lost cow, a wife with €1,000, a mildly insane tenant

Dean Ruxton
August 19, 2019

There were no articles on page 1 of The Irish Times in 1886. But the ads told their own story

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