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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

Students from Coláiste Uí Chadhain Irish College near Baile Na hAbhann, Co Galway, practice their singing for the houses competition. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy. How many teenagers can a Bean an Tí fit in her house? One more
  • Patrick Freyne
  • July 9, 2021

Irish college may be cancelled this year but it’s an experience that never changes. Ever.

Members of the London Irish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans network. Photograph: James Berkery Placing queerness at the heart of the Irish emigrant experience
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • June 12, 2021

A new exhibition celebrates the cultural and social impact of Ireland’s LGBTQ+ diaspora

Lord mayor of Cork Tomás Mac Curtain was murdered at his home on March 20th, 1920 Lord mayor of cork Tomás Mac Curtain was murdered by Black and Tans – historian
  • Barry Roche
  • June 8, 2021

Regular members of RIC were blamed for killing in Blackpool on March 24th, 1920

Reading Gaol: Oscar Wilde’s prison cell. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Reading Gaol: The battle to save Oscar Wilde’s prison cell
  • Stephen Castle
  • June 8, 2021

Moves to make the jail a public space have stalled. Could it yet become a ‘gay landmark’?

Arthur Griffith was chairman of the small Irish team sent to negotiate a treaty with Britain in 1921 Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith expected a 28-county Irish State
  • Colum Kenny
  • June 1, 2021

The negotiators believed Tyrone and Fermanagh would pass to the South

Kerrie O’Sullivan as Katie Crilly and Darren McMahon as British soldier Hubie Wilson enact a scene from the novel Fallen by Lia Mills, on the centenary of the 1916 Rising, as part of Dublin’s One City One Book festival.   Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Best fiction of the Irish War of Independence
  • Gerardine Meaney
  • May 31, 2021

Irish novels set in revolutionary times took an oblique view of big historical events

July 1921: Catholic Dubliners recite the Angelus for peace in Ireland. Photograph: Walshe/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images No one felt safe anywhere in Ireland during the first seven months of 1921
  • Eunan O'Halpin
  • May 27, 2021

Cork suffered most deaths (557), followed by Dublin (360), Antrim (232), Tipperary (158)

 Dublin Civic Trust wins Europa Nostra Heritage Award for 18 Ormond Quay Upper. Dublin conservation project wins major European heritage award
  • Olivia Kelly
  • May 25, 2021

Restored Georgian building shows potential for ‘living over the shop’ on Liffey quays

The Custom House during the centenary event. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Burning of the Custom House: ‘From the ruins would rise a free country’
  • Ellen O'Riordan
  • May 25, 2021

Event to mark the centenary of the fire hears from relatives of those who died

Kathleen Clarke Treaty details signal the end of unity in Cumann na mBan
  • Mary McAuliffe
  • May 25, 2021

Majority of women in the organisation voted in February 1922 to reject the terms offered as did the six women TDs in Dáil

President Mary McAleese and Queen Elizabeth at the Garden of Remembrance on the first day of the royal state visit in May 2011. Photograph: Maxwell’s Dublin Lloyd George came around to the idea a truce and talks were better than no talks at all
  • Damian Collins
  • May 25, 2021

The funerals of British intelligence officers had an appalling symmetry with the London procession to mark the return to Ireland of the body of Terence MacSwiney

Alice Lyons, Kathleen McKenna  and Ellie Lyons in  London. Photograph: EA Lawlor private collection/military archives Women of the Treaty: On hand to record the making of history
  • Liz Gillis
  • May 25, 2021

Michael Collins’s typists, Arthur Griffith’s secretary and a Sinn Féin press officer

The then taoiseach, Leo Varadkar,  with British prime minister Boris Johnson at Thornton Manor Hotel in Cheshire in October 2019, ahead of private talks in a bid to break the Brexit deadlock. Photograph: PA Wire Leo Varadkar: The 1921 Treaty shaped Irish politics for a century
  • Leo Varadkar
  • May 26, 2021

We have been dealing with the consequences of partition ever since

Prisioners under guard after the Custom House battle in May 1921. Photograph: Independent News And Media/Getty Images Truce and Treaty: How the IRA stepped up its campaign against crown forces in 1921
  • Lorcan Collins
  • May 25, 2021

100 years later: The Irish Times recalls a critical year in modern Irish history

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Vaccine centre at  The Helix in  Dublin on April 3rd, 2021. Photograph:  Charles McQuillan/Getty Pandemonium: leaks and learnings behind scenes of Covid response

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