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Researchers discovered boulders which they believe may have been intended for use at Newgrange.

Archaeologists find possible neolithic log boats near Newgrange

Elaine Keogh
November 4, 2019

Team of researchers surveying Boyne river bed near Brú na Bóinne heritage site

“The rink has been frequently attended by fashionable crowds, and all agree that the floor is the best they have ever used.” Photograph: iStock

When Dublin rollerskating rinks made headline news

Una Mullally
November 3, 2019

The opening of three new rinks in 1909 for ‘votaries of the graceful art of roller skating’ was covered by The Irish Times

The Usher’s Island James Joyce house, location of the short story, The Dead. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

James Joyce’s ‘House of the Dead’ may become a hostel under new plans

Olivia Kelly
October 31, 2019

Proposals lodged to turn the setting for famous short story into a 56-bedroom hostel

Ireland was a trailblazer, as the first country in the world to ban smoking in the workplace in 2004. Photograph: Matt Morton/PA Wire

The smoker’s Waterloo: The day Ireland stubbed out smoking in pubs and clubs

Una Mullally
October 27, 2019

From the Archive: Issue of ban was consistent theme in Irish Times’s letters pages

The OPW said while the ancient monuments themselves are not being affected, the visitor centre is “struggling to cope with the demand”, especially on busy days during the summer. File photograph: Cyril Byrne

Number of visitors to Clonmacnoise putting site under ‘strain’

Shauna Bowers
October 18, 2019

The monastery receives between 155,000 and 170,000 visitors per year

‘On the Run’ by Seán Keating. Copyright The Estate of Seán Keating, IVARO Dublin, Image courtesy of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Revolutionary Ireland: defiance, youth and pessimism

Diarmaid Ferriter
October 15, 2019

The remarkable level of human detail in pension applications enhances our understanding of republican volunteers both during and after the revolutionary years

The imposing ruins of Tyrone House, near the village of Kilcolgan, Co Galway January 1968. The house was destroyed by the local IRA unit during the Irish War of Independence. Photograph: RDImages/Epics/Getty Images

Junior Cycle guide: Written and visual primary sources bring history alive for the student

Frieda Crehan
October 15, 2019

Military Service (1916-23) Pensions Collection and Brigade Activity Reports a treasure trove for inquiring young minds

A suspected member of Sinn Féin is searched by Black and Tans during the War of Independence. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

About the military archives

Daniel Ayiotis
October 15, 2019

A vast array of records are stored in the facility, which has over 21km of shelving

Paul Kehoe: ‘These pages also provide a glimpse into every county in the country and we get a real sense of what was happening locally during those tumultuous times.’

A remarkable record of the road to independence

Paul Kehoe
October 15, 2019

These are first-hand stories of ordinary people driven to do extraordinary things

British troops during the War of Independence. The nominal rolls of the IRA which were released in 2014 list 115,000 men who served in it during the War of Independence. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

War of Independence: how the IRA was structured

October 15, 2019

An IRA company was usually organised at the townland level, and could contain between 60 and 200 men

A suspected member of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin is searched at gunpoint by the British Black and Tans, during the War of Independence in 1920. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Senior cycle guide: Exploring the past: how to approach history

Eimear Jenkinson
October 15, 2019

Evidence is key to any study of the events that have shaped us

War of Independence: A woman recites the Rosary in front of Mountjoy prison, Dublin, for imprisoned Sinn Féin members on hunger strike. Photograph: adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images

Irish Revolution was one of the most chronicled revolutions in history

Ronan McGreevy
October 15, 2019

Military Archives in Cathal Brugha Barracks holds historical, economic and familial records

From Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall (2014), a film based on the true story of Jimmy Gralton, the only man ever deported from Ireland.

Emigrants who got State pensions . . . and sometimes lost them

Ronan McGreevy
October 15, 2019

Several famous anti-Treaty Republicans applied for a pension while living abroad

Reservoir at Silent Valley, Mourne Mountains, Co Down. Photograph: MyLoupe/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

IRA plot to cut off Belfast’s water supply thwarted by damp dynamite

Brian Hutton
October 15, 2019

The Down files: Operation to blow up reservoir was revenge for Belfast pogroms, pension documents reveal

A group of Black and Tans on a trench road in Tipperary, while assisting the British Army during the War of Independence, 1921. From the AE Bell Collection. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Leitrim, 1921: IRA volunteers lied about War of Independence attacks

Ronan McGreevy
October 15, 2019

The Revolution Files: Men fabricated raids and arms seizures to get pensions because they were in dire financial straits

An RIC cadet and two members of Sinn Féin lying dead on the road, while in the background cadets are taking Sinn Féiners prisoners, Irish War of Independence, Tralee, Ireland. Photograph from The Illustrated London News, vol 157, no 4258, November 27, 1920.

Traveller’s body used as decoy to lure Black and Tans

Ronan McGreevy
October 15, 2019

Kerry, 1921: Eight Black and Tans were killed by 50 IRA men in the Rathmore ambush

Frank Aiken, minister of external affairs of Ireland, October 1960. Photograph: Getty

Armagh, 1921: IRA man tormented by woman’s killing in attack on Protestant village

Brian Hutton
October 15, 2019

The Revolution Files: Killing happened during a mass shooting in a Protestant village in Armagh

Thomas McDonagh, one of 41 IRA men who died during the War of Independence in Roscommon, remembered on a memorial outside Elphin. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy

IRA headquarters refused request to defend Ballaghaderreen

Ronan McGreevy
October 15, 2019

The Roscommon files: Fears Black and Tans would burn town in revenge for ambush

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Widow of TD executed during Civil War took her own life

Ronan McGreevy
October 15, 2019

The Sligo files: Pension file reveals grieving wife of Seamus Devins drank disinfectant 14 years after his death

The West Mayo Brigade Flying Column posed for this photograph in 1922

Five IRA men killed in botched ambush

Ronan McGreevy
October 15, 2019

The Mayo files: Heavily armed British soldiers overcame men

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