History

Century • Lost Leads • Belfast Agreement • Vote 100 • 1916

Lights, camera, retraction! Why the Free State government was so quick to appoint a film censor

‘Suspect’ women: Why were more than 500 females imprisoned during the Civil War?

My family and the Civil War: ‘It was barely spoken about growing up’

Burning down the big house: Why were so many country houses owned by former Anglo-Irish landlords destroyed during 1920-1923?’

Who killed Noel Lemass, the brother of former taoiseach Seán Lemass, in 1923?

Terror month: Violence in March 1923 reached new depths of depravity

What happened in 1923? From Civil War to nation building

Iarmhairtí na réabhlóide: an imirce

League of Nations: How Ireland joined ‘great institution for peace’

Forgotten dead: The dozens of men executed by Ireland’s National Army

Order to dump arms followed the death of IRA leader Liam Lynch

Building a nation: Eight key challenges faced by the State

An opportunity to reflect on sensitive and emotive events

Michael D Higgins: Dark shadows were to flow from the period we have been commemorating

In the classroom: approaching ‘1923′ in senior cycle

WT Cosgrave expressed private regret over 1922 executions in recently discovered letter

Simone de Beauvoir dropped from TCD statue plan over alleged ‘grooming’ of sex partners

What does the ‘denaming’ of Trinity’s Berkeley Library mean?

Dublin hotel inadvertently adopts name of slavery advocate

The Silent Civil War review: A gripping story of ordinary people who felt they had to do terrible things

Trinity College Dublin to ‘dename’ Berkeley library due to philosopher’s link to slavery

From The Green Fields of France to Waltzing Matilda: An Anzac Day playlist

Peig: The boozing, partying, fighting years

‘It was disastrous, I was wrong’: 50-year-old tapes of interviews with Civil War veterans are made public

Anti-Treaty IRA general Liam Lynch a victim of ‘crude’ revisionism, commemoration hears

Easter Sunday commemoration marks 107 years since 1916 Rising

Sara Canning: We deserve better and better is possible. The Belfast agreement is treated with kid gloves

‘I found myself in between two great men’: Bono finds pride in the name of peace

Prisoner release: A quarter-century later, this part of the Belfast Agreement is still an open wound

Photo essay focuses on mass imprisonment of women in Ireland in the early 1920s

Contraception and Modern Ireland: ‘You would think they are explosives the way they are treated’

Why did the Free State Impose a hard Border in Ireland 100 Years Ago?

Elizabeth Bowen back in the big house as Doneraile Court returns to its former splendour

Reconciliation ceremony to mark the centenary of the end of the Civil War

Union chief Mick Lynch to address Dublin event celebrating author Robert Noonan

Civil War commentators guilty of lazy and inaccurate self-judgment, says author

A rogue priest, a pregnant housekeeper and the murder of a doctor in a small Irish town

Neglected reputations: The forgotten Yeats sisters, Lily and Elizabeth

‘Forgotten’ IRA volunteer executed during War of Independence commemorated on Henrietta St

Final letter of Kerry Civil War victim reached mother after six years and 10,000km

Skellig Michael to be studied for climate change and damage to heritage

The Táin retold: ‘Maeve and Ailill’s spat could be out of a soap opera’

Free State attempted fourth atrocity in Co Kerry on same day as Ballyseedy massacre

Stories of Free State soldiers killed in Civil War in Kerry must not be forgotten, commemoration told

Auctioneer defends inclusion of Nazi memorabilia in Irish sale

Apologies are needed for past atrocities, says Sinn Féin leader

Tánaiste cautions against a rush to correct Dáil record on Ballyseedy massacre

Calls for National Army officer’s account of Ballyseedy ambush to be read into record of Dáil Éireann

Civil War atrocities such as Ballyseedy served only to prolong the conflict in Kerry, historian argues

Great Famine and Irish independence struggle linked by geography and history

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