Desmond Ryan

Part of the challenge of this year’s centenary is to confront the silences around 1922

Notable exceptions were made to widespread desire to forget conflict

Seán Lemass tapes: 1958 plan to reverse protectionism and open Ireland up to foreign investment had a galvanising effect on the economy

Seán Lemass tapes: Still regarded as Ireland’s greatest taoiseach, Lemass missed the pleasures of cards and golf and going to race meetings

Rising was an offshoot of the Great War

A new book lists 31 definitive texts. Are the authors right? And what should be the 32nd?

A letter Michael Collins wrote to Kitty Kiernan in 1922 has been donated to the National Library

Roy Foster tells seminar author’s work ‘clearly reflected’ father’s experience as a Volunteer