Erskine Childers

An Irishman’s Diary

Many of the health stories 50 years ago are all too relevant today, with rows about hospital sites, private versus public healthcare and concerns about cervical smear tests

A unique institution continues to accommodate those people of divergent political views

Morrissey was once an Anglo-Irish critic of Britishness, but he is now a far-right icon

Woodlawn House, located beside the Luas was lived in by a colonel, a confectioner and former president of Ireland Erskine Childers

Michael Collins began an audacious plan on April 4th, 1919, to appeal to people to fund an underground government

Brian Dobson, Heather Humphreys, Jan O’Sullivan and others on growing up in a Catholic dominated State

The Soloheadbeg ambush of 1919 was as much a strike at Sinn Féin as at Britain

For only the second time, an incumbent president is seeking a second term

An Irishman’s Diary

William Melville created the blueprint for the popular culture spy we know today

For many reasons we are not the same people visited by John Paul II in 1979

If Irish crime fiction has a signal crime it is corruption – public and private, spiritual and secular

Vessel’s 4,000km voyage to share research on humpbacks with colleagues in Iceland

Tahilla has welcomed many politicians over the years, including Jack Lynch, Erskine Childers and Liam Cosgrave

The ‘Ilen’ was built 92 years ago for Falkland islanders by an Irish round-world yachtsman

Former minister of state would run in Dublin constituency, where party is without a seat

Eoghan Harris defends his documentary on 1922 conflict at West Cork History Festival

Archbishop McQuaid said Catholic hospitals must follow ‘moral law’ laid down by church

Plain people of Ireland represented at Chatsworth Fine Art Sale by rare rosary beads

Many library users need assistance and libraries have to be staffed by those with knowledge to be true to their mission

Dollar Exports Advisory Committee called for tax concession on profits from exports

Five-bed redbrick with scope to create a lovely family home

President was right to speak of the need to recognise the atrocities committed by both sides

World capital of wine will have the second biggest Fanzone at the championships

Childers’s commitment to Irish Independence was an inspiration, but his judgment as secretary to the Irish delegation in the Treaty negotiations was flawed

Revisionist telling of IRA soldier’s story does not tally with accounts from time, says historian

‘Read your first drafts out loud to yourself, as if you were giving a sermon – a great way to show up areas in need of improvement’

Time in his company was enriching, he was a walking, talking cure for cynicism

In 1972, pressure to make Irish marriage law a replica of Catholic Church law was rejected, at the very last minute, after secret negotiations that had lasted for a decade

Built in 1823, this two-storey over basement house is a fine home with beautiful garden

Annual trainees awards due to be presented in Dublin today

Oration at the grave of O’Donovan Rossa in 1915 was filmed for posterity

Thousands at re-enactment in which rifle boxes are taken from ‘Asgard’ ship replica

An Irishman’s Diary about the Howth gunrunning

One of the remarkable aspects of this little-known gun-running episode at a small seaside town in Co Wicklow is the leading role played by Protestants in its planning and execution

Eamon Gilmore has woman trouble from present and former candidates

Ruth Ellen Moller: July 3rd, 1927 - February 25th, 2014

MEP Nessa Childers and councillor Jenny McHugh critical of role in Government