How two republicans gunned down a hero of the first World War on his own doorstep

Paris Letter: Former French president had affair with young woman during his final years

Irish republicans sought discussion on independence at peace negotiations

Sean T Ó Ceallaigh and George Gavan Duffy attempted to win France over to the cause

... German buglers responded. Across the battlefield, men stood up in bright sunshine

Former colony 17,000km from mainland France has waited 30 years for referendum

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 devastated Ireland – with more than 20,000 deaths and 800,000 infected, it permeated every layer of society and silenced whole communities as it passed through

Nationalism is the motivating factor behind what is happening in Trump’s US

Georges Clemenceau, who would lead France through the last years of the war, was editor of ‘L’Homme Libre’ in 1914. In this front-page editorial he discusses Serb/Austrian and Austrian/French tensions, after Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination – Lara Marlowe

One of the euro zone’s biggest economies has 11 per cent unemployment, falling exports and significant budget deficits. How can the French turn this around?

The great painters subjects were the people of Paris, and his portraits a comment on society