Michael Collins

The Dáil debate that shaped how we understand Irish history

A Sinn Féin split over the Treaty left Ireland in uncertain circumstances in early 1922

The Irish 100 years ago: Sport-loving, price-conscious and half were under 25

Censorship, conservative morality and high cost of living made for an oppressive mix

Arthur Griffith: a ‘moderate’ republican who launched Sinn Féin in 1905

Papers Griffith edited, when not suppressed by the British, inspired a generation

Harry Boland: A charismatic leader within the Irish revolutionary movement

Dublin man was a faithful friend to de Valera and had a complex friendship with Collins

What would Michael Collins have become? Democrat or autocrat, moderniser or traditionalist?

Evidence indicates Collins was a man of his time who shared prevailing values of 1922

The assassination of Michael Collins: ‘They’ll never shoot me in my own country’

New evidence suggests Sonny O’Neill might not have been the shooter

My grandfather Cathal Brugha has been unfairly depicted as an extremist

Ruairí Brugha: Former IRA chief hoped his death would ‘serve some greater good’

Erskine Childers: a strange mix of a British imperialist and an Irish republican

By the time he died at the age of 52, Childers had made powerful enemies in the pro-Treaty side

Erskine Childers: a strange mix of a British imperialist and an Irish republican

Childers made powerful enemies on the pro-Treaty side of the Civil War

In1921/1922 the North saw some of the most intense violence in Ireland

Catholic civilians bore brunt of retaliations for ongoing IRA assassinations

Ukraine war shows need for ‘fit-for-purpose’ military, Defence Forces’ chief says

Ceremony marks centenary of Baldonnel handover by RAF to Irish Air Service

Honoured Guest – Frank McNally on the exemplary death of Major Compton-Smith

An Irishman’s Diary

Travel and tourism: ‘We need to encourage people back to normality’

Lack of staff, public hesitancy and cash flow just some issues faced by sector

West Cork massacre of 100 years ago likely ‘anti-Treaty IRA’

Thirteen Protestants shot dead in Dunmanway as reprisal for killing of local IRA leader

Real impact of NI Assembly elections to be on unionist morale

‘We now have a nationalism that is confident ... Sinn Féin can take Stormont’

Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee remembered with great affection at their funerals

Taoiseach represented at services held in Rosocommon and Sligo

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