Michael Davitt

We should tax landlords instead of the workers being priced out of the market

Patrick Freyne: Baz Ashmawy would starve to death in minutes without the people of rural Ireland

In its first 50 years, stories of ‘remarkable’ and ‘extraordinary’ operations became regular features in The Irish Times

Evictions combined with advent of photojournalism brought ram under spotlight

The motivation for Irish participation was humanitarian, in large part

Philip King, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Liam Carson, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Diarmaid de Faoite pay tribute

Hot drinks and raw onions: Some of the tips for a good night’s sleep from our archive

Higgins says Irish in Australia were victims of prejudice but some inflicted injustice too

Myers’s reference to Jews a gift to people objecting on other grounds to his column

Missionary priest (96) has also worked in Britain, India and Papua New Guinea

The Terry Wogan statue in Limerick is a case of a good artist producing bad art

‘In November 1887, he retreated from his normal living quarters into the adjoining keep’

Irish connections: William Bourke Cockran represented the US all over the world but is barely remembered in his home county of Sligo

Irish State managed to alienate North just as Brexit made unification a real prospect

America Letter: Cloud City’s forgotten migratory miners to be commemorated at last

‘Tom Kettle was a truly great Irishman of whom we should all be immensely proud’

Taoiseach opens GPO exhibition ahead of weekend of Rising commemorations

‘It is my hope and intention to lead a republic where our society is indeed united’

Hard times haven’t dampened the entrepreneurial spirit of Mayo’s county town

In a year of 1916 commemorations, there is no State funding for Mayo museum devoted to influential Land League founder who split with Parnell and is said to have inspired Gandhi

The poet took Irish out of the classroom and into the pubs and clubs of youth culture

In March 1912 more than 100,000 people gathered on O’Connell Street in Dublin to hear the MP herald London’s introduction of a new Home Rule Bill

It seems the Government is not interested in historical nuance or debate about what precisely it is commemorating

For former auctioneer Gerry O’Boyle and other Land League West members, the suffering caused by house repossessions is unjustifiable and requires a collective response

The group says it will assist anybody whose family home is being threatened by banks

New Land League says it expects O’Donnells to stay in Gorse Hill and contest legal notices

Group sees itself as modern version of Michael Davitt’s Land League

‘I saw enough to be lost in admiration at the bravery of these Irish soldiers’

Two-year project to examine evictions from mortgaged, rental and other properties with focus on right to housing

History: The words of Lord Acton in his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge have an especially…