No peace ‘overtures’ in original King George V speech that led to end War of Independence

Documents from Public Records Office show how 1921 speech to NI parliament changed

‘Belfast let itself go with a vengeance’: Reporting the king’s speech, 1921

King George V opened the Northern Parliament on this day 100 years ago, drawing huge crowds onto the streets

TV View: Slumbering start to Day Eight ends in a full-on Braveheart at Wembley

Roy Keane struggles to calm down Graeme Souness ahead of the big game

Yeats, Freud and Lavery among heavyweights in Christie’s sale

Barney Eastwood collection includes important Irish and sporting pictures

If the film's great, who cares if it's faithful to the book?

When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming

Rattling the chains – Gerard Smyth on Austin Clarke

An Irishman’s Diary

Lockdown auction market thrives as buyers browse from home

Sale prices for Julian Friers and Patrick Pye works far exceed auctioneer’s estimations

Ruling the waves – Norman Freeman on turbine pioneer Charles Algernon Parsons

An Irishman’s Diary

The extraordinary and turbulent early life of Prince Philip

The Duke of Edinburgh was forced to flee his birthplace in Greece with his family as a baby

Gun salutes marking the death of Prince Philip planned across the UK

The Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth, died aged 99 on Friday

The other Burton – Denis Fahey on Sir Richard Francis Burton’s life of adventure

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Mountbatten heirlooms offer insight into glamour of a dazzling dynasty

Family collection of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, go under hammer in March

Brendan Voyage(s) – Frank McNally on a tangled tale of memoirs

An Irishman’s Diary

Thinking Anew – ‘A light shining in the darkness of the night’

Why we celebrate Christmas on the 25th, eat mince pies and put up trees

Pricewatch’s 12 fun facts of Christmas explores the origins of our modern traditions

Three given chance to donate to charity in case where Cork street signs were defaced

Accused said they were protesting over city honouring Queen Victoria in street names

‘Short skirts and strong boots’: The pioneering feminism of Anna Parnell

Anna Parnell led a generation of women in the 19th century and inspired another in the 20th

I have log cabin fever – the idea just won’t let go

An old dumping ground will sport a cabin distantly related to one owned by a queen

Why oh why are the snowflake Irish always so upset by the British claiming their stuff?

Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott are no longer Irish, apparently. We get Prince Andrew in return

A Prussian solution to an Irish problem – An Irishman’s Diary on Prince Joachim and the 1916 Rising

West Cork resort owner says it is already 45% full for July

Eccles Hotel and Spa occupancy at 40% for August, with hope of getting ‘close to 70%’

Thousands seek to remove colonialists’ names from Uganda’s streets

Petition calls for use of domestic heroes in nomenclature rather than British overlords

Newton Emerson: The North’s approach to difficult statues is adding rather than removing

None of the city’s handful of landmark statues is now thought worth fighting over

Britain prancing on the world stage? You don’t need to tell us. We were pranced upon

TV review: Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album looked beneath the images’ glossy surfaces

Unshakeable purpose – Florence Nightingale, the woman who revolutionised nursing

‘The greatest war correspondent’ – An Irishman’s Diary on William Howard Russell

Elephants to beetles: zoo collections matter for conservation

Engagement with animals can have positive effects for survival and recovery of species

The Waterford man who married Napoleon Bonaparte’s niece

Politician Thomas Wyse was one of only five Catholics to win a seat in the House of Commons in 1829

Dolittle review: Worse than a bad movie, this is the low-point of every career involved

This ‘film’ doesn’t even have the good grace to be a bad movie. It’s far worse than that

The Irish Times view on Christmas: light in the winter darkness

Victorian fashions have shaped our expectations of Christmas to a degree that we forget how many of our Christmas traditions are recent innovations

Celebrating that special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren

Festive season presents opportunities to enhance a special relationship

Ashford Castle: Eighty years old and more gorgeous than ever

Tollman family have spent €68m since 2015 restoring historic castle to its former glory

Eat better fruit without it costing the earth

Supermarkets are piled high with fruit imports but it’s not hard to grow your own

Opium armchair, porcelain pipe: bygone-era drug paraphernalia at Adam’s

Ritual objects of tea taking and opium smoking on show in Asian Art sale

To the manor born? Nine country estates to buy now

Live like a lord or lady on estates from Abbey Leix to Seafield House

Higgins says rich countries must rebalance the world

‘You go to the UN to offer some very much necessary but perhaps for many unpalatable truths ’

How an Offaly man revolutionised naval warfare and marine transport

Charles Parsons interest in steam and engineering began at his home in Birr Castle

How Killarney carved out a niche business in furniture fit for a queen

Elaborate marquetry made from strawberry trees was a hit with wealthy tourists as well as Queen Victoria

‘Astonishing’ video footage of smiling ‘famine queen’ Victoria’s Dublin visit found

Film archivists are amazed at the quality of film showing Victoria’s 1900 visit

Church of Ireland has put its survival over public engagement

Since disestablishment 150 years ago, the organisation has been both insular and innovative

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