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Shot dead in Dublin 100 years ago: the man who started the War of Independence
- Heritage
- October 14, 2020
On October 14th, 1920 Sean Treacy, one of the most-wanted men in Ireland, was killed by a single shot to the head on Talbot Street in Dublin. He had (...)

Fiona Bruce in a Spitfire is a Brexiteer’s fever dream
- Culture
- September 18, 2020, 05:00
Fiona Bruce is in a Spitfire flying over the weald of Kent. If you’re English you’ve definitely had that vision, the stirrings of a collective nationa(...)

Game Changers: Futuristic views set Herbert Chapman apart
- English Soccer
- July 8, 2020, 06:00
He slipped away with a suddenness that shocked England, succumbing to pneumonia on January 6th, 1934, just five days after picking up “a chill” watchi(...)

Back to the imagined future of the past with Paleofuture
- Technology
- November 28, 2019, 05:22
Matt Novak’s Paleofuture blog offers us a look back at the history of the future. That is to say, it’s all about retrofuturism: how the distant past i(...)

The original hard Border on the island of Ireland was imposed by the Irish Free State in 1923, and footage of it has now been digitised and put online(...)

How the British faked ‘battles’ during the War of Independence
- Books
- June 20, 2019, 06:01
Fake news has come to the fore recently, particularly across the Atlantic. It is interesting that about 100 years ago in Ireland, practitioners of pro(...)

Archiving the Net: ‘Preserving the web isn’t impossible’
- Technology
- April 25, 2019, 04:35
Our experience of modern history is informed as much from news reels, magazines and personal journals as it is by the physical artefacts we see in mus(...)

Bert Trautmann: From German PoW to Man City’s star goalkeeper
- Film
- April 1, 2019, 17:40
The main problem for the makers of The Keeper was what to leave out from the life of Bert Trautmann. One can imagine a film – maybe a whole TV series(...)

Vote 100: Events to mark the centenary of the vote for women in Ireland
- Heritage
- December 10, 2018, 02:00
Dáil Éireann: The First 100 Years, 1919-2019 Tuesday, December 11th; Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin; €20/€10 The Houses of the Oireachtas (...)

How an Irish antiques dealer upstaged locals to open Australia’s greatest bridge
- Opinion
- October 31, 2018, 06:01
Decades before Irish racing trainers started winning the Melbourne Cup, as they may do again next week, another horseman from this island achieved a n(...)