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Taoiseach Micheál Martin: ‘Let us summon the courage and resilience of the past to meet the challenges of now, to build a better future for tomorrow.’ Photograph: Francisco Seco/Pool/EPA
Burning of Cork by British forces in 1920 remembered

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has urged Irish people to view the events of the past through “the measured eye of the discipline of history” as a means towa(...)

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern whose father Con died in 1990. File image: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Role played by Bertie Ahern’s father in IRA a century ago revealed in military files

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s father was turned down for a military pension despite claiming to have risked his life on a nightly basis to carry des(...)

Mourners at the funeral of Michael and Johnny Cash on their way to Farranree Church, in Cork.
Gardaí must be 'more assertive' at large funerals – Traveller advocate

Gardaí must be “more assertive at dispersing people” when large numbers of mourners attend funerals, a leading Traveller advocate has warned. Martin (...)

Eighteen-month-old Eliza O’Brien from Shanagolden in Co Limerick arrived in Australia on board the Blundell along with her mother in 1851. Photograph: Jane Theau
Baby Eliza escaped Famine Ireland to a life of beatings, prostitution and prison

Two and a half years ago Australian artist Jane Theau asked me to write a voiceover for an art exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary since th(...)

Eamon Ó’ Cuív, a member of the all-party advisory committee on commemorations, pictured with Fianna Fáil party leader (left) Micheál Martin. File image: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Fianna Fáil will block RIC commemoration event, says Ó Cuív

The proposed commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) will not go ahead as planned if Fianna Fáil(...)

Cousins Connie and Rico Delaney at the Carrowbrowne temporary halting site beside the Headford Road in Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shughnessy
Travellers feel they have been 'left to die' on rat-infested site

A group of 13 Traveller families, including over 40 children, say they feel like they have been “left to die” at a rat-infested site just outside Galw(...)

Irish connection: Denis O’Sullivan, in whose memory the Feis Ceoil awards a medal each year
The son of Skibbereen who sang his way around the world

In September 1898, the Skibbereen Eagle newspaper ran a famous editorial that declared: “We will still keep our eye on the Emperor of Russia and on al(...)

Long live the king? Bertie Ahern is to be invited to rejoin Fianna Fáil. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Bertie Ahern: he hasn’t gone away but where has he come from?

June 1977 Bertie Ahern, a 25- year-old accounts clerk at the Mater hospital in Dublin, stands for Fianna Fáil in the three-seat constituency of Dub(...)