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Cork marks 100 years since Mac Curtain and MacSwiney elected Lord Mayors
- Irish News
- February 1, 2020, 10:33
Cork City Council honoured its martyred Lord Mayors, Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney this week at a special meeting to mark the 100th anniversa(...)

Books in brief: From Standish O’Grady to austerity Britain
- Books
- October 5, 2019, 00:00
The Shattered Worlds of Standish O’Grady By Christopher Boettcher Four Courts Press, €55 Standish O’Grady’s background was west Cork landed gentry. Ea(...)

Democratic Programme set out the vision for a new Republic
- Heritage
- January 21, 2019, 00:00
The Democratic Programme, one of four seminal documents adopted by the first Dáil, set out the vision for a new Republic upon which the War of Indepen(...)

Eamon Gilmore nominated to lead EU human rights advocacy
- Politics
- December 10, 2018, 13:43
Tánaiste Simon Coveney has nominated a predecessor as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, to head up the EU’s human rights monitoring and adv(...)

Helena Molony: A persistent fighter for working women
- Heritage
- December 10, 2018, 00:00
Helena Molony (1883–1967), actor, republican, trade unionist, and feminist, was born on January 15th, 1883, at 8 Cole’s Lane, off Henry Street in Dubl(...)

Labour MP who put Northern Ireland centre stage in British politics
- People
- August 12, 2017, 05:00
Former British Labour Party MP Kevin McNamara, who has died aged 82,probably did more during his long political career than any other British politici(...)

ITGWU complained to taoiseach about high unemployment figures
- Politics
- December 30, 2016, 00:01
Trade unions told taoiseach Garret FitzGerald of their “deep dissatisfaction with the continued high level of unemployment” and what they saw as the a(...)