New documentary suggests couple’s hasty marriage may have been to ward off scandal
Sales mark centenary of the 1922 World Congress of the Irish Race
How the independent state in 1922 went from democratic general election to disaster
New exhibition tells personal story of four key figures in the Irish revolution
The first volume of Irish women’s speeches is a reminder of the female voices that inspired and drove change
Some 100 years ago TDs made the most important choice in the history of Irish State
Accounts for its three Irish distressed property loan funds show loans valued at €507m
Majority of women in the organisation voted in February 1922 to reject the terms offered as did the six women TDs in Dáil
What began as a series of protests led to the raising of $5m in aid distributed in Ireland
Large selection of soccer memorabilia also going under the hammer
Patrick McGrath and Thomas Harte were the first IRA men executed since the Civil War
Women proved easy targets for the Black and Tans and were regularly terrorised in their homes by threatening, abusive and drunk soldiers
Historian’s classic account lacerated the country’s mediocrity and begrudgery
Dublin’s infant mortality rate was abnormally high when two women opened a hospital for infants on Charlemont Street, with £100 and two cots
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