Michael Collins

Wind players are heavily indebted to the Paris Conservatoire’s tradition of commissioning test pieces from the leading composers of the day. Debuss(...)

In Dublin’s GPO yesterday evening it was a history lesson like few others for the group of London teenagers. “There wer(...)

(Click image to read letter in full) Michael Collins was concerned about growing mayhem in the early months of 1922. As British forces withdrew(...)

Stewart Bevan’s grandfather Charles Stewart Bevan and his grand-uncles Seamus Bevan and Thomas Bevan fought in the Easter Rising. Bevan’s grandfather(...)

A woman shot and injured while in command of five men during Easter Week 1916 was refused a pension because the law was “applicable to soldiers as gen(...)

A bitter controversy has developed in recent years about whether or not Protestants were intimidated and murdered by elements of the IRA during the Wa(...)

Harry Boland, whose funeral took place in Dublin yesterday, was a friend and business partner of former taoiseach Charles Haughey. They knew each othe(...)

Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has said he is happy to remain in his current role amid reports he is being considered for the health porfolio in(...)

French embassy staff must be saying “Dieu merci” to the news that the sprawling house on Ailesbury Road that has served as embassy offices for the pas(...)

It was William Martin Murphy who emerged as the real victor of the revolutionary Ireland of 100 years ago. Not Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, James L(...)