Todd Andrews

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After Bloody Sunday November 21st 1920, the bodies of British officers assassinated in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence are taken back to England for burial. The men were members of British intelligence cell, the Cairo Gang. File photograph: Getty
Diarmaid Ferriter: Bloody Sunday 1920 changed British attitudes to Ireland

The initial backlash left the IRA reeling and saw British intelligence enhanced. Then talk turned to a truce With the killing of 32 people, Bloody(...)

Pike's Bridge outside Maynooth where Patrick Mullaney's anti-Treaty column were finally captured by Free State forces.
IRA made three attempts to capture Baldonnell Aerodrome

County: Kildare Incident: During the Civil War, 1st battalion (Leixlip) attempts to capture Baldonnel Aerodrome Date: November 1922 During the Civil(...)

Britain’s Queen Victoria pictured in a carriage in Dublin in 1900. In this video still, Victoria Arnott is on the left in a white hat before she presents the monarch with flowers. Photograph: Museum of Modern Art, New York.
‘Astonishing’ video footage of smiling ‘famine queen’ Victoria’s Dublin visit found

Rediscovered footage of Queen Victoria’s last visit to Ireland in 1900 has been described as of “astonishing” clarity . The minute and a half worth o(...)

Barry Andrews is congratulated by two of his children, Kate and Hugh, after being selected to contest the European Elections for Fianna Fáil in Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
Barry Andrews: European candidate plucked from Fianna Fáil royalty

Barry Andrews, confirmed as Fianna Fáil’s European Parliament candidate for the Dublin constituency, hails from party royalty. His father, David Andr(...)

Todd Andrews in 1966. Photograph: The Irish Times
Stories of the revolution: Andrews family not entitled to funeral grant for wife

The well-known Andrews political family was refused a funeral grant to bury the widow of Todd Andrews. Joyce Andrews, his second wife, died in Augus(...)

President Michael D Higgins’s father was denied a military pension for 22 years. Photograph: Rafael Marchante/Reuters
Revolution to be digitised as 10m documents to go online

The revolution will be digitised following the Department of Defence’s decision to put nearly 10 million documents covering the Easter Rising, the War(...)

Sir Roger Casement: executed for treason in August 1916
Ryan Tubridy discovers ancestor’s letter to Roger Casement

Broadcaster Ryan Tubridy has discovered a letter written by his great-grandmother to Sir Roger Casement thanking him for his support for the poor of C(...)

MV Naomh Éanna, the CIÉ transport ship that serviced the Aran islands for years, is awaiting scrappage at Grand Canal Docks in Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Break-up of Aran island ferry for scrap opposed by waterway enthusiasts

Joyce’s Ulysses publisher Sylvia Beach and writers Brendan Behan and Breandán Ó hÉithir were among the many who travelled and reminisced about travell(...)