Tom Kettle

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Martin Doyle at a garden party at Buckingham Palace for Victoria Cross recipients in June 1920, four months before he joined the IRA.
The man who fought for three armies: British, IRA and Free State

The people of New Ross in Co Wexford will on Sunday honour Victoria Cross winner Martin Doyle who returned to the town as a war hero 100 years ago and(...)

Ireland has shown itself ready to celebrate Joyce and the opening of the new Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) at 86 St Stephen’s Green this week. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
The Irish Times view on the Museum of Literature Ireland: a well-merited honour

In January 1899, at 86 St Stephen’s Green, two student debaters from University College Dublin defeated a motion at the Literary and Historical Societ(...)

All Black players Nepo Laulala, Sam Whitelock and Liam Squire, at the site of The Hauntings Solider sculpture at St Stephen’s Green. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy
All Blacks visit WW1 Hauntings Soldier sculpture in St Stephen’s Green

No country was further away from the fighting in the first World War than New Zealand, yet few were so disproportionately affected. In many sites acr(...)

Legal profession honours members of the Bar killed in the first World War

A ceremony has taken place to remember the members of the Bar who were killed in the first World War. One in five Irish barristers who signed up to (...)

Irish troops moving over the captured German 2nd line at Cambrai, France, circa 1917. Photograph: Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images
Ireland’s first World War veterans: Shunned, ostracised, murdered

January 21st, 1919 was an auspicious day in Irish history. The War of Independence started when men from the 3rd Tipperary Brigade of the Irish Volunt(...)

In victory and then in defeat

The Soldiers & Chiefs exhibition at the National Museum Collins Barracks examines all aspects of Irish military history from 1550 to the present d(...)

Lieutenant William Frederick MacHutchison: 99 years later, his last resting place has been identified
The story of a missing Irish soldier

For almost 100 years Dublin-born soldier Lieutenant William Frederick MacHutchison was one of the missing of the first World War. On Wednesday a new h(...)

Joining Fianna Fáil: Stephen Donnelly with party leader Micheál Martin last week. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Stephen Collins: Donnelly move shows futility of being an Independent

It is hard to say who is more politically naive, Wicklow TD Stephen Donnelly or his legion of critics. The TD is aghast at the barrage of abuse that(...)

British prime minister Theresa May (left) at the European Summit in Brussels: she believes the 27 remaining EU states have as much to lose as the UK from its exit. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA
Stephen Collins: We need to realise Tories will do Brexit the hard way

The time has come for Irish policy makers to stop dreaming of a soft Brexit and prepare for the reality that the United Kingdom is likely to crash out(...)

Tom Kettle, Irish patriot, essayist, poet and British soldier.
Tom Kettle: In memory, 100 years after death at the Somme

Lt Tom Kettle, B Company, 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was killed in action on September 9th, 1916, near the village of Ginchy in northern F(...)

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