William O Brien

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(...)

Mary MacSwiney (1872-1942), republican, was born on March 27th, 1872, in Bermondsey in London, the eldest of seven surviving children of an English mo(...)

The Supreme Court has halved to some €150,000 a €302,873 damages award made to a former soldier over negligence by the Army over its delay in failing (...)

On April 9th, 1918, House of Commons MPs gathered for a special sitting. At 3pm, British prime minister David Lloyd George briefed the house on the si(...)

The Irish suffrage movement, with a membership of about 3,000, was made up of nationalist, unionist and those who refused to take either side. It was (...)

A historic library of more than 1,000 books and manuscripts owned by the Jesuit Order in Ireland will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s of London on (...)

Acting president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) William O’Brien has admitted to travelling business class to the Rio Olympics while athletes(...)

Gardaí investigating the murder of a leading dissident republican on Leeside earlier this month believe that a car found burnt out in North Cork may h(...)

Gardaí investigating the murder of dissident republican Aidan O’Driscoll in Cork are increasingly coming to the view that he was killed by former asso(...)

Gardaí investigating the murder of dissident republican Aidan O’Driscoll in Cork last week believe that up to five people may have involved in the kil(...)