Martin Doyle was a Victoria Cross winner who quit to join the national struggle
James Joyce was unafraid of exile, even embracing the heroic outsider status he felt his rejection of Ireland bestowed on him
World Cup winner Sam Whitelock says rugby ‘is only a game’ compared to war
Tom Kettle and Willie Redmond among 26 barristers who died in WW1
Hundreds of thousands of Irish soldiers returned home to a largely hostile country
New exhibition on Irish soldiers who fought at Messines and on Western Front
‘Oppositionist’ TDs are in electoral danger if they get serious about trying to govern
Conservative Party conference justified ‘the stupid party’ tag coined in Victorian times
‘Tom Kettle was a truly great Irishman of whom we should all be immensely proud’
Kettle died to liberate France which has long been an inspiration for Irish republicans
Kettle killed leading B Company, 9th Royal Dublin Fusiliers; 300 Irish killed in the battle
Some 1,200 men from 16th (Irish) Division were killed at Guillemont and Ginchy
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