New archive tells stories of ordinary volunteers in Easter Rising
Military Service Pensions Collection published online
Brother Against Brother, by Liam Deasy (Mercier Press, £6.99)
This is an important and gripping historical document, since Deasy was an active - and fairly prominent - republican militant…
A new State of pride, euphoria and civil war
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the Free StateParliament in Leinster House on December 6th, 1922…
So, once and for all, who did shoot Michael Collins?
Eoin Neeson writes about one of the most tragic and controversial events in modern Irish history
Birth of a nation: the treaty that transformed Ireland
OPINION: NEXT TUESDAY marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on December 6th, 1921
The revolution's unsung hero
MICHAEL KENNEDY reviews My Father, The Genral by Ristéard Mulcahy, Liberties Oress, 283pp €17.99
The need to memorialise
POETRY: Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 Edited by Gerald Dawe Blackstaff, 412pp, £16
Little did they know
British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-45 By Paul McMahon Boydell Brewer, 516pp
The Long Fella re-imagined
History: This is a beautifully produced book. The Royal Irish Academy has certainly delivered for Dr Ferriter
Commemorating the 1916 Rising
The Defence Forces will march past the GPO on O'Connell Street in Dublin tomorrow in the first military parade commemorating …
Women were among the chief sufferers in the ensuing conflict
The leaders could not have anticipated the treatment of their widows in later years at the hands of their countrymen, writes …
An Irishman's Diary
One of the most important figures in Irish history, and certainly in the history of independent Ireland, retired from active …
The IRA's `cultural murder' at the Four Courts, 1922
Historical misinformation is rather like a computer virus
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