How Irish women won the right to vote in 1918
After decades of campaigning by the suffragettes, a 1918 Act gave a limited cohort of women the right to vote in parliamentary elections
Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought
A century after the Armistice of 1918, we are still living in the world it created
Irish woman honoured for wartime work at Bletchley Park
Leslie Greer produced reports based on decrypted signals during second World War
Diarmaid Ferriter: Telling our children about the Easter rising is still no easy thing
Simplistic narratives are complicated by new sources
Editor of 18th-century texts and historian of the provincial press
Marie-Louise Jennings: September 3rd, 1933 - August 3rd, 2015
Historian of Stalinism and robust right-wing polemicist
Robert Conquest: July 15th, 1917 - August 3rd, 2015
The age-old traditions of Gareth Kennedy’s invented worlds
The artist’s latest projects centre on what he calls ‘folk fictions’
Mary McAleese: The Christmas truce
‘The memory of that Christmas truce is so important on this island at this time’
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