Dublin divided

HISTORY: DERMOT BOLGER reviews A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-18 Pádraig Yeates Gill & Macmillan, 304pp. €24.99


September 13th, 1915

FROM THE ARCHIVES: A year after the start of the first World War there were daily British army recruiting meetings around the…


August 17th, 1914

FROM THE ARCHIVES: John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Party, addressed a 2,000 strong assembly of Irish Volunteers, some …



August 15th, 1914

The start of what turned out to be the first World War in August 1914 led to some panic buying of food in Dublin and accusations…


April 11th, 1918

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The initial success of the German offensive in spring 1918 panicked the British government into announcing…


March 25th, 1916

FROM THE ARCHIVES: In March 1916 – coincidentally, a month before the Easter Rising – The Irish Times published “a flight of…


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