Second World War

Described as ‘illiteracy’s most famous product’, what Robertson lacked in skill he made up for in tenacity under the cloud of Nazi occupation

Future president felt Ireland was ‘not too badly off’ and was apathetic towards partition

The proud, stubborn and courageous Monaghan man chose a path which led to his premature death

Patrick Cockburn remains detached but proud of father’s career as determined, ruthless revolutionary

Theatre: Sandra O Malley delivers a career-defining performance in Blue Raincoat’s meticulous production of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play

Once the cornerstone of the country’s remembrance culture, the slogan’s meaning has become increasingly blurred

Francesco Lotoro’s research is unclear and ignores how music-making in the Nazi camps was sometimes a form of torture

Temporary capital during wartime engaged American military aviation advice and training for the Flying Tigers to fend off aerial bombing by the Japanese

Just before the second World War broke out, in 1938 the New Industries (Development) Act sought to lure employers to the North. It helped some escape the evil of the Nazis

Hundreds of volunteers have helped unearth artefacts at site in St Anne’s Park

Sunil Amrith brilliantly portrays how our dominance over nature has been self-serving and destructive, a corrosive colonisation of Earth for which he doubts there is a mass global solution

Prime minister Donald Tusk says lessons of the past, and present Russian aggression, underline importance of strong defence

The far-right Alternative for Germany party’s Björn Höcke wants a ‘180-degree shift’ in the country’s view of its past and condemns the postwar ‘guilt cult’

Erfurt in Thuringia is a microcosm of a post-factual right-wing political landscape in which emotion is key to unlocking popular support

Irmgard Furchner worked in Stutthof concentration camp office from June 1943 to April 1945 aged 18 and 19

Beijing claims maritime incidents caused by dangerous actions of Philippines coast guard vessels in contested waters of South China Sea

Team behind memorial to Nazi-era prostitutes close to Reeperbahn excluded area’s sex workers from its planning and drew on incorrect information, it is claimed

UCC’s Andy Bielenberg says family are ‘very proud’ of Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg for part in plot

Historians Margaret MacMillan and Roy Foster see troubling parallels between the events of today and those of a century ago

A new train tunnel running under the memorial has been described as ‘macabre’ given how many Sinti and Roma were deported by rail to their deaths