We need to know who will control our health data when records are digitised
A digital health record is not a filing cabinet, but a clinical instrument in its own right
Civil War 1922-1923
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s grandfather’s heroics during the Civil War
Robert Carney held off a mob of anti-Treaty demonstrators who tried to storm a guard station in Co Wicklow
A ‘very important figure’: Former IRA chief of staff Moss Twomey to be honoured in Co Cork
Former Fianna Fáil TD Ned O’Keeffe defends decision to honour man interned by Éamon de Valera over fears he would overthrow State
‘How different things are now’: Some of Ireland’s oldest people on what life was like over the last 100 years
‘Isn’t it marvellous for people to be able to read about their grandparents?’ Three ‘centenarians ambassadors’ recall what they have seen
Indigenous insurance companies
FBD is not the Republic’s only indigenous general insurer - IPB Insurance has survived and prospered for 100 years
Fianna Fáil’s founding aims haven’t aged well for the party
Unity, a social system offering equal opportunities and fair distribution of land were among them
The other Lemass shooting: Frank McNally on a dark moment in the life of a future taoiseach
His sister Ciara heard a bang, then saw the child fall, with a fatal wound to the head
Cast a Cold Eye – Frank McNally on the monuments, republican and otherwise, of Tipperary
Divorced of importance it later acquired, was original War of Independence event worthy of pride?
Harsh life of soldier Johnnie Haughey bore privileged fruit in son Charles
One hundred years on from his birth, all the late former taoiseach’s biographers have speculated on the impact of his impoverished childhood
Local history: From the Jacobites to Land War, Civil War, and a Brutish empire
Peacetime armed forces of the 1680s, nuggets about the route to the War of Independence, and atrocities in the name of colonisation
What did Éamon de Valera ever do for us?
Ireland’s memory of Éamon de Valera is complicated by many factors. Diarmaid Ferriter assesses the competing perspectives
Was Michael Collins behind plan for French military airfields in Ireland?
UCC historian Jerome Aan de Wiel unearths diplomatic archive material showing Collins’s associate overture to French intelligence
Woman believed to be Ireland’s oldest person dies days before 109th birthday
Sarah Coyle was born in 1916 and survived two pandemics
The GPO is not ‘sacred ground’. It’s so much more than that
There’s an opportunity to turn it into a building that can generate pride, and improve the perception of a space widely regarded as deficient and devoid of imagination
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices