Molecules, metaphors and the place of science in culture
One is contained within the other, but how does that manifest itself?
Centenary of British handover of Cork’s Collins Barracks marked
Minister says troops of 1922 would be proud of role Defence Forces play in peacekeeping
Bridge Notes: Veteran competitors win main pairs competition of Clonmel online congress
Team competition developed into tussle between a leading male quartet and four of the current national women’s squad
Handover of British rule: ‘After 700 years here, what difference does 7 minutes make?’
A hundred years ago this weekend marked the handover of British rule. This is an account of that day
Treaty vote split was as much about personality as it was about policy
Little divided the two sides in reality despite the bitterness of the ensuing split
Church was not hostile to the drive for independence
Rite & Reason: The Catholic bishops were not ambivalent – nor were they bystanders
Charles Townshend: Sinn Féin negotiated treaty that cut Ireland in two
100 years ago: How the Irish Border went from idea stage to fixture
Bridge Notes: Galway’s online congress attracts strong fields
European Bridge League has announced team championships planned for Madeira in June have been cancelled
Bloody Sunday 1920: Who were Michael Collins’s hit team ‘The Squad’?
12 regular assassins were assisted by part-timers for ‘jobs’ including Bloody Sunday
McDowell ‘deeply uncomfortable’ with Soldier F prosecution
Man is due to go on trial in 2020 for murder of two men and attempted murder of four others
Widow of TD executed during Civil War took her own life
The Sligo files: Pension file reveals grieving wife of Seamus Devins drank disinfectant 14 years after his death
RIC officer shot dead in revenge for treatment of republican prisoners
The Wexford files: Percival Lea-Wilson was seen by Michael Collins forcing Proclamation signatory Tom Clarke to strip naked
A century on: the Dáil loan that set the State on road to financial sovereignty
Michael Collins began an audacious plan on April 4th, 1919, to appeal to people to fund an underground government
Fintan O’Toole: The 1918 election was an amazing moment for Ireland
In an act of peaceful secession, Irish people chose to be citizens, not subjects
Sending Up The Republic – Frank McNally on a forgotten satirist of Irish independence, Eimar O’Duffy
An Irishman’s Diary
Defence Forces rescue of migrants praised at 1916 commemoration ceremony
Naval Service’s role highlights how Ireland has taken its place among nations of the earth, ceremony hears
Thomas Michael Kettle: an enduring legacy
The myth and memory of Thomas Michael Kettle, steeped in both the Great Warand the Easter Rising, live on
Writers’ view of Rising far from rose-tinted
Ever since the seismic events of 1916 Irish artists have taken a nuanced view of events
Rising poem: ‘Íota an Bháis’ for The O’Rahilly by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
A centenary poem as Gaeilge (translated into English underneath)
First fatalities of the Easter Rising remembered in Ballykissane
Three Irish Volunteers drowned when their car went off the pier in Co Kerry
Limerick student wins Texaco Children’s Art Competition
Marta Turalska wins overall category and prize of €1,500 for ‘My Grandma With Grape’
St Patrick’s Day 1916: Irish Volunteers hold military manoeuvres
1916/2016 Diary: Play about Roger Casement’s role to have premiere in Temple Bar
Seán Farren: Unionist rebellion holds the key to the Rising
The establishment of Ulster Volunteers prompted the establishment of the Irish Volunteers
Pádraig Pearse: Preparing for the ‘end times’
Long a Gaelic revivalist, Pearse was a latecomer to politics and gunfire, his unfortunate brother an even later one
Plans for a rising: Setting a date
In the summer of 1915, the military leadership of the Irish Republican Brotherhood started to draw up plans for a rising against British rule
Secret police files relating to Easter Rising released
Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) obsessively monitored future rebels
Opera singer’s eyewitness account of Easter Rising made public
Elsie McDermid’s description of the Rising to be put on view at Dublin City Libraries
UCD to host major Easter Rising conference in 2016
Event will give global context to 1916 as part of university’s centenary commemorations
David Norris rebuked for calling 1916 leaders ‘traitors’
Ned O’Sullivan accuses Senator of driving ‘coach and four’ through Rising history
1916 Proclamation in ‘negative equity’
Easter Rising poster suffers huge price drop – down from €240,000 to €90,000
800 years of Irish history
Adam’s auction includes a copy of the 1916 Proclamation and a rare photo from 1921
‘Most of the people who were involved in the background of the troika were very smart . . . but they weren’t very good at politics’
Interview: Minister for Finance Michael Noonan is eager to maintain support for the recovery drive
President hails Irish Volunteers’ efforts to ‘vindicate unfulfilled hopes for freedom’
At centenary commemoration Higgins praises self-sacrifice of Irish Volunteers
Ceremonies mark 100th anniversary of the Irish Volunteers
President Michael D Higgins pays tribute to self-sacrifice of those who signed up
The men who began the revolution
The Irish Volunteers formed a century ago to support Home Rule in the face of UVF opposition. But what, precisely, they achieved before the disastrous treaty split that led to civil war is a contentious question
The legacy of Eoin MacNeill, the man who tried to call off the Rising
The actions of the Irish Volunteers founder must be seen in the context of his turbulent times
December 7th 1914
FROM THE ARCHIVES: At the beginning of December 1914, the British authorities in Ireland banned a number of publications including…
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