Franz Ferdinand

There were no articles on page 1 of The Irish Times in 1886. But the ads told their own story

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Beth Orton is back on the gig trail; The Lost Brothers find their way around Ireland; British Sea Power sail on; and The Pale are still hale 25 years later

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia and established the Communist order which dominated there and eastern Europe for much of the 20th century

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Commentators comparing incident to killing of archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914

The two rivals seem determined to avoid new split over Monday’s killing of Andrei Karlov

The ‘Jerusalem of Europe’ has endured two world wars and a horrendous civil war. Even so, a generosity of spirit endures among the people

Awful events have been powerfully captured in both fiction and non-fiction

NI’s Deputy First Minister to attend ceremony at Island of Ireland Peace Park in Flanders

Republic is taking active role in war commemorations across Belgium

All Ireland football final, Hot Air Ballooning Championships and Kilruddery Film Festival

The first World War started a century ago on Monday. In one of the first towns to be attacked, at the start of a battle that Irish soldiers fought in, the scars still run deep

With the final hours of a two-day ultimatum ticking away, Serbs wondered how Austria-Hungary would react if Belgrade did not meet its demands

The Vienna correspondent for Italy’s ‘La Stampa’ reports on growing tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia

Vienna’s ‘Freie Presse’ led its edition 100 years ago today with the death of Baron Hartwig, the Russian ambassador who encouraged Serbia to stand up to Austria-Hungary

Georges Clemenceau, who would lead France through the last years of the war, was editor of ‘L’Homme Libre’ in 1914. In this front-page editorial he discusses Serb/Austrian and Austrian/French tensions, after Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination – Lara Marlowe

Countdown to first World War: Serbs receive news about Franz Ferdinand’s alleged killers

Ten days after assassination of Ferdinand, belligerent attitude of Austro-Hungarian government underlined

Overnight, one has to reckon with a period of increased uncertainty about the future leadership of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy

Archival series on the build up to the first World War: while sympathising with the Austrian royal family, Russia’s media accused Vienna of discriminating against Serbs and stoking tensions that culminated in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

In our continuing series of archival reports on the build up to the first World War, the Sarajevo correspondent of Turin daily La Stampa records increasing Serb-Croat-Bosnian tensions in the aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Two days after the Sarajevo shooting, the London Times reported it on its front page

Centerpiece of events to be a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra in the Bosnian capital

European Council president Van Rompuy in London for talks with Cameron

Higgins will join leaders from some of the key powers in the war, including German president Joachim Gauck, French president Hollande, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge representing Britain

In a biography of Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Franz Ferdinand, journalist Tim Butcher puts his crime in context and disagrees with Churchill’s verdict that he was the worst terrorist who ever lived

For fear of reviving old hostilities, one French version of responsibility for it has the war ‘appearing as a sort of natural disaster that no one wanted – a catastrophe in which all are victims and none are responsible’

During the long month of July, the British public enjoyed summer, listening occasionally to ever more strident tones from the Continent. For a while, however, they mostly did not choose to do so

“I’ve always known that to understand me, it would take a few records” – four albums in and Joe Mount has found his true pop calling