‘Days of doom’: The Irish Times editorial the day following D-Day
June, 1944: ‘The world is watching these prodigious events with bated breath’
Lost Leads
Illegal games, con artistry and a ‘mystery’ death: crime and misfortune at Harbour Court
A lane in Dublin city centre is to be closed to the public due to persistent antisocial behaviour - it has some murky mentions in The Irish Times archive going back decades
A rogue priest, a pregnant housekeeper and the murder of a doctor in a small Irish town
100 years on, the trauma of a doctor’s killing still ripples through the town
‘Forgotten’ IRA volunteer executed during War of Independence commemorated on Henrietta St
Plaque erected to Thomas Bryan, great-uncle of the singer Boy George, executed over a Drumcondra ambush
Final letter of Kerry Civil War victim reached mother after six years and 10,000km
Letter from Stephen Buckley – killed at Countess Bridge, Killarney – crossed the Atlantic twice before it reached his mother
Government should correct Dáil record on Ballyseedy 100 years on, urges historian
Statement of Ballyseedy survivor should be read into record to ‘correct’ official account of ‘atrocity’, conference hears
Lost letters by ‘Catholic plotter’ Mary, Queen of Scots, uncovered by amateur code breakers
The messages, written while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, were mistakenly listed as Italian texts in France’s national library
‘Incredibly relevant’: Bloody Sunday documents shed new light on atrocity
The archive of civil rights campaigner Kevin Boyle provides a ‘powerful first-hand account’ of events
The Irish State is 100 years old. Why is nobody celebrating?
Ambivalence about the date is down to the Civil War and Partition
The story of how the Irish State came into being 100 years ago this week
A momentous day was sullied by the violence of the Civil War, WT Cosgrave said when delivering the first speech in an independent State
Ex-Olympic champion pays tribute to relative executed in Civil War 100 years ago today
Michael Carruth’s great-uncle John Gaffney was one of the first republican prisoners to be shot
‘The Queen is slowly sinking’: How The Irish Times covered Victoria’s final hours
‘Men have been born, have had children born to them, and seen their children’s children, without ever knowing another Monarch’
‘Epochal’ – how The Irish Times reported the handover of Dublin Castle, 100 years ago today
Britain’s 1922 ‘surrender’ of Dublin Castle to Michael Collins was a hugely symbolic moment
‘The first step on a new path’: What The Irish Times thought of the Treaty vote
Dáil Éireann voted in favour of the Anglo Irish Treaty 100 years ago today
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