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Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of wounds received
Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle
32 people were killed on Bloody Sunday, or died later of wounds received that day
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of their wounds
Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company
Number of the Beast – Frank McNally on auspicious dates, inauspicious horses, and the theme of fertiliser in Flann O’Brien
An Irishman’s Diary
‘Short skirts and strong boots’: The pioneering feminism of Anna Parnell
Anna Parnell led a generation of women in the 19th century and inspired another in the 20th
The Dublin-born journalist who became a foreign correspondent in Imperial Russia
EJ Dillon counted Tolstoy and Dostoevsky among his personal aquaintances
David McWilliams: Ireland’s Monopoly money rents are no game
We should tax landlords instead of the workers being priced out of the market
Big Week on the Farm: Shameless sheep sex rams home rural Ireland's beautiful ways
Patrick Freyne: Baz Ashmawy would starve to death in minutes without the people of rural Ireland
Surgery in the 19th century: From barbershop phlebotomies to the ‘fashionable, ephemeral craze’ of antisepticism
In its first 50 years, stories of ‘remarkable’ and ‘extraordinary’ operations became regular features in The Irish Times
Blunt instrument – the Kilrush evictions of 1888 and the ‘Vandeleur ram’
Evictions combined with advent of photojournalism brought ram under spotlight
Medical militia – Frank McNally on the Irish presence at the Franco-Prussian war
The motivation for Irish participation was humanitarian, in large part
Liam Ó Muirthile: ceardaí focal, craftsman of words
Philip King, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Liam Carson, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Diarmaid de Faoite pay tribute
Sleeping secrets: undress in the dark, walk around the room and lie east-to-west
Hot drinks and raw onions: Some of the tips for a good night’s sleep from our archive
President says Irish had role in injustices against Aboriginal people
Higgins says Irish in Australia were victims of prejudice but some inflicted injustice too
Colum Kenny: Accusations of anti-Semitism cover a multitude
Myers’s reference to Jews a gift to people objecting on other grounds to his column
After 70 years, Fr Davitt marks his platinum anniversary
Missionary priest (96) has also worked in Britain, India and Papua New Guinea
Why doesn’t the Terry Wogan statue work? Because he’s a celeb
The Terry Wogan statue in Limerick is a case of a good artist producing bad art
An Irishman’s Diary on a nationalist MP whose antics made him a celebrity
‘In November 1887, he retreated from his normal living quarters into the adjoining keep’
The Irish orator who taught Winston Churchill how to win a crowd
Irish connections: William Bourke Cockran represented the US all over the world but is barely remembered in his home county of Sligo
Pride in ‘inclusive’ 1916 commemoration rings hollow
Irish State managed to alienate North just as Brexit made unification a real prospect
Honouring the Rocky Mountain Irishmen of Colorado
America Letter: Cloud City’s forgotten migratory miners to be commemorated at last
Tom Kettle: In memory, 100 years after death at the Somme
‘Tom Kettle was a truly great Irishman of whom we should all be immensely proud’
Enda Kenny urges politicians to follow example of 1916 rebels
Taoiseach opens GPO exhibition ahead of weekend of Rising commemorations
Enda Kenny makes appeal for political co-operation
‘It is my hope and intention to lead a republic where our society is indeed united’
Shopping Spraoi: Castlebar
Hard times haven’t dampened the entrepreneurial spirit of Mayo’s county town
Museum for social reformer Michael Davitt survives on donations
In a year of 1916 commemorations, there is no State funding for Mayo museum devoted to influential Land League founder who split with Parnell and is said to have inspired Gandhi
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1983 – Bligeard Sráide, by Michael Davitt
The poet took Irish out of the classroom and into the pubs and clubs of youth culture
John Redmond’s finest hour
In March 1912 more than 100,000 people gathered on O’Connell Street in Dublin to hear the MP herald London’s introduction of a new Home Rule Bill
Diarmaid Ferriter: How do you prefer our Fenian dead – revered or reviled?
It seems the Government is not interested in historical nuance or debate about what precisely it is commemorating
The west’s awake: Mayo’s anti-repo men
For former auctioneer Gerry O’Boyle and other Land League West members, the suffering caused by house repossessions is unjustifiable and requires a collective response
High political burlesque: So what is the New Land League?
The group says it will assist anybody whose family home is being threatened by banks
Court orders nailed to gates of O’Donnell home in Killiney
New Land League says it expects O’Donnells to stay in Gorse Hill and contest legal notices
New Land League has been involved in protests at evictions and auctions
Group sees itself as modern version of Michael Davitt’s Land League
Letters from Willie Redmond reveal pride in Irish at Somme
‘I saw enough to be lost in admiration at the bravery of these Irish soldiers’
NUIG law lecturer leads EU survey on housing evictions
Two-year project to examine evictions from mortgaged, rental and other properties with focus on right to housing
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