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Historical fiction is that canvas, waiting to be smudged and abused until something true emerges
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Original membership card confirms former Dutch royal prince Bernhard’s Nazi Party links
Former Dutch royal prince Bernhard's early Nazi links finally confirmed by party membership card
Former RIC members had varying experiences in the newly formed Irish Free State, historian tells conference
Some disbanded members of the 13,000-strong force were forced to leave Ireland because of threats from the IRA, says Dr Brian Hughes
The last of Churchill’s Few returns to Dublin school 86 years after he left
Retired group captain John Hemingway (104) is the only surviving Battle of Britain pilot
Donald Clarke: Napoleon still the historic figure film directors can’t get away from
No figure in history has been portrayed so often in movies than the little Corsican
Fintan O’Toole: The far right gives power to the most obnoxious little gits
What would Irish politics really look like if a clever and magnetic leader were to emerge from the far right?
Michael Portillo: ‘Conservatives see Ireland exclusively through the unionist prism’
The former Conservative politician and historian on his new documentary about the Irish Civil War
Oscar Wilde’s false teeth were kept by a hotelier – but the family didn’t want them back
An Irishwoman’s diary: Oscar Wilde’s false teeth were kept by a hotelier who later tried to return them to the family – but they declined
Pilita Clark: Men who have their legs broken to gain height are not entirely mad
Research shows taller people are more successful but leg-lengthening surgery is still a step too far
Diarmaid Ferriter: Brexit ineptitude shows Anglo-Irish relations have come full circle
British politics today is poisoned by Brexiteers inept in the art of statecraft
Despair, defiance and democracy: Ireland in 1922
Part of the challenge of this year’s centenary is to confront the silences around 1922
Erskine Childers: a strange mix of a British imperialist and an Irish republican
By the time he died at the age of 52, Childers had made powerful enemies in the pro-Treaty side
Erskine Childers: a strange mix of a British imperialist and an Irish republican
Childers made powerful enemies on the pro-Treaty side of the Civil War
Jack Higgins, the ‘useless’ Belfast schoolboy who went on to write The Eagle Has Landed, dies at 92
The adventure novelist sold 250 million books. A number of his works have Irish themes
Johnson faces backlash after comparing Ukraine war to Brexit vote
Sunak attempts to defend PM’s remarks that both British and Ukrainians ‘choose freedom’
Zelenskiy invokes Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as he calls for more US help in speech to Congress
Ukrainian president issues emotional appeal to US politicians on day 21 of Russian invasion
US bans Russian oil imports as warplane deal for Ukraine moves closer
Kyiv says compromise possible with Moscow but civilians struggle to flee onslaught
Zelenskiy invokes Churchill in call for UK to do more to help Ukraine
President tells Commons Ukraine will fight Russia ‘in the forests, the fields, the shores and in the streets’
Why don’t we remember the Weaver Street massacre in Belfast?
Described as the worst atrocity since ‘Herod slew the innocents’ four girls and two women were murdered
Shooting Boots – Frank McNally on how ‘the Monaghan Footballers’ of 1922 ended up in Hansard
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Macron and Putin to continue with round-table Ukraine talks
Representatives of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine to reconvene crisis talks on Friday
Denis Staunton: Old Brexit comrades turn on Johnson as his position remains perilous
No-confidence momentum slows after PM’s punchy display but Davis’s move underlines threat
Book released on ‘forgotten’ men and women of Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations
Book details the lives of 70 people bound up in the talks
If someone can be cancelled, someone can be uncancelled. Let’s start with Arthur Griffith
Unthinkable: Are we losing the ability to judge historical figures fairly?
Art&Antiques: Watches at Adam's just in time for Christmas
Timepieces by Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, and Bucherer among items in Adam’s sale
Fintan O’Toole: Brexiteers’ absurd admiration for Michael Collins
Brexiteers ignore the most obvious effects of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
Who was who during the Treaty negotiations
Michael Collins and Winston Churchill just two of the famous names among delegations
The beauty of Busáras: It was built at a time when public architecture mattered
Eoin Ó Broin believes Dubliners don’t value Busáras as much as they might
A century on: Dramatising the drama that led to Anglo-Irish Treaty
Negotiations behind the foundation of the Irish State are staged at the NCH
Sean Moncrieff: Why are my clothes still on? Why am I on the kitchen floor?
The Fear, hangxiety, call it what you will. Most of us have had a hangover
Fintan O’Toole: If only we could fight climate change like we fight wars
Political systems tackled great threats before – can that resolve be generated without war?
Embassy musical event will show Dublin and London still in tune
London Letter: Other Voices amplifies interwoven musical world of Britain and Ireland
Pilita Clark: We must learn not to be constantly at work
For those of us who started work before the iPhone arrived in 2007, downtime was far easier to find
Exhibition of Anglo-Irish Treaty portraits marks centenary of talks
Lavery portraits of both sides on view at Irish Embassy in London – ‘The Art of Negotiation’
Rhyme Unreason – Frank McNally on Anglo-Scottish relations going from bad to verse
An Irishman’s Diary
Greece and Turkey play slow game of tennis where neither wants to be there
Greek Letter: The net is the entire maritime region of islands and their oil and gas
Fintan O’Toole: Southgate’s properly patriotic football team has wrong-footed Boris Johnson
Gareth Southgate’s team chose decency and dignity over the toxic ‘Ingerland’ identity
How Boris Johnson writes his biographies: Scholar was asked to help with Shakespeare book
Johnson used the same method – rewording an academic's responses – in his 2014 Churchill biography
Another Round: An intoxicating mix of ideas about boozing
The glass is both half empty and half full in Thomas Vinterberg’s fascinating, funny film
Boris Johnson right to ditch ‘special relationship’ tag
UK leader caught between rock and hard place over US trade deal
The North Strand bombing: Remembering the terror 80 years on
Bomb dropped over Dublin by Luftwaffe aircraft killed 28 and destroyed 300 homes
Lloyd George came around to the idea a truce and talks were better than no talks at all
The funerals of British intelligence officers had an appalling symmetry with the London procession to mark the return to Ireland of the body of Terence MacSwiney
The Treaty negotiations: a story of trust forged and trust broken
Did Lloyd George mesmerise Collins, or did Collins silently acquiesce to his pressure tactics?
The number who died for Irish freedom was small but their impact was huge
How the IRA helped cause the British to sue for peace in the War of Independence
Downsizing David Davies puts Killoughter House contents on sale
Churchill painting of castle where Rasputin’s assassin lived included in Fonsie Mealy sale
Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson’s gibberish may be surreal but it's also dangerous
When the British prime minister can’t be bothered to lie, he lapses into nonsense
Gun salutes marking the death of Prince Philip planned across the UK
The Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth, died aged 99 on Friday
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