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Original membership card confirms former Dutch royal prince Bernhard’s Nazi Party links
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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
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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
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