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
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George played ‘a dishonourable role’ in bringing about Irish Civil War, Ahern says
Former Taoiseach tells Dick Barrett Commemoration in West Cork that Civil War as the greatest tragedy to befall Ireland in the 20th century
Diarmaid Ferriter: Sunak will need a strong sense of history to have any hope of succeeding
The Tory class prefect has just replaced the class clowns in the top job; he must not allow nostalgia or ‘the fear of failing’ to cloud his judgment
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
From remembrance ceremony to murder, the final hours of Sir Henry Wilson
How two republicans gunned down a hero of the first World War on his own doorstep
In 12 days Ireland went from fledgling democracy to civil war
How the independent state in 1922 went from democratic general election to disaster
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
Dublin Castle ceremony marks 100 years since British handover of power
Transfer of power came after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921
Book released on ‘forgotten’ men and women of Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations
Book details the lives of 70 people bound up in the talks
100 years ago today: Mary MacSwiney’s marathon speech against the Treaty
MacSwiney’s uncompromising republicanism was eventually rejected
What did David Lloyd George mean by ‘immediate and terrible war’?
British prime minister’s threat is phrase most associated with Anglo-Irish Treaty talks
Treaty Timeline: from beginnings to a Republic
From Lloyd George’s invitation in 1921 to declaration of republic two decades later
Who was who during the Treaty negotiations
Michael Collins and Winston Churchill just two of the famous names among delegations
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
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’
Colm Tóibín: What Brexit Britain doesn’t understand about Ireland
Hot-headed and untrustworthy, London now behaves as it used to regard the Irish
One hundred years ago: The last person to die in the War of Independence
Hannah Carey was shot dead outside the Imperial Hotel in Killarney on July 11th, 1921
When Lloyd George met de Valera: ‘Why do you insist upon Republic? Saorstat is good enough'
Frances Stevenson’s diary on the Lloyd George-de Valera summit of 1921 offers rare insights
This day 100 years ago: The Mansion House meeting that ended the War of Independence
Cheering crowds greeted news of possible truce between British and Irish
Lord mayor of cork Tomás Mac Curtain was murdered by Black and Tans – historian
Regular members of RIC were blamed for killing in Blackpool on March 24th, 1920
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?
King’s speech appealed to ‘all Irishmen... to forgive and forget’
The royal visit for the opening of the Northern Ireland parliament in 1921 was of great significance to Ulster unionists, though the target audience may have been Sinn Féin
Claim of British trickery in Anglo-Irish Treaty talks ‘debunked’ by memo
Allegations of secret dealings by Arthur Griffith are false, says biographer
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
Truce and Treaty: Why did de Valera not lead the delegation sent to London?
A mistake, cowardice or duplicity – historical opinion is divided
Bertie Ahern: Dev was wrong not to lead the 1921 Treaty talks
The British team was skilled. It was not smart politics to leave our leading statesman at home
Charles Townshend: Sinn Féin negotiated treaty that cut Ireland in two
100 years ago: How the Irish Border went from idea stage to fixture
Montgomery and the War of Independence – ‘I regarded all civilians as Shinners’
An Irishman’s Diary: Ireland’s biggest county had become the British army’s biggest security headache
Real-life Peaky Blinders: How the IRA sourced guns from the ‘Birmingham mob’
Newly released files detail role of Birmingham gangs in the War of Independence
100 years ago today the partition of Ireland was made official
Ireland is still living with the consequences of the Government of Ireland Act
“He was clean off his head”– Frank McNally on the murder of Canon Magner in December 1920
An Irishman’s Diary
‘My grandfather was killed by the IRA on Bloody Sunday morning’
Des Smith’s grandfather Thomas Smith was shot dead in the boarding house he owned
Bloody Sunday 1920: Who were Michael Collins’s hit team ‘The Squad’?
12 regular assassins were assisted by part-timers for ‘jobs’ including Bloody Sunday
Diarmaid Ferriter: Bloody Sunday 1920 changed British attitudes to Ireland
Backlash left IRA reeling and enhanced British intelligence. Then talk turned to truce
Michael Portillo: ‘Ignorance of Ireland among the British is rather shocking’
Documentary by former UK minister examines War of Independence from Britain’s point of view
1919: a slow-burning start to the War of Independence
Although there were few casualties, the year marked a point of no return and made a confrontation between the British state and the Irish counterstate inevitable
Diarmaid Ferriter: It’s still hard to rise above the emotion of the War of Independence
It invokes such partiality that, 100 years later, untangling its knotted legacy is not easy
War of Independence: The who’s who of policing in Ireland
When the long-established RIC proved not up to the task of crushing the IRA, the British government made the fateful and fatal decision to draft in the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries
Cormac Moore: A century of partition
The Act, brought in by David Lloyd George’s government in an attempt to address the Ulster question, caused great confusion and was widely condemned both north and south
Government forced to confront complicated history of two police forces
RIC and DMP were tasked with opposing IRA in War of Independence
Parnell and now Michael Collins – What’s with Tory Brexiteers quoting Irish heroes?
What was Collins’s ‘freedom to achieve freedom’ speech all about?
Belfast's 1922 massacre of McMahons caused furore abroad
Belfast pogrom’s most infamous incident cast a dark shadow over the extended family
Walking to Jerusalem review: A personal and political one-man travelogue
Dublin Theatre Festival: Justin Butcher serves as an energetic guide along the Roman roads out of Europe
Windsor Davies obituary: booming-voiced star of British TV sitcoms
Best-known for ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’, Davies had hit single with ‘Whispering Grass’
The history of the Irish Border: From Plantation to Brexit
With the threat of a hard border looming, we look at how Northern Ireland came to this
Home rule goes from British suspension to Sinn Féin disfavour
By 1918 the SF new breed are not interested in devolution or any variety of home rule
The botched assassination attempt of the hated French
Volunteer Martin Savage (21) was killed when a bullet entered his neck at Ashtown in 1919
Trump’s golf habit the most presidential thing about him
US president visited Turnberry earlier this week and is latest in long line of enthusiasts
The day the Home Rule movement died
A forgotten casualty of Germany’s ‘March Offensive’ was the Irish Parliamentary Party
Ahern says verdict of history on him will ‘depend on who writes it’
Centenary of Irish Convention conference addressed by two former taoisigh
The fate of southern unionists was sealed in 1917
They had no choice but to reach some accommodation with nationalist Ireland
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