Oldest woman in the State celebrates 108th birthday
Máirín Hughes puts her longevity down to ‘God’s plan. I have nothing to do with it’
Gaelic League
Contesting the silence: Irish language writers on the Civil War
Notable exceptions were made to widespread desire to forget conflict
Harry Boland: A charismatic leader within the Irish revolutionary movement
Dublin man was a faithful friend to de Valera and had a complex friendship with Collins
Plaque unveiled at Sandymount home of Patrick Pearse’s family
One of 1916 Rising’s key leaders, Pearse lived in house during ‘formative’ years after 1900
Snámhaí or gormaire? The best Irish insults and nasty words
It is as slanderous, scabrous and muck-mouthed a language as any you’ll find
Man of Many Colours – Frank McNally on the great lexicographer and eccentric, Sean the Coat
An Irishman’s Diary
Hero of Irish revolution remembered with new biography
Tadhg Barry’s name lost within months of death in smoke of the Civil War
Women of the Treaty: On hand to record the making of history
Michael Collins’s typists, Arthur Griffith’s secretary and a Sinn Féin press officer
‘Forgotten’ Lord Mayor highlighted burning of Cork in US, says academic
Donal Óg O Callaghan played vital role in garnering support for Irish independence
One hundred years ago: The first IRA prisoner dies on hunger strike
Michael Fitzgerald preceded the death of Cork mayor Terence MacSwiney by eight days
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
Time’s up for Leopold II, Belgium’s butcher of the Congo
Europe Letter: The horrors of king Leopold’s colony spurred Roger Casement to rebellion
Michael Collins’s importance in the War of Independence has been exaggerated
How did the untrained, poorly armed IRA succeed against the superior British forces?
Niall Tóibín obituary: Leading Irish actor known for his Brendan Behan roles
Cork actor appeared in stage version of Borstal Boy nine times, winning Tony award
Cork receives valuable donation of archive from early 20th century
The late Diarmaid L Fawsitt archive provides insight into Cork ’s cultural and political life
Rethinking the meaning of revival of the Irish language
Irish has been instrumentalised for centuries in many ways beyond domain of cultural nationalism
The botched assassination attempt of the hated French
Volunteer Martin Savage (21) was killed when a bullet entered his neck at Ashtown in 1919
Blow by blow: Timeline of the War of Independence
How the war began and how it progressed over the course of 1919
Mary MacSwiney: The Free State’s ‘gorgon republican’
Vote 100: Progressive teacher and fervent separatist became one of the leading women in Irish politics
Inside the Belfast college that moulded peace-makers and Brexiteers
New illustrated book celebrates 150th anniversary of Methody in Northern capital
Hume film reminds us of risks taken by Americans during early Troubles
America Letter: Stateside screening of movie shines light on lesser-known US connections
Higgins praises Conradh na Gaeilge’s role in independence
Organisation, initially known as the Gaelic League, has celebrated its 125th anniversary
The durable democrat
John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party still casts a long shadow over the politics of modern Ireland
Declan Kiberd: Irish writers were an early warning system about abuse
Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since independence have held it to account
In a Word . . . de Valera
My late father believed he walked on water, unaided, and probably skipped and jumped as well without once sinking
‘De Valera is 34, dark, deified.’ An English woman meets Ireland’s rebels, 1917
Una Birch Pope-Hennessy’s account of a visit to Dublin is a who’s-who of the revolution
How The Irish Times reported the death of Thomas Ashe 100 years ago
‘The funeral was the largest which has been seen in Dublin since that of Mr Parnell’
The State of Us, Part 3: Irish nationalism needs a revolution
We have moved beyond the shame and glory of the past, but have yet to invent our future nation
Patsy McGarry. . . In a Word
Most of us would happily have exchanged places with our classmate the Protestant
In praise of Ivor Browne: groundbreaker, lifesaver
The Irish psychiatrist at the heart of a new documentary has transformed our view of mental illness
Rebel Mission: San Francisco’s role in the 1916 Rising
The California city’s Walking the Rebellion tour includes curiosities like the site of the Sinn Féin Shoe Store, which helped fund the Irish republican cause
1916 Rising: Photographic reconstruction past and present
Future presidents and Proclamation signatories among Gaelic League Oireachtas 1913
St Patrick’s Day, 1916: Thousands take to streets in show of force
Participants ‘exceedingly anxious to be regarded as soldiers’
Life and death: the Rotunda and the Rising
Women dodged bullets during Easter week 1916 to walk to the Rotunda to give birth. An exhibition tells the remarkable stories of five women linked to the hospital
Anne Harris: O’Riada’s epic clash of cymbals became a clash of symbols
In terrible revolutionary fall-out his Mise Éire master piece was expropriated by Republicanism
Pádraig Pearse: Preparing for the ‘end times’
Long a Gaelic revivalist, Pearse was a latecomer to politics and gunfire, his unfortunate brother an even later one
Plans for a rising: Setting a date
In the summer of 1915, the military leadership of the Irish Republican Brotherhood started to draw up plans for a rising against British rule
Famine essays resonate with contemporary events
‘Famine Folios’ aims to see national calamity afresh through 21st-century eyes
Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork: Ireland’s best?
The second city’s second street is the only one in Ireland to be shortlisted for a Great Street Award by a London-based academy. Is it a good choice?
How the GAA avoided a split
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, editor of The GAA & Revolution in Ireland 1913-1923, looks at how Irish historiography has evolved and how the GAA helped keep a divided nation together
Miriam Lord: Thomas Kent, proud patriot, home at last
1916 centenary beckons: ‘They really couldn’t ignore the last man shot outside Dublin’
Statue of satirist Pádraic Ó Conaire to be cast in bronze
Replica of stone statue of ‘Galway’s Chekhov’ may be unveiled in Eyre Square
Pioneers of agitprop, from Russia to Tyrone | Visual art round-up
A desire to use art to effect political change unites El Lissitzky and Alice Milligan
Actor Niall Tóibín to receive Freedom of Cork
Cork City Council votes to award the honour to veteran actor and comedian later this year
Wreck of SS Rowan: How jazz nearly didn’t come to Ireland
Rare images of 1921 ferry disaster in which London band members drowned on way to Dublin
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