‘Days of doom’: The Irish Times editorial the day following D-Day
June, 1944: ‘The world is watching these prodigious events with bated breath’
Lost Leads
Illegal games, con artistry and a ‘mystery’ death: crime and misfortune at Harbour Court
A lane in Dublin city centre is to be closed to the public due to persistent antisocial behaviour - it has some murky mentions in The Irish Times archive going back decades
A rogue priest, a pregnant housekeeper and the murder of a doctor in a small Irish town
100 years on, the trauma of a doctor’s killing still ripples through the town
‘Forgotten’ IRA volunteer executed during War of Independence commemorated on Henrietta St
Plaque erected to Thomas Bryan, great-uncle of the singer Boy George, executed over a Drumcondra ambush
Final letter of Kerry Civil War victim reached mother after six years and 10,000km
Letter from Stephen Buckley – killed at Countess Bridge, Killarney – crossed the Atlantic twice before it reached his mother
Government should correct Dáil record on Ballyseedy 100 years on, urges historian
Statement of Ballyseedy survivor should be read into record to ‘correct’ official account of ‘atrocity’, conference hears
Lost letters by ‘Catholic plotter’ Mary, Queen of Scots, uncovered by amateur code breakers
The messages, written while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, were mistakenly listed as Italian texts in France’s national library
‘Incredibly relevant’: Bloody Sunday documents shed new light on atrocity
The archive of civil rights campaigner Kevin Boyle provides a ‘powerful first-hand account’ of events
The Irish State is 100 years old. Why is nobody celebrating?
Ambivalence about the date is down to the Civil War and Partition
The story of how the Irish State came into being 100 years ago this week
A momentous day was sullied by the violence of the Civil War, WT Cosgrave said when delivering the first speech in an independent State
Ex-Olympic champion pays tribute to relative executed in Civil War 100 years ago today
Michael Carruth’s great-uncle John Gaffney was one of the first republican prisoners to be shot
‘The Queen is slowly sinking’: How The Irish Times covered Victoria’s final hours
‘Men have been born, have had children born to them, and seen their children’s children, without ever knowing another Monarch’
‘Epochal’ – how The Irish Times reported the handover of Dublin Castle, 100 years ago today
Britain’s 1922 ‘surrender’ of Dublin Castle to Michael Collins was a hugely symbolic moment
‘The first step on a new path’: What The Irish Times thought of the Treaty vote
Dáil Éireann voted in favour of the Anglo Irish Treaty 100 years ago today
John Lennon was shot dead on this day in 1980. Here’s how The Irish Times paid tribute
We published six stories about the former Beatle, including the appreciation reproduced here
‘Belfast let itself go with a vengeance’: Reporting the king’s speech, 1921
King George V opened the Northern Parliament on this day 100 years ago, drawing huge crowds onto the streets
Archive report: ‘Residents accuse troops of terror’ in Ballymurphy, 1971
‘Before the troops came down they just fired away without any regard for our safety’
‘Half-way through lunch, we heard a terrible crash’: Interviews with Lusitania survivors
The passenger liner was torpedoed on this day in 1915 off Ireland’s southern coast
On this day 70 years ago The Irish Times published its most famous editorial
‘The Roman Catholic Church would seem to be the effective Government of this country’
‘Murder in the County Monaghan’: A case of ‘criminal lunacy’
In 1880, William Davidson was found not guilty of the murder of his stepfather
‘What’s done is done’: When an Offaly boatman murdered his fare - a British officer
In 1865, Lieutenant Clutterbuck hired a man to take him shooting on the River Brosna. He never returned to the barracks
The burning of Cork: When the fires stopped, many were left homeless and thousands jobless
Reports detailed devastation faced by residents in days after December 11th-12th, 1920
The Drunkenness (Ireland) Bill 1905: ‘Needlessly offensive to every Irishman’
Drink, temperance and Sunday closing: Attempts to root out Ireland’s ‘degrading vice’
Blackout 1939: When Ireland’s citizens were asked to pull together in crisis
Irresponsible youths used darkness as an opportunity for buffoonery and unseemly antics
The man with one hand and a bloody murder in Co Cavan
In 1864, years after losing his hand in an accident, Bernard Cangley visited his former boss
‘The old lady was glaring about’: When Dublin’s Queen Victoria statue was removed
‘Time has given the mere Irish their revenge . . . of hue she approaches our decent Irish letterbox’
Blood on the bog: A brother and sister hanged for an Offaly murder
150 years ago, Patrick Dunne’s ‘dying declaration’ helped convict his neighbours of his murder
Ireland and alcohol: Have we always seen ourselves as a nation of drinkers?
An Irish Times article from 1981 stated ‘drink and the Irish go together like gin and tonic’
‘Irish Mansions Mined and Burned’: 275 houses destroyed in four years
From the archive: The destruction of Irish country houses, or Big Houses, between 1919 and 1923 saw about 275 houses destroyed
Intelligence, will power and skill: Depicting homemaking in 1944
How Mother’s Day become mainstream ‘as appreciation of all the unselfish service’
Wakes, beggars and ‘bad air’: When typhus killed 65,000 people in Ireland
Irish newspapers have been covering the devastating effects of disease for centuries
On this day, 1895: Robbery, polar exploration and a cryptic classified ad
The Irish Times covered war abroad and a ‘hare-brained’ balloon ride
How did Yeats interpret his own poetry? A clue lies in an Irish Times article from 1923
From the archive: ‘Mr Yeats was enjoying the satisfaction of recognition in his own lifetime’
A ‘rival suitor’ shot in the face and Brown Thomas’s new silks
On this day, 1939: Crime at home, ‘wave of terrorism’ abroad and lots of classifieds
When the RIC opened fire on a crowd in Ennis during the Clare grain riots
In 1842, constables were deployed to protect grain stores from a ‘mob’ intent on ‘plunder’
A guide to Dublin’s old ‘junk’ markets
From the archive: ‘The true junk lover knows that time is even more essential than money to successful junk hunts’
Health Hints for the Home: ‘Try to ease the distress of the cough with soothing cough syrups’
The fifth of our series looking at the eight ‘Health Hints for the Home’ guidelines sent to Irish households in 1953. This week: Cough in Children
The long history of linen-making in Ireland
From the archive: In 1917, The Irish Times printed an article about ‘our debt to William III’ for his contribution to the Irish textile industry
A case of ‘criminal lunacy’: The sad killing of a Mayo pensioner
Newspapers dubbed the violent death of Honor Cunniffe in 1911 ‘the witch case’
Meath murder mystery: The case of the poison potato cake
In 1869, a trip to Carrickmacross turned deadly after a boy stumbled upon a parcel of provisions on the road home
‘Santa Claus is Coming!’ A Christmas Eve poem from 1885
From a Christmas edition past: ‘Has he toy-shops by the legion, In that far-off Polar region?’
The wild chase of a murderous ‘Cork tramp’ in Co Donegal
In 1870, a mob ran down a ‘ragged’ man after hearing rumours about a terrible crime in Glenties
Murdered in bed: The foul killing of Rosa di Lucia in Sligo
After the mysterious death of a woman in 1914, suspicion turned to her ice-cream vendor husband and their young servant
An extended history of health foods that caught the eye
Times past: Wholewheat and wholegrain breads became a staple for the health conscious
The Ballymote Slasher: Catching a Sligo triple-murderer
When the owners of a general shop were found murdered in 1861, police followed the money
Breast versus bottle debate raged in 19th-century Ireland
From the Archive: A reluctance among mothers to breastfeed coupled with poor hygiene was blamed for many infant deaths
A policeman tried to arrest a priest – the parishioners killed him
In 1889, a party of RIC officers attempted to detain a Catholic priest – charged with ‘conspiracy’ – at his chapel in Gweedore
‘Many disorders of middle-class women are due to the monotony of their lives’
In times gone by, strong tonic wines, coca and golf were seen as cures for cases of ‘nerves’
Do you have an old story to tell? We would like to hear it
Is there a story in your family’s past of historical significance, or an interesting tale from your area?
‘Danger in dirt’: The war on Ireland’s unhygienic households
The forgotten philanthropic work of the Women’s National Health Association
Seaside advice: Never swim under the influence of emotional excitement
Health advice for those opting for a staycation has long featured in The Irish Times
‘Fix bayonets’: When a fire ignited mayhem in the Liberties
In 1873, Dubliners watched the City Saw Mills burn – unaware of the pending violence
The Battle of Baldoyle: When the animal gangs went to the races
After a violent gang clash in 1940, gardaí found sticks, knuckledusters and a sword
A hat in the Shannon: The mysterious disappearance of an MP’s brother
In 1890, a man carrying cash went missing after failing to make his Westport connection
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