The Dáil’s floodgates have opened and led to some Michael Collins cussin’
The Independent Ireland leader seemed to momentarily forget where he was during a watery Uisce Éireann debate
Michael Collins
Independent Ireland leader ‘not happy at all’ with councillor seeking to halt Bob Vylan gig in Dublin
Linda de Courcy took legal proceedings to try to stop a Dublin concert by controversial punk-rap duo
Conor Gearty: Law professor, barrister and globally acclaimed human rights scholar
Longford-born civil liberties advocate was appointed honorary queen’s counsel in recognition of services to law in England and Wales
Harsh life of soldier Johnnie Haughey bore privileged fruit in son Charles
One hundred years on from his birth, all the late former taoiseach’s biographers have speculated on the impact of his impoverished childhood
Michael Collins’s legacy honoured by sending Irish troops on peacekeeping missions, says Carroll MacNeill
Minister for Health addressed risks of violence against politicians during Béal na Bláth oration
The new IRB: a band of conspiracy theorists who have set up a parallel Irish ‘government’
This fringe group, drawn from the ranks of anti-lockdown protesters and business people laid low by the crash, have a cabinet, local co-ops and even a network of ‘courts’
What did Éamon de Valera ever do for us?
Ireland’s memory of Éamon de Valera is complicated by many factors. Diarmaid Ferriter assesses the competing perspectives
These Divided Isles: Ireland and UK shared history told with ‘reliable pithiness’
Philip Stephens describes the record of British political leaders with regard to Ireland as one of ‘insouciant neglect’
Was Michael Collins behind plan for French military airfields in Ireland?
UCC historian Jerome Aan de Wiel unearths diplomatic archive material showing Collins’s associate overture to French intelligence
I got a text saying, would I like to meet The Rest Is History podcasters? Would I what?
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have a genuine interest in Irish history – when I got a chance to discuss Michael Collins and Henry Wilson with them I jumped at it
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to deliver annual Michael Collins address at Béal na Bláth
Event will take place on August 24th
Kinsale flotilla set to protest 23-hectare mussel farm
Locals in Co Cork town are angered at license approval for farm
Film director Neil Jordan and the Éamon de Valera connection
“Did de Valera have a hand in Collins’s death?” he asks. “Probably not, but he could have prevented it".
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