Second World War

Britain will celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day at a time when its national identity is being roiled by immigration rows

Notorious second World War incident is still cited today by those critical of Ireland

Everyone who encounters the Holocaust becomes implicated, a new witness to the mystery and the horror, with the responsibility to recount its history honestly

Given our dependence on electric power, delivery of modern interconnector should be faster than one built in wartime

Concentration camp where Anne Frank, her sister Margot and some 70,000 others died stands as a warning for the future

I’m not advocating rationing, but I wish we could pay more attention to relationships between our bodies, our kitchens and our governments

Senior Nazi Walther Rauff and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s lives were linked by brutality, death and the evasion of justice

He was shot down twice in the space of eight days, but went on to outlive all his contemporaries

Desire to live and work abroad on show at Dublin Irish art sales

With death of John Hemingway, Ian d’Alton examines motivations of ‘The Few’

The London-Irish writer on her latest novel, Murder at Gull’s Nest; being diagnosed autistic in her late 40s; and how she writes ‘with an Irish accent’

Donald Trump expressed surprise at the very high number of recipients having roots in Ireland – and it seems he may be on to something

Born in 1919, the Dubliner flew Spitfires during the Battle of Britain

At least four Eurostar trains cancelled after discovery of bomb 2.5km from Gare du Nord train station

Maura Delpero has based her deserving Venice prize-winner on her own family’s wartime experiences

After wandering through the War and the Mind exhibition, we emerge blinking into the London sunshine pondering the fragility of everything

Party doubled its support to win 152 seats in the Bundestag in Sunday’s federal vote

Far-right parties are pushing a new approach which casts Germans as the main victims of the second World War

Rite & Reason: Does its tortured history give Israel the right to propose its own rules of combat that fly in the face of UN protocols of war?

February 2nd-7th: including Amandaland, Miss Austen, and Samantha Mumba’s crack at Eurovision

‘Last milestone anniversary’ will see political leaders, including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, listening to survivors’ voices rather than making speeches

As the world remembers the Holocaust, some Germans see a period ahead that echoes the widespread amnesia in the postwar period

By upholding international law, we ensure the lessons of the second World War endure. It is incumbent on us to call out violations wherever these occur and to promote accountability

Monday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp

As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back

Joe Veselsky (106) made his mark on Ireland after his parents and brother died in Auschwitz

Soviet history specialist covers the repatriation and resettlement of millions after second World War

Described as ‘illiteracy’s most famous product’, what Robertson lacked in skill he made up for in tenacity under the cloud of Nazi occupation

Future president felt Ireland was ‘not too badly off’ and was apathetic towards partition

The proud, stubborn and courageous Monaghan man chose a path which led to his premature death

Patrick Cockburn remains detached but proud of father’s career as determined, ruthless revolutionary

Theatre: Sandra O Malley delivers a career-defining performance in Blue Raincoat’s meticulous production of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play

Once the cornerstone of the country’s remembrance culture, the slogan’s meaning has become increasingly blurred

Francesco Lotoro’s research is unclear and ignores how music-making in the Nazi camps was sometimes a form of torture

Temporary capital during wartime engaged American military aviation advice and training for the Flying Tigers to fend off aerial bombing by the Japanese

Just before the second World War broke out, in 1938 the New Industries (Development) Act sought to lure employers to the North. It helped some escape the evil of the Nazis

Hundreds of volunteers have helped unearth artefacts at site in St Anne’s Park

Sunil Amrith brilliantly portrays how our dominance over nature has been self-serving and destructive, a corrosive colonisation of Earth for which he doubts there is a mass global solution

Prime minister Donald Tusk says lessons of the past, and present Russian aggression, underline importance of strong defence

The far-right Alternative for Germany party’s Björn Höcke wants a ‘180-degree shift’ in the country’s view of its past and condemns the postwar ‘guilt cult’