Tanaiste and Minister for Defence, Simon Harris has confirmed that the Dept of Defence is to invest almost €5 million in the ...

That Pippa McIntosh’s history of Abbey Lea – the residence, located on the outskirts of Dublin, of the Australian ambassador ...

It’s a heart versus head thing. People in the south know full well that Britain subsidises the economy in the north to the ...

Ernest Blythe was born in 1889 into a unionist farming family with an 80-acre farm close to Magheragall, near Lisburn.

Leading academics explore the causes and consequences of the Partition of Ireland in a series of authored talks, developed by Queen’s University Belfast with support from the BBC. A series of talks on ...

The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

Government council said the State had been put in a 'difficult position', as its policy regarding sensitive State security ...

Four inspiring historical Irish women we should all know. We all know the men in our history books but what about the women?

To aid in navigation:” the political economy of cotton in the Portuguese Empire. In 1790, British envoy Robert Walpole asked Luís Pinto de Sousa Coutinho, the Portuguese Sec ...

The Anishnaabe Nations of Robinson Superior Treaty entered talks last month expecting a settlement offer in the dozens of billions – a lot more than the $3.6B offer Canada and Ontario made.

The Dubliner is Boston’s hottest Irish pub right now, and the newly opened McGonagle’s Pub in Dorchester is right on track to join the ranks as a local favorite. Both are welcoming ...

The Irish economy grew by just 0.3 per cent last year as volatility in the multinational sector weighed on headline growth, according to preliminary estimates from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).