Tanaiste and Minister for Defence, Simon Harris has confirmed that the Dept of Defence is to invest almost €5 million in the upgrading of accommodation for up to 20 officers at Collins Barracks in ...

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.

Ireland thus had the unusual distinction of having had a foreign policy and a diplomatic service before there was an internationally recognised independent Irish state. The origins of the modern ...

It – not the Anglo-Irish Treaty – partitioned the island. Working with the Liberals in Westminster in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, the Irish Parliamentary Party advanced the cause of Home ...

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

Assuming you don’t live there, think about the last time you thought about Northern Ireland. Events there are routinely ignored in the UK media, despite it being an integral component of the United ...

On pragmatic grounds he supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 6 1921. On December 7 1922 anti-treaty IRA gunmen shot two pro-treaty TDs in Dublin, killing one and badly wounding the other ...

For much of the world’s populace, particularly the Arab community, displaying dignity, pride, courage, and resilience in the ...

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 ...