2023 marks the 25th anniversary of signing of The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, which brought an end to 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland known as 'the Troubles'. This conflict had a deep ...

The Irish and American revolutions were united by a common foe – the British, but the differences between the two revolutions are more numerous than the similarities. The Irish revolution was both a ...

Robert Emmet, the Irish republican leader. said he wished to secure for Ireland “the guarantee which Washington procured for ...

He was one of the key leaders of the 1916 “Easter Rising” armed insurrection that ended with his execution but paved the way for most of Ireland to win its independence from Britain. But before that, ...

Eoin McLaughlin and Seán Kenny of University College Cork on the economic lessons to be drawn from Ireland’s 1922 split from the UK From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get ...

Heart-breaking, human and very personal accounts of the suffering endured during the period of the War of Independence and Civil War are to be released in April 2023. A series of files consisting of ...

1922 and all that: Ireland had a reality check after gaining independence. EPA The UK local elections in May saw gains for nationalists in Scotland and Northern Ireland, raising the prospect of ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of members of Ireland's armed forces marched through Dublin on Sunday to mark 100 years since the Easter 1916 uprising, the defining moment of an independence struggle ...

On Easter Monday 33 years ago a pale, impassioned schoolmaster named Patrick Pearse marched out of the door of Dublin’s General Post Office, hauled a flag of green, white and orange to the peak of the ...

WT Cosgrave stood up in the Dáil on December 6, 1922, and delivered a speech that the newborn state should have been eager to hear. The President of the Executive Council was speaking immediately ...