History: Súil Siar

The Architect of No. 42. O'Connell Street

No 42. O'Connell Street, Dublin 1, is a terraced three-bay four-storey Georgian town house. The house was built around 1752, a very...

A Scottish song on Rathlin Island

Fear a’ bhàta (or ‘The boatman’) is a Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) song of heart break which is very popular in Scotland, "among English...

Seán Treacy remembered

Learn more about the revolutionary who helped to ignite Ireland's War of Independence.

The Significance of Casement’s Putamayo Journal, 1910

Brian Guerin This article was originally published online in November 2006 at http://homepage.eircom.net/~guerin/tfmnov2006.pdf The...

Hallowe'en Customs of Ireland

The Freeman's Journal (30 October 1920) reported that people would play practical jokes such as knock on doors or steal farmers' gates,

Michael O'Reilly and the longest hunger strike

The Limerick man was one of nine who survived 94 days of a world-famous hunger strike in 1920.

A beginner's guide to Irish political parties

This video gives context to the modern Irish political parties, north and south. Suitable for those with little contextual knowledge.

The Green Party's Record as Coalition Partner, 2007-11

The 2011 budget was described as the most draconian budget in the history of the State, with €6 billion worth of cuts to the state budget.

1798 Rebellion Centre to be sold

Wexford County Council will offload Enniscorthy's National 1798 Rebellion Centre, leaving the exhibition with no permanent home.

The Irish Bulletin

In 1906 Arthur Griffith compared the communication gap between Ireland and the outside world to a "wall of paper".

Nora O'Keeffe and the Irish revolution

The Cumann na mBan activist and publicist was one of many women to the fore of promoting the republican message. In a recent biography of...