Dublin Civic Trust,

Learn about the Irish Cholera Epidemic in 1832 in the city slums and Dublin tenements. The Sisters of Charity in Dublin became the nurses at the temporary hospitals. Mary Aikenhead had a dream to open a hospital for the poor in Dublin and she achieved this.

The infamous organisation known as the Hellfire Club are the subject of many tales of debauchery and evil deeds. But just how true are these stories?

Tyneside’s forgotten fight for Irish freedom

Dublin in late medieval times: small, smelly, busy and holy

Independence might not have happened without the IRA, historian says

Two charts and seventeen maps, showing how the languages of Britain and Ireland have changed since the Roman rule of Britannia ended 1600 years ago! First, check out this GIF I made! When most people think of the languages of Britain and Ireland, they probably think of English. It’s the language pretty much everybody speaks, […]

It is not often that the British media pays attention to Irish foreign policy decisions. It is even rarer for an Irish foreign policy decision to get more coverage in Britain than in Ireland. That is exactly what happened last week.

Sex, violence, greed, money, sport, defiance, music, books, religion, recriminations, revenge, reconciliation and redemption. The story of the last 100 years is a gutsy one. It is a story of the animal spirits, of appetites, of sensuality, of emotion, of the baser things and the things that are the very essence of a life lived fully.

How was the Irish Border drawn in the first place?

Cosgrave and de Valera were on different sides of the revolutionary generation; Lemass was of the same generation but a revolutionary of a different kind when he came to office, late in life but bursting with impatient ideas.

The history of the Irish Border: From Plantation to Brexit

Diarmaid Ferriter: Tory Brexiteers should study War of Independence

Sexual violence a dark secret of War of Independence and Civil War

The Irish war of independence as seen by the international press

State papers: Ireland has ‘moral claim’ to paintings, UK’s National Gallery admits