# irish-history - Tuesday 17 August, 2021
# Heritage Week
# Heritage Week
The annual heritage week takes a hybrid approach this year, with events in-person and online.
# irish-history - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# Irish History
# Irish History
GunPlot is a new TV Documentary and podcast series from RTÉ on the Arms Crisis of 1970. Researcher on the TV documentary, Róisín O’Dea looks at the crisis fifty years on …
# irish-history - Wednesday 14 April, 2021
# TG4
# TG4
Cuan Ó Seireadáin discusses 6 Harcourt Street, which is the subject of a TG4 documentary tonight.
# irish-history - Tuesday 22 December, 2020
# Irish History
# Irish History
There was no escaping the Spanish question in Ireland in the twelve months after the summer of 1936, write Barry McLoughlin and Emmet O’Connor
# irish-history - Saturday 16 May, 2020
# History
# History
Catherine Healy is hoping to gather the stories of domestic servants who worked abroad in the lead up to WW II.
# irish-history - Monday 13 April, 2020
# Irish History
# Irish History
Test your knowledge of the 1996 classic.
# irish-history - Tuesday 21 January, 2020
# Irish History
# Irish History
A local group discovered the image, after searching based on an old aerial photo.
# irish-history - Tuesday 14 January, 2020
# United Ireland
# United Ireland
Caoimhín de Barra looks at the possible compromises we would face if a united Ireland became a reality
# irish-history - Friday 27 December, 2019
# Irish History
# Irish History
Filmmaker Oisín Mistéil set out to answer that question in a new documentary to be aired tomorrow.
# irish-history - Thursday 5 December, 2019
# Civil War
# Civil War
Historical records destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts at the beginning of the Irish Civil War have been restored digitally.
# irish-history - Sunday 1 December, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
Sheehy Skeffington fought for equality and the republican cause – but why wasn’t she put forward as a candidate in the crucial 1918 election?
# irish-history - Friday 29 November, 2019
# Irish History
# Irish History
Posts on social media have stated that Irish ‘slaves’ were treated as poorly as African slaves during this period.
# irish-history - Wednesday 24 October, 2018
# Double Take
# Double Take
The many plots of Bully Acre’s incredible past.
# irish-history - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
# Double Take
# Double Take
The story of social reformers, Anna and Thomas Haslam.
# irish-history - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
# NLI
# NLI
The National Library of Ireland has launched its latest exhibition, which will run until May 2019.
# irish-history - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
# Double Take
# Double Take
Don’t cry for Strandhill, Argentina.
# irish-history - Sunday 19 November, 2017
# Opinion
# Opinion
It’s difficult to be even-handed about someone who arouses such strong emotions, four decades after his death, writes David McCullagh.
# irish-history - Sunday 12 November, 2017
# irish-history - Wednesday 13 September, 2017
# National Treasures
From The Daily Edge
# National Treasures
Torcs and lanulas are great, but what about an Italia 90 tea tin?
# irish-history - Sunday 19 March, 2017
# All The Facts
# All The Facts
We take a deeper look at how the 32nd Dáil compares to its predecessors.
# irish-history - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
# Remembrance
# Remembrance
The day put forward is the second Sunday in May every year.
# irish-history - Friday 30 December, 2016
# EXTRACT
# EXTRACT
In this extract from his book Paisanos, Tim Fanning tells the story of army officer Alexander O’Reilly.
# irish-history - Tuesday 6 December, 2016
# Family Fortunes
# Family Fortunes
Thomas Meldon was one of three men who created the tricolour which flew at Jacob’s factory during the Easter Rising.
# irish-history - Wednesday 21 September, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Will Michael Noonan be the first sitting minister to go to the PAC? Or is Leo Varadkar wrong?
# irish-history - Saturday 17 September, 2016
# Window Into The Past
# Window Into The Past
The auction in Kilkenny features over 800 lots.
# irish-history - Saturday 10 September, 2016
# History Repeating
From The Daily Edge
# History Repeating
Get your thinking caps on.
# irish-history - Tuesday 26 July, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
FactCheck debunks a false claim that has gone viral after a major speech by Michelle Obama, last night.
# irish-history - Tuesday 22 March, 2016
# irish-history - Friday 26 February, 2016
# The Agony And The Ex Td
# The Agony And The Ex Td
The man who won a Dáil seat by one vote tells us: “It was an awful way to win, but a terrible way to lose.”
# irish-history - Sunday 3 January, 2016
# Street Wars
# Street Wars
What an explosive, forgotten 172-year-old chapter in Irish-American history can teach us about the world today.
# irish-history - Friday 25 December, 2015
# Ye Olde Idiot Box
# Ye Olde Idiot Box
Teilifís Éireann’s first ever TV Christmas, 53 years ago.
# irish-history - Thursday 24 December, 2015
# The Ones We Used To Know
# The Ones We Used To Know
What did we watch on RTE in 1964? Who had the Christmas No 1 during the Big Freeze of 2010?
# irish-history - Wednesday 23 December, 2015
# Winter Wonderland
# Winter Wonderland
Snowball fights, the Christmas Day swim, and grown men acting like little children – more than 70 years ago.
# irish-history - Monday 21 December, 2015
# irish-history - Sunday 11 October, 2015
# Cash In The Attic
# Cash In The Attic
€4.1 billion in punts, overall. That’s a hell of a lot of Communion money.
# irish-history - Sunday 26 July, 2015
# The Past Is Another Country
# The Past Is Another Country
Walt Disney meets Dev, Miss Ireland 1942, and the ESB in Bahrain, 1977.
# irish-history - Sunday 19 July, 2015
# Column
# Column
If you like exploring Irish history, stories and eccentricities then read on…
# irish-history - Saturday 4 July, 2015
# First World War
# First World War
Two new exhibitions chronicle the defining decades of modern Irish history.
# irish-history - Saturday 20 June, 2015
# Quiz
From The Daily Edge
# Quiz
You would have loved it too.
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