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# irish-history - Saturday 16 May, 2020
They were called 'dirty Irish bloodhounds'. Life as an emigrant servant in the early 20th Century
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
Quiz: Michael Collins is on TV again tonight - how well do you know the movie?
Test your knowledge of the 1996 classic.
# irish-history - Tuesday 21 January, 2020
Another lost World War II ÉIRE sign has been discovered at Wexford’s Hook Head
A local group discovered the image, after searching based on an old aerial photo.
# irish-history - Tuesday 14 January, 2020
Opinion: 'Taoiseach, discussing a united Ireland is still possible - despite the RIC debacle'
Caoimhín de Barra looks at the possible compromises we would face if a united Ireland became a reality
# irish-history - Friday 27 December, 2019
'Does my Granny hold the secret to who stole the Crown Jewels from Dublin Castle?'
Filmmaker Oisín Mistéil set out to answer that question in a new documentary to be aired tomorrow.
# irish-history - Thursday 5 December, 2019
Tributes to Professor Séamus Lawless, who died on Mt Everest, as project to restore Four Courts documents launched
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
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: 'The ablest of all the fearless women who worked for Ireland’s freedom'
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
FactCheck: No, hundreds of thousands of Irish people were not sold as slaves in the 17th century
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: The hidden Dublin graveyard that's more than 1,000 years old
The many plots of Bully Acre’s incredible past.
# irish-history - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
Double Take: The bench in St Stephen's Green celebrating a little-known married couple
The story of social reformers, Anna and Thomas Haslam.
# irish-history - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
Bullets, ballots and a flu pandemic: Life in Ireland was very turbulent 100 years ago
The National Library of Ireland has launched its latest exhibition, which will run until May 2019.
# irish-history - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
Double Take: The street in a Sligo town mysteriously named after Buenos Aires
Don’t cry for Strandhill, Argentina.
# irish-history - Sunday 19 November, 2017
David McCullagh on Eamon de Valera: 'People tended either to love him or to loath him'
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
This 1,000 page, 5kg atlas challenges the usual story of Ireland's revolutionary history
We spoke to one of its editors.
# irish-history - Wednesday 13 September, 2017
10 truly priceless Irish objects discovered by the lovely National Treasures project
Torcs and lanulas are great, but what about an Italia 90 tea tin?
# irish-history - Sunday 19 March, 2017
FactFind: One year in, is this really a "do-nothing" Dáil?
We take a deeper look at how the 32nd Dáil compares to its predecessors.
# irish-history - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
Ireland looks set to get a national commemoration day for the Great Famine
The day put forward is the second Sunday in May every year.
# irish-history - Friday 30 December, 2016
Soldiers, sailors, diplomats: The forgotten Irish who changed Latin America
In this extract from his book Paisanos, Tim Fanning tells the story of army officer Alexander O’Reilly.
# irish-history - Tuesday 6 December, 2016
Hunt for family of 1916 hero who created iconic tricolour
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: Has no government minister ever gone before the Public Accounts Committee?
Will Michael Noonan be the first sitting minister to go to the PAC? Or is Leo Varadkar wrong?
# irish-history - Saturday 17 September, 2016
A Nazi programme and GAA medals are among pieces of Irish history soon to go on sale
The auction in Kilkenny features over 800 lots.
# irish-history - Saturday 10 September, 2016
Only True Irish History Buffs Will Get Over 80% In This Quiz
Get your thinking caps on.
# irish-history - Tuesday 26 July, 2016
FactCheck: No, "Irish slaves" did NOT build the White House
FactCheck debunks a false claim that has gone viral after a major speech by Michelle Obama, last night.
# irish-history - Tuesday 22 March, 2016
Here's how you can shape the living history of Ireland next month
Make your mark on Irish history.
# irish-history - Friday 26 February, 2016
Every vote counts: The closest election results in recent Irish history
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
When fear and hatred of Irish Catholics set fire to an American city
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
Your Christmas Day in front of the telly, December 1962
Teilifís Éireann’s first ever TV Christmas, 53 years ago.
# irish-history - Thursday 24 December, 2015
What Ireland looked like on every White Christmas since 1964
What did we watch on RTE in 1964? Who had the Christmas No 1 during the Big Freeze of 2010?
WATCH: Santa visits the children of Dublin in 1948
Best day ever.
# irish-history - Wednesday 23 December, 2015
WATCH: Relive a 1940s Irish Christmas with these magical archive videos
Snowball fights, the Christmas Day swim, and grown men acting like little children – more than 70 years ago.
# irish-history - Monday 21 December, 2015
Christmas at Clerys: A century of bittersweet memories
How much for a bag of toy soldiers?
# irish-history - Sunday 11 October, 2015
We've found 73 MILLION old £20 notes behind the couch since the euro arrived
€4.1 billion in punts, overall. That’s a hell of a lot of Communion money.
# irish-history - Sunday 26 July, 2015
WATCH: A treasure trove of old Irish newsreels has gone online for the first time
Walt Disney meets Dev, Miss Ireland 1942, and the ESB in Bahrain, 1977.
# irish-history - Sunday 19 July, 2015
10 tips for offbeat travellers in Ireland
If you like exploring Irish history, stories and eccentricities then read on…
# irish-history - Saturday 4 July, 2015
These everyday objects bring a century of Irish history to life online
Two new exhibitions chronicle the defining decades of modern Irish history.
# irish-history - Saturday 20 June, 2015
Which Era of Irish History Should You Have Lived In?
You would have loved it too.
# irish-history - Tuesday 2 June, 2015
Is this Ireland's oldest Tayto bag?
From waaaay back in 2001.
# irish-history - Sunday 3 May, 2015
Read the diary of an Irish priest in the World War I trenches
You can now read his diaries online.
# irish-history - Thursday 23 April, 2015
PHOTOS: Tracing the footsteps of one of the Great Famine's darkest chapters
In May 1847, 1,490 people from Strokestown, Co Roscommon set out for Canada. Less than half of them made it there.
# irish-history - Monday 13 April, 2015
To thee I do wed: A century of marriage in Ireland
How was it when your parents and grandparents got hitched? And how does today’s Ireland compare?
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Poll: Have you been on or are you planning a staycation this year?
WITH INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL essentially off the cards for the rest of the year, it seems a lot of people have bought into the concept of a staycation at home here in Ireland.
Social media platforms are flooded with #staycation posts in what will hopefully boost businesses in domestic tourism following a devastating period for the sector.
But with a spike in new cases in recent days, a regional lockdown in the Midlands, and new measures this week including the mandatory wearing of face masks in all shops and commercial premises, fears are mounting that we could be entering a second wave.
So today we’re asking: Have you been on or are you planning a staycation this year?
Poll Results:
Yes, I've already been on a staycation (2974)
No, I haven't been and have no plans for a staycation (2146)
Yes, I have a staycation planned in the coming months (1764)
No, I have not been on a staycation (650)
Yes, but I am going to cancel my planned staycation (182)
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Opinion: 'An unjustified panic against all international travel has developed in Ireland'
By Robert Dagg
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