So the script lay abandoned at his feet, witness to the oratorical skills of Michael D Higgins as he launched into his speech ...

Supporting the Irish rebels from London was not a popular move at the time, especially for a British woman already fighting for voting rights in her country ...

The 1996 film Michael Collins, starring Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts and Alan Rickman, has been uploaded to YouTube by Warner ...

Ireland’s recent criticism of Israel’s policies and the ongoing war against Hamas and Hezbollah caused Israel to close its ...

Just as Northern Ireland’s first education minister and others legitimised Hitler in the 1930s, much of the media and ...

INTEMPERATE VIEWS Oliver J Flanagan, an antisemitic arch-conservative, loomed large on the Irish landscape for 40 four years.

In his New Year message, Archbishop Eamon Martin spoke of how civilian areas of Gaza, and other countries, were routinely bombarded with hi-tech weaponry. He also echoed calls from Pope Francis to ...

New Sinn Fein's push into Southern Irish Politics has caused the greatest realignment in the Irish political landscape since Éamon de Valera's decision to form Fianna Fail in 1926 and contest the 1927 ...

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland J.G. Moore gave the moon rock to then-President Éamon de Valera in 1970, but records showed that debate over where the rock would be displayed led to years of ...

The rock, which had traveled almost 240,000 miles from the moon to Earth, was presented to then-President Éamon de Valera in 1970 by U.S. Ambassador J.G. Moore. However, a lack of clarity over ...

The rock journeyed from the moon to the Earth in 1969 before being gifted to former President Éamon de Valera as a diplomatic gesture by US Ambassador J. G. Moore in 1970. As NASA owns 85 percent of ...

His father later wrote to President Éamon de Valera expressing his gratitude for the welcome he received, especially in Co Wexford. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive The father of the late US ...