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 ...

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

In material submitted to Mr Reynolds for his draft speech on a Dáil confidence debate ... note was in fact first drawn up during Mr Éamon de Valera’s term of office as taoiseach by the-then ...

Draft speech notes prepared for him included references to briefing materials dating back to the tenure of Éamon de Valera with regard to the promotion of an attorney general. Mr Reynolds said he ...

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

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

Liam Neeson starred as the Big Fella - alongside other A-listers like Julia Roberts as Collins' fiancée Kitty and Alan ...

1970: Riots break out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. On the same day, Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. 1973: President Nixon orders a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam ...

De Valera san Fhásach (De Valera in the Desert) is a new historical documentary series that presents the vital story of de Valera’s Wilderness years from 1924 to 1926 when he was imprisoned ...