Pope Francis situates the need for hope in the challenging world of ‘gloomy discouragement and ill-concealed cynicism’ ...

Books on the Famine, the Troubles, the Aran Islands and Gaza, and an account by the daughter of Dominique Pelicot of how she ...

Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978 ...

Bill Clinton overruled objections to let Gerry Adams fundraise – and to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in White House ...

President Mary Robinson ’s visit to meet Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace in May 1993 was a historic first for an ...

While Australian police in Canberra contacted department officials in Ireland to help track down his relatives back home, a ...

But with their backs against the wall, the visitors showed immense belief to deny Connacht even a losing bonus point.

Then- SDLP leader John Hume failed to look after the interests of his party in the 1990s when he was trying to persuade the ...

Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl’s notorious film Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) was already controversial when ...

Government ministers reasoned that Irish-manufactured arms might threaten Irish neutrality and also bring international ...

Future Israeli prime minister defended opposition to Palestinian statehood and downplayed settlements and occupations ...

Former House of Commons speaker George Thomas, who was proposed to chair Anglo-Irish talks in the 1990s, was “bitchy”, ...