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The Temple Bar – Templemore, Co. Tipperary

To finish out the national Decade of Centenaries on Thursday, a special reflection, entitled ‘Remember and Renew takes place in Cork city.

Former RTÉ journalist Fergal Keane has found gelignite that may have been stolen during the Soloheadbeg ambush

What was in the news 100 years ago today? Richard Forrest reports in his weekly Echoes of our Past column

In recent years, a number of documents clarifying the role of the Pistole 08 Luger in the Irish War of Independence have been discovered. Here, the authors provide context and identifying information for a number of Lugers known to have been used in Ireland during the country's fight for freedom.

A local historian who observed the removal operation had hoped that the grenade could be “preserved for a museum”, but it was ultimately destroyed.

4 September 2023 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr. Kieran McCarthy has put a call-out to Cork GAA clubs to have their Decade of Centenaries commemorative jerseys featured in the upcoming Cork Commemorative Jersey exhibition. The exhibition, which will commence in late September at the Public Museum in Fitzgerald’s Park, features…

The exhibition, which will commence later this month, will feature local club and Cork intercounty jerseys.

Historian Richard T Cooke looks back at the part the famous park has played in the lives of Corkonians

Familiar figures involved in tomorrow’s game in Tullamore.