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The remarkable father and son story behind two books on the history of republican activism in Leitrim and Longford which have been updated and republished.

Clonfin, a documentary film about the North Longford Flying Column and the Clonfin ambush of 1921, will be released online on Wednesday, October 26. The film wi...

By September 1922 the Irish civil war had raged for nearly three months in a summer that saw the deaths of some of the Irish Revolution’s most prominent l...

Brigadier Seamus Devins, my mother's cousin, was among "Noble Six," as they've become to be known, who were killed by Free State forces in Co Sligo in 1922.

By mid-September 1922 the Republican forces were on the retreat throughout Ireland and were reverting to rural guerrilla tactics while the Free State controlled the cities and towns.

A pivotal moment in South Longfords military campaign during the War of Independence was market at a solemn ceremony in Ballymahon last Friday, August 19. The ...

Two of Longford’s fallen heroes from the War of Independence, Seán Connolly and Tom Kelleher, will be remembered at a commemoration on Sunday, Augu...

The pro-Treaty rally hosted by Michael Collins on Cork’s Grand Parade on Sunday 12 March was deemed a success. The following day, before taking the afternoon train back to Dublin, Michael took the time with Diarmuid Fawsitt from the Provisional government...

IT’S the end of an era for The Nationalist and Frank White as he pens his final Times Past column this week. The Clonegal man has written for The Nationalist…

Picture caption: Military representatives, from left, Seán Mac Eoin (pro-Treaty), Seán Moylan (anti), Eoin O’Duffy (pro), Liam Lynch (anti), Gearói...