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The Irish Government has launched a new digital mapping project, listing all of the civilian and combatant fatalities of the Irish Civil War.

In the year that Wicklow got its first Taoiseach, the theme of the Parnell Society symposium is set to be ‘parliamentary tradition’, as another great political leader from the county is due to be remembered.

Allingham Arts Festival hears how Pauric Travers new assessment of Donegal in the revolutionary period expands and refines our understanding of the nature of th...

Review of Donegal: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 by Pauric Travers (Four Courts Press, £22.50/€24.95) VISITORS who arrive in Donegal from countries elsewhere, including from Britain, wonder at the incongruity. It is Ireland’s northern-most county yet it is “in the South.” Surely it makes no geographical sense. Naturally, they ask why?  How come it wasn’t hived off with those other six counties that comprise 'Northern Ireland'? After all, it’s in Ulster, isn’t it?  Alt...

New study focuses on Donegal during the revolutionary period of the early twentieth century.