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It is incredible that anyone would defend the history of British imperialism in Ireland as John F Hyland did – ‘British Empire brought great benefit to Ireland’ (August 17).

A GREAT crowd turned out on Monday morning in Lombard Street in Belfast city centre for the unveiling by Belfast Ard Mheara Ryan Murphy of a very fine statue of Frederick Douglass, escaped slave and human rights campaigner. It is a striking image of Douglass, who is an iconic figure for his work on campaigning for an end to slavery and for equality and justice for African Americans and for women. He visited Ireland in 1845-46, just before the worst years of the Great Hunger. 

A great crowd turned out on Monday morning in Lombard Street in Belfast City Centre for the unveiling by Belfast City Ard Mheara (Lord Mayor) Ryan ...

As the country prepares to remember and commemorate the fight for Irish independence, brothers Paddy, Timothy, Michael and Jerome Kelly remember the fireside stories about their Uncle William 

MICHAEL Portillo has been on two major career journeys: one in Tory politics, which ended in spectacular failure, and now a second as a gaily-clad TV presenter journeying to different countries and back to different time periods. Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War (RTÉ ONE) takes him on a 100-year journey back in time to early 1920s Ireland. 

November 1922 saw a general sweep by Free Staters through Donegal in an effort to end Republican opposition in the county. This sweep was successful in that it captured the vast bulk of Volunteers ...

I want to recommend that you make friends with a tree. Any tree. Pick one in your local park or glen or up on a mountain. Get up close and friendly...

By Christmas of 1922 it was clear that the Free State Government had all but won the war. They had executed 21 republican prisoners in jails and internment camps. Thousands of prisoners were held i...

Nestled to the east of Dublin city centre, East Wall was built to house the families of dockers, street traders and crafts people, who had previously been shoved into tenements and inadequate flat complexes.

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...