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As the assassination of Michael Collins commemorates 100 years in 2022, Niall O'Dowd writes about how it altered Ireland's history.

This photo was taken in 1909 on a very special occasion. They were the first Athlone people to receive the new old-age pension. 

There is no question that if Michael Collins had not died, Irish history would have been changed utterly. 

On this day, Aug 3, 1823, General Brigadier Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford in southeast Ireland. In honor of his birthday, we look at the astounding biography of the  American Civil War hero and leader of the Irish Brigade. Thomas Francis Meagher, is truly an immortal Irishman.

Here Dermot McEvoy writes about the diplomat and Irish nationalist Roger Casement's unlikely friendship with John Devoy, the Irish republican rebel and journalist.