‘Days of doom’: The Irish Times editorial the day following D-Day
June, 1944: ‘The world is watching these prodigious events with bated breath’
June, 1944: ‘The world is watching these prodigious events with bated breath’
A lane in Dublin city centre is to be closed to the public due to persistent antisocial behaviour - it has some murky mentions in The Irish Times archive going back decades
100 years on, the trauma of a doctor’s killing still ripples through the town
Plaque erected to Thomas Bryan, great-uncle of the singer Boy George, executed over a Drumcondra ambush
Letter from Stephen Buckley – killed at Countess Bridge, Killarney – crossed the Atlantic twice before it reached his mother
Statement of Ballyseedy survivor should be read into record to ‘correct’ official account of ‘atrocity’, conference hears
The messages, written while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, were mistakenly listed as Italian texts in France’s national library
The archive of civil rights campaigner Kevin Boyle provides a ‘powerful first-hand account’ of events
Ambivalence about the date is down to the Civil War and Partition
A momentous day was sullied by the violence of the Civil War, WT Cosgrave said when delivering the first speech in an independent State
Michael Carruth’s great-uncle John Gaffney was one of the first republican prisoners to be shot
‘Men have been born, have had children born to them, and seen their children’s children, without ever knowing another Monarch’
Britain’s 1922 ‘surrender’ of Dublin Castle to Michael Collins was a hugely symbolic moment
Dáil Éireann voted in favour of the Anglo Irish Treaty 100 years ago today
We published six stories about the former Beatle, including the appreciation reproduced here
King George V opened the Northern Parliament on this day 100 years ago, drawing huge crowds onto the streets
‘Before the troops came down they just fired away without any regard for our safety’
The passenger liner was torpedoed on this day in 1915 off Ireland’s southern coast
‘The Roman Catholic Church would seem to be the effective Government of this country’
In 1880, William Davidson was found not guilty of the murder of his stepfather
In 1865, Lieutenant Clutterbuck hired a man to take him shooting on the River Brosna. He never returned to the barracks
Reports detailed devastation faced by residents in days after December 11th-12th, 1920
Drink, temperance and Sunday closing: Attempts to root out Ireland’s ‘degrading vice’
Irresponsible youths used darkness as an opportunity for buffoonery and unseemly antics
In 1864, years after losing his hand in an accident, Bernard Cangley visited his former boss
‘Time has given the mere Irish their revenge . . . of hue she approaches our decent Irish letterbox’
150 years ago, Patrick Dunne’s ‘dying declaration’ helped convict his neighbours of his murder
An Irish Times article from 1981 stated ‘drink and the Irish go together like gin and tonic’
From the archive: The destruction of Irish country houses, or Big Houses, between 1919 and 1923 saw about 275 houses destroyed
How Mother’s Day become mainstream ‘as appreciation of all the unselfish service’
Irish newspapers have been covering the devastating effects of disease for centuries
The Irish Times covered war abroad and a ‘hare-brained’ balloon ride
From the archive: ‘Mr Yeats was enjoying the satisfaction of recognition in his own lifetime’
On this day, 1939: Crime at home, ‘wave of terrorism’ abroad and lots of classifieds
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices