Death on Ireland’s Eye: tragedy and mystery on a lonely patch of rocky shore

Despite the media circus at the time, many questions remain about the death of Maria Kirwan on the small island in September 1852

‘The Hist’: 250 years of self-indulgent theatrics and transformative debate

Trinity’s College Historical Society has had an impact on Irish life and world events

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What is Jacob Rees-Mogg’s problem with Charles Stewart Parnell?

Irish leader was famous for his obstructionist tactics at Westminster

Church of Ireland marks 150 years since end of role as state church

A unique institution continues to accommodate those people of divergent political views

Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness

Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....

The history of the Irish Border: From Plantation to Brexit

With the threat of a hard border looming, we look at how Northern Ireland came to this

Going down in history – An Irishman’s Diary on the contrasting fates of two notable ships, the ‘WM Barkley’ and the ‘Hougoumont’

Trade unionist ‘exposed atrocious conditions of workers and families’

Centenary: William Partridge (1874-1917) had key role in 1913 Lock Out and Irish Citizen Army

The Irish orator who taught Winston Churchill how to win a crowd

Irish connections: William Bourke Cockran represented the US all over the world but is barely remembered in his home county of Sligo

Fathers and son in the frame: two Coyles and the Yeats patriarch impress

John and Gary Coyle share hints of discord; John Butler Yeats demands close viewing

Ireland’s Eye mystery: A murder gripped Victorian Dublin

The small, picturesque island off Howth was once synonymous with a ‘foul’ murder case

Sir John Lavery’s 1935 ‘Freeman of Dublin’ certificate to be sold at auction

Artist’s hand-decorated certificate to go under the hammer for €2,000-€3,000

House with a Wilde history in Blackrock for €975,000

Three-bedroom Victorian terraced house with views of Dublin Bay and Blackrock Park

The other Wilde trial: the Mary Travers libel case

Three decades before Oscar Wilde’s downfall, Dublin was transfixed by another trial, involving his parents, Jane Wilde and William Wilde