Fit to print – Brian Maye on pioneering publisher James Duffy

An Irishman’s Diary

Shining a light on Ireland’s places of famine, death and rebellion

‘Sites here are generally reluctant to use the expression ‘dark tourism’ because it implies a certain exploitation of people’

The Virginian – An Irishman’s Diary on Robert E Lee

Links to slave trade evident across Ireland

‘The Irish tended to have a very strongly held belief in their own white racial superiority’

Rite&Reason: RIC issue a test of how we work Belfast Agreement

Atrocities must never be commemorated but one-perspective narratives are propaganda

Why the Famine Irish didn’t emigrate to South Africa

A ship carrying Irish convicts arrived in Cape Town in 1849. They never made it ashore

Are we right to honour John Mitchel?

Patsy McGarry: Irish patriot was staunch backer of slavery and the US Confederacy

Patrick Pearse on trial: focus on the rebel leader

Three-part TV3 series stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, best known for ‘Love/Hate’

Croke Park announce plans to celebrate the 1916 Rising

Major event to coincide with Allianz football finals at Croke Park on April 24th

Pádraig Pearse: Preparing for the ‘end times’

Long a Gaelic revivalist, Pearse was a latecomer to politics and gunfire, his unfortunate brother an even later one

Spike Island off Cork coast for €5m redevelopment

Local authority plans to transform the island into a major tourism and heritage centre

Sharp lessons for contemporary campaigners: Frederick Douglass in Ireland by Laurence Fenton

Review: Douglass, an escaped slave forced to flee the US in 1845, was so moved by the poverty he saw in Famine-era Ireland that he felt he must speak out against the causes of human suffering generally

What books define Ireland for you?

A new book lists 31 definitive texts. Are the authors right? And what should be the 32nd?