Was Grace Gifford pregnant when she wed Joseph Plunkett in 1916?
New documentary suggests couple’s hasty marriage may have been to ward off scandal
Important Irish art works on show at Paris exhibition
Sales mark centenary of the 1922 World Congress of the Irish Race
In 12 days Ireland went from fledgling democracy to civil war
How the independent state in 1922 went from democratic general election to disaster
Letter showing how Arthur Griffith foresaw his death made public
New exhibition tells personal story of four key figures in the Irish revolution
Irish women who rocked the patriarchal system with their words
The first volume of Irish women’s speeches is a reminder of the female voices that inspired and drove change
Staging the Treaty: This marathon production will recreate debates a century later
Some 100 years ago TDs made the most important choice in the history of Irish State
Goldman Sachs Irish property funds paid no tax on €390m income
Accounts for its three Irish distressed property loan funds show loans valued at €507m
Treaty details signal the end of unity in Cumann na mBan
Majority of women in the organisation voted in February 1922 to reject the terms offered as did the six women TDs in Dáil
Women activists and US funds: The formation of the Irish White Cross
What began as a series of protests led to the raising of $5m in aid distributed in Ireland
Joyce death mask, historic medals and books at eclectic Mullens Halloween sale
Large selection of soccer memorabilia also going under the hammer
80 years ago: how Éamon de Valera had his old comrades executed
Patrick McGrath and Thomas Harte were the first IRA men executed since the Civil War
Louise Ryan: Battles on the ‘home front’
Women proved easy targets for the Black and Tans and were regularly terrorised in their homes by threatening, abusive and drunk soldiers
JJ Lee’s ‘total history’ of modern Ireland: Still required reading 30 years on
Historian’s classic account lacerated the country’s mediocrity and begrudgery
Healthcare in the War of Independence: St Ultan’s children’s hospital
Dublin’s infant mortality rate was abnormally high when two women opened a hospital for infants on Charlemont Street, with £100 and two cots
Was 1918 a false dawn for Irish women?
Women’s rights were marginalised in Free State, with implications to present day
Constance Markievicz, the divisive revolutionary heroine
Markievicz devoted herself to fighting for Irish freedom, women’s rights and the poor
Ivana Bacik: We need to hold true to the feminist ideals of the suffragists
Vote 100: Much has improved for women in Ireland in a century, but there is also much still to do
The aristocrat who became an Irish revolutionary
Renouncing a life of wealth and privilege, the spirited and compassionate Constance Markievicz devoted herself to fighting for the causes of Irish freedom, women’s rights, and the poor
Patrick’s Pearse’s last letter before execution to be displayed to public
Brother Allen’s vast collection of 13,000 historic objects to be made available
1916 Rising: Photographic reconstruction past and present
Future presidents and Proclamation signatories among Gaelic League Oireachtas 1913
Picture of Thomas Clarke as baby withdrawn from sale
Image shows one of the future leaders of the Easter Rising in the Cape of Good Hope
Michael Collins’s plea for support
History sale at Adam’s includes an original handwritten letter from Michael Collins and a rare photograph of him
Easter Rising rebels’ medals to be auctioned in Dublin
1916 Medals were awarded posthumously to Thomas Clarke and Joseph Plunkett
My 1916: ‘2016 is about shouting loudly - This Matters!’
Reader competition: The Rising is an increasingly important part of my Irish identity after three years in London
The James Connolly papers: ‘Wasn’t it a full life? Isn’t this a good end?
‘Well, Lillie, hasn’t it been a full life and isn’t this a good end?’ the signatory to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic told his wife just before he was executed, in 1916
The Thomas Clarke papers: An impish wit who fretted about money
Thomas J Clarke, whose name appeared first among those of the signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, was an unbending Fenian – and a mordant, impish wit
‘To Speak of Easter Week’ brings together testimony of 25 family members of rebels
Some 240 Easter Rising relatives interviewed for oral history project
‘I do not think it will offend you’: Letter from WB Yeats to Maud Gonne
Handwritten letter from the poet makes €16,000 at Adam’s sale of rare Irish books and historical memorabilia
‘Finest private library’ of rare publications
Collection of late Tony Sweeney to be auctioned at Adam’s
National Library expands online archive with 10,000 images
Prints, engravings of Daniel O’Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell available
Maud Gonne sought widow’s allowance
Revolutionary had separated from Major John MacBride a decade before the Rising
1916 signatories and three presidents identified in century-old photograph
Original image of Gaelic League gathering in Galway found in Dublin attic
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