Remembering Robert Armstrong: Ronan McGreevy on a gardener whose life was disrupted by two world wars
The proud, stubborn and courageous Monaghan man chose a path which led to his premature death
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Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism - A manic press career
Patrick Cockburn remains detached but proud of father’s career as determined, ruthless revolutionary
Mother Courage and Her Children review: A darkly comic road trip through a Europe at war
Theatre: Sandra O Malley delivers a career-defining performance in Blue Raincoat’s meticulous production of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play
Germany’s memory battle over ‘Nie Wieder’: never again
Once the cornerstone of the country’s remembrance culture, the slogan’s meaning has become increasingly blurred
The Lost Music of the Holocaust: a problematic study
Francesco Lotoro’s research is unclear and ignores how music-making in the Nazi camps was sometimes a form of torture
Chongqing, one of the world’s biggest cities, offers window into Sino-America relations
Temporary capital during wartime engaged American military aviation advice and training for the Flying Tigers to fend off aerial bombing by the Japanese
How Northern Ireland’s Oskar Schindler helped Austrian Jews flee Nazi terror
Just before the second World War broke out, in 1938 the New Industries (Development) Act sought to lure employers to the North. It helped some escape the evil of the Nazis
‘More like a palace than a house’: Locals join dig at ruins of Guinness mansion in Dublin
Hundreds of volunteers have helped unearth artefacts at site in St Anne’s Park
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years: A timely warning
Sunil Amrith brilliantly portrays how our dominance over nature has been self-serving and destructive, a corrosive colonisation of Earth for which he doubts there is a mass global solution
Poland marks 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion
Prime minister Donald Tusk says lessons of the past, and present Russian aggression, underline importance of strong defence
Election time in Germany: Why is the far right so popular in the east?
The far-right Alternative for Germany party’s Björn Höcke wants a ‘180-degree shift’ in the country’s view of its past and condemns the postwar ‘guilt cult’
AfD appeal grows in some German cities as Björn Höcke calls for ‘180-degree shift’ in view of Nazi past
Erfurt in Thuringia is a microcosm of a post-factual right-wing political landscape in which emotion is key to unlocking popular support
Nazi secretary (99) sentenced after German court upholds conviction
Irmgard Furchner worked in Stutthof concentration camp office from June 1943 to April 1945 aged 18 and 19
Blame traded between China and Philippines over collisions of boats
Beijing claims maritime incidents caused by dangerous actions of Philippines coast guard vessels in contested waters of South China Sea
Hamburg memorial to Nazi-era sex workers criticised as ‘tasteless’ and ‘superficial’
Team behind memorial to Nazi-era prostitutes close to Reeperbahn excluded area’s sex workers from its planning and drew on incorrect information, it is claimed
Man who tried to kill Hitler remembered by Irish relatives
UCC’s Andy Bielenberg says family are ‘very proud’ of Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg for part in plot
Historians Margaret MacMillan and Roy Foster: ‘We have far too many echoes of the 1930s, with too many crises overlapping’
Historians Margaret MacMillan and Roy Foster see troubling parallels between the events of today and those of a century ago
Plan to remove Sinti-Roma memorial causes outrage
A new train tunnel running under the memorial has been described as ‘macabre’ given how many Sinti and Roma were deported by rail to their deaths
Eighty years on, Warsaw Uprising remains a proud act of Polish resistance
Calls for historical commemoration projects and more compensation for wartime survivors from Germany for suffering it inflicted
Germany’s trash TV queen accused of giving Nazi salute
Melanie Müller accused of gesture during concert in Leipzig
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
July 28th-August 2nd: From the new series of Interview with the Vampier to testimony from the last of Japan’s atomic bomb surivors
‘Six-million puzzles pieces’: The Jerusalem centre working to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust
Yad Vashem has just opened a new facility exhibiting a vast collection of Holocaust-era items, each one linked to an individual victim or survivor
Operation Biting: Richly detailed account of key WWII manoeuvre
Max Hastings offers a thrilling account of a daring raid to steal German radar technology in 1942
The Commandant’s Shadow review: The fascinating real-life story behind The Zone of Interest
There is no sense of catharsis in documentary featuring son of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
July 7th-12th: From new Instanbul-set crime crama The Turkish Detective to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new reality
D-Day: The Tide Turns – Absorbing account of meticulously orchestrated military gamble
Podcast review: The seaborne invasion, involving more than 130,000 troops, created a path to victory in Europe during the second World War
Why War? by Richard Overy and Inheritance by Harvey Whitehouse: Profound mapping of belief and violence
Enthralling analyses of history dig into how human traits of violence and co-operation interact and evolve to sustain cultures of warfare
Many Irish men and women fought in the second World War fought for reasons far removed from ideology
Perhaps not overly mindful of the horrors that would await them, many Irish people went in search of liberation, adventure or experiences unavailable at home
‘Hell on Earth’: Story of Irish veterans on the 80th anniversary of D-Day
From rugby stars to future priests and economic migrants to Troubles negotiators, these are their stories
Biden says West will support Ukraine in D-Day landings commemoration
Ceremonies likely to be the among the last honouring second World War veterans, many aged 100 or more, in their presence
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-First Century review: Deft analysis that takes in author’s family history
Tobias Buck digs into how Germany dragged its feet on denazification and prosecutions for decades after war
How an enigmatic, cross-dressing British spy became London’s emissary to Dublin in the second World War
Dudley Clarke was best known as British intelligence chief who devised the SAS but lesser known is his role advising De Valera’s government on how to fend off a feared German invasion
Science must salute the link between physics and the mystical
Despite the pursuit of hard fact, the nature of reality is illuminated by Eastern thought as much as it is by atomic theory
‘You cannot hide anywhere’: A historian in exile on the brutality of Russian society
Worldview: Russia’s deeply ingrained tradition of violence against its neighbours and its own citizens led inexorably to the invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Medvedev argues
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