Place: Soloheadbeg

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farming

42-acre holding ‘an attractive farm’

The 24th of this month is the closing date for offers on a 42-acre residential holding near Tipperary town.

comment-analysis

Michael Collins and the great escape

The Big Fellow broke six men out of Strangeways prison 100 years ago. The priority was Sinn Féin’s Austin Stack, but the two men would fall out bitterly, says Ryle Dwyer.

columnists

Standing on the shoulders of giants as Tipperary so far away

It’s just after noon on the day of the All-Ireland hurling final. About one thousand Tipperary people are gathered on Talbot Street in Dublin.

comment-analysis

Dissident republican threat: They haven’t gone away, you know

news

Latest: Residents evacuated after suspected car bomb attack in Derry

farming

Our history loses nothing in the telling

Book review: Bitter Freedom - Ireland in a Revolutionary World, 1918-1923

Ryle Dwyer says Bitter Freedom is, a thoughtful and balanced history that exposes the need to be wary about what actually happened around 1916 before we engage in an unquestioning orgy of centenary celebrations. 

Sat, 22 Aug, 2015

Savage Eye returns

FOR a long time David McSavage looked as if he didn’t have what it takes to make it in the comedy world.

Sat, 08 Jan, 2011

Some War of Independence leaders were just a bloody nuisance later

TODAY the Whyte’s history and literature auction of memorabilia is being held in Dublin. Ian Whyte, the managing director of the auctioneering firm, mentioned that the material had been forgotten after the Civil War.

Sat, 14 Mar, 2009

Why should we forget these good Irishmen?

HAVING read Nick Folley’s letter headlined ‘Revisionist line on role of RIC challenged’ (Irish Examiner, January 4) I wish to make a few observations, with help from papers at the time.

Tue, 18 Jan, 2005

Revisionist line on role of RIC challenged

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer, in recalling the shooting of two RIC men at Soloheadbeg in 1919 (Irish Examiner, December 12), hints at revisionist line of thinking whereby the RIC are elevated almost to the status of martyrs while the IRA are villains.

Tue, 04 Jan, 2005

Name one thing Paisley, Haughey and de Valera have in common

IT has not been a good week for Irish politics with politicians seeking to embarrass each other rather than putting peace and the national interest first.

Sat, 11 Dec, 2004

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