Taoiseach tells commemorative conference at Dublin Castle that there is a 'delicate balance between appropriate commemoration and the promotion of a fixed national narrative'

A public opinion poll has set us a challenge: If we want a united Ireland, how do we think we will get there, and what will do to achieve it? 

Cork City Council heard the docklands redevelopment presents an opportunity to recognise the contribution of Dunlops, Fords and shipping to the area

One hundred years on from the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty it is worth recalling that tactics often matter more than substance when negotiating with the British

Most of the 70 Irish people who set out to win the peace 100 years ago today — including key administrators such as Kathleen McKenna — have been forgotten. But now their descendants are setting out to tell their extraordinary stories

Nano Nagle Place was chosen for both its commemoration of the pioneering educational work of Nano Nagle herself, and its ongoing mission to provide support and care for people in need

Did the Treaty really represent, as Michael Collins claimed at the time, the freedom to achieve freedom?

Cork County Council's heritage officer, Conor Nelligan, believes that next year's commemoration “will attract national and international attention"

When Lindsey Earner-Byrne, the country’s first Professor of Irish Gender History, was helping Boy George uncover his Irish background, she discovered a cousin she didn’t know she had, she tells Clodagh Finn

The work of surgeon and later psychiatrist Patricia Horne, who died on October 29, is widely admired

Abba have released Voyage, their first studio album in nearly 40 years.

Will the discovery on the site of the former Nancy Spain’s pub on Barrack Street give us an insight into Cork’s murky past? Or is it something less sinister? Kieran McCarthy reports

Fianna Fáil has strayed so far from the progressive social and economic programme it was built on that it is little wonder a whole generation is failing to identify with the party

The silver-tipped stick went on sale last Tuesday at Bloomfield, fetching €60,000, a record for the auction house

If anyone deserves a central place in history, it is the sister of Charles Stewart Parnell who mobilised ordinary women to take real action against landlord rule

Rulers have always been cognisant of the importance of having religion on their side, writes TP O’Mahony.

What began life as a Cork schoolgirl's class history project has now become the latest podcast from RTÉ's award winning "Doc on One" series.

Heather Humphreys admitted that the Government has made mistakes in the past year, but they also have taken ownership of those mistakes

We all owe a debt to his courage and integrity, but the country is still recovering from the rightward lurch initiated by the PDs

Woolly thinking helps reveal tombs that had been hidden for generations

The Dublin thoroughfare might be the flashy showcase but the Cork street arguably has a greater claim to the name

A new book recounts the under-told stories of successive countesses of Ormond and their daughters. Theirs are stories that deserve to be known more widely

Deputy political editor, Elaine Loughlin, continues her weekly trawl through the archives and highlights some of the major political events which were making the headlines this week in years gone by.

Gaming influencers all over the world will showcase Ireland's role in the game on social media platforms, potentially exposing millions of gamers to the landscape. 

A challenging aural marked the French exam, while a broad range of history essay questions gave students plenty of scope, as Leaving Cert exams continued on Wednesday.

And Bertie Ahern gives great telly

Deputy political editor, Elaine Loughlin, continues her weekly trawl through the archives and highlights some of the major political events which were making the headlines this week in years gone by.

Although expected, the timing of the demolition has left many at a loss for the city's history and heritage

Why, in the popular imagination, is Arthur Griffith not held in higher esteem? 

Deputy political editor, Elaine Loughlin, continues her weekly trawl through the archives and highlights some of the major political events which were making the headlines this week in years gone by.

A free one-day webinar on June 19 will hear how the Vikings came to the city in two waves.

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Man behind one of the world's best-known bookmakers opened the chain with compensation he received after being shot in Co Cork

Annes Grove House to be restored and rejuvenated

Sad irony in knowing that Ernest Shackleton’s exploration of the southernmost tip of the world is widely remembered while his sisters' adventuring days, at the opposite pole, and in warn-torn Europe and Canada, passed almost completely under the radar

As Covid-19 restrictions are gradually lifted, we now have a choice between falling back into our old habits or reinventing our world

A fresh eye on the past could rebuild relationships and shape the future

Dr. Ethel Crowley is a sociologist and writer. She took to the streets of Cork during lockdown and discovered little pockets of happiness there

This St Patrick’s Day will be quite different to previous years and if you or someone you know is far from the Emerald Isle, here are some activities available on Airbnb that might ease the homesickness on the most Irish of days

The highly-privileged medic, a son of Ireland's president, stole babies from vulnerable mothers only to hand them over to his fee-paying patients, complete with false birth certificates

Commissioning a sculpture to honour someone’s life is a positive, admirable act of remembrance.

To mark the War of Independence, the Irish Examiner is publishing a four-part podcast series focussing on some of the events from those turbulent times.

Many people may be aware of claims that Napoleon’s famous white horse, Marengo, was bred in North Cork, but few would know that two of his doctors were Corkmen or that one of his generals at the Battle of Waterloo drowned off the Cork coast and is buried in Kinsale.

Campaigners in Limerick believe they may have finally found the burial site of the 1st Earl of Lucan