There aren’t too many images in modern history as sad, as forceful a reality check as the 1938 one of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain waving his peace-in-our-time note on an English airfield after talks with Hitler in Munich.

Cheap flights, food and hotels are just some of the advantages of visiting Romania. However, there is so much more to this great destination, says Isabel Conway

Kya deLongchamps explains what Bauhaus is, and why it matters today.

In Eric Bogle’s great anti-war song ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ his narrator “lived the free life of the rover From the Murray’s green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over” before he was called, like hundreds of Irishmen, to fight at Gallipoli.

Esther McCarthy selects her highlights of the year...

One of the more revealing and bizarre images from our struggle to come to terms with our past, to finally be at ease with all its dark challenges, is the picture of a group of protestors at Croke Park when England played there 11 years ago.

Societies’ and individuals’ memories are shaped by a combination of emotions and experiences. Character and perception are influential too. Love, especially deep love between individuals, may be the most powerful, the most enduring of those factors.

"Whilst looking at letters, diaries and books written by cancer patients around the world — which are highly emotional things to read — what comes across from reading them is that these people are in a constant state of hardship and survival, facing huge challenges"

The Department of Education’s decision not have history as a mandatory subject in the Junior Cert still raises concerns that many students may not then study it in the Leaving Cert, and so as citizens may have big gaps in knowledge of our country’s past and its impact on today.

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Peter Dowdall on an Irish designer’s project to honour the memory of lives lost during the Great War.

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

Today marks the last time we can remember the 1918 World War I armistice within a century of its realisation. 

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has worn an Irish-themed red poppy badge to commemorate Irish war dead.

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

Some descendants of those who served with the US Navy based in Cork during the First World War gathered in Cobh yesterday, along with a number of American military personnel, to commemorate the centenary of their arrival there on May 4, 1917.

Evidence suggests Assad was behind this week’s chemical weapons attack. Leaders are saying it is a redline issue but Western powers are at a loss to respond, says Peter Apps

JUST as the guns along the Western Front fell silent 98 years ago yesterday, their work set aside for just a short while, the Canadian poet, musician, and artist Leonard Cohen also fell silent on Armistice Day, almost a century later.

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Francis Brennan’s Grand Indian Tour begins tomorrow on RTÉ One.

Gerri Moran was looking at a photo she had taken of her two children when she noticed the spooky figure in the background.

A mother has captured a clear picture of a ghost soldier in a family snap she took on the outskirts of Derry this week, writes Leona O’Neill.

I was intrigued by Ruth Dudley Edwards statement during the the Prime Time debate on RTÉ 1 on Wednesday, 23rd March, when she said that she was proud of the 240,000 Irishmen who had fought in WWI saying that they saved us from terrible consequences that would have ensued if Germany had won the Great War.

Northern Ireland Attorney General, John Larkin, recently had a pop at the Easter Rising — the usual stuff about it failing the ‘just war’ theory test and having no democratic mandate.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

With more than 30 superhero movies in production, Declan Burke looks at the rise of the genre. Where once the cowboy saved us in the Western, now we turn to Batman or The Avengers to take on the bad guys. They are figures of hope - and a welcome distraction.

A Baltimore lifeboat rescue of 23 people from a steamship called Alondra, wrecked off the Kedges in West Cork in late 1916, is to feature in a special RNLI touring exhibition commemorating the centenary of World War One.

The exploits of a Clare doctor honoured for acts of bravery during the First World War are being featured as part of an exhibition in Limerick Museum.

In 1914, Cunard was unusual in having two large steamers constructed with a loan from the British taxpayer, and in being paid an annual subsidy, against their potential use as auxiliary cruisers, writes Dr Steve Cobb

Kya deLongchamps nags us to take a closer look at the place of horses in art yesterday and today.

Declan Burke takes a look at some recent additions to the increasingly popular casebook of Scandinavian crime novels.

Archaeologists at a military camp in North Cork have discovered one of the largest and best preserved First World War underground bunker and trench systems ever built in Britain and Ireland.

MUSIC and war would seem to be polar opposite in the spectrum of human activity, yet it is music associated with war that is among the most treasured works in the canon of classical music. 

Almost 30,000 Irish men and women who died in the First World War will be remembered today on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict.

James McClean has explained why he did not wear a poppy-embroidered shirt like the rest of his Wigan team-mates at Bolton last night.

I wish to thank the Irish Examiner and Jim Roche for their excellent history pullout which appeared in the Irish Examiner on August 23rd last.

MUSIC NEWS: The inestimable Kate Bush has struck a blow for those of us Luddites who seethe with rage at the glowing blanket of smartphones held aloft at gigs.