The 123 boxes included items such as film and TV scripts, storyboard and behind-the-scene photos.

The Band Aid archive will be transported from London, where it had been in storage, to Dublin to be catalogued, preserved, selectively digitalised and exhibited.

A new book chronicles the first 40 years of the charity that ensures no-one dies alone and poor anymore, says Helen O’Callaghan

A Catholic priest shot and killed Patrick Pearse and two other Irish republicans in west Cork during the Civil War, leading anti-Treaty IRA members later claimed, writes Niall Murray.

Millions of historic personal records will be available online - free of charge - from today.

Up to 120,000 visitors a year are expected to attend a free exhibition of the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney’s original manuscripts and unpublished poems in one of Dublin’s most historic buildings.

Fenit Harbour in Kerry was deemed the best place to land guns from the German ships, and it was decided that the rail network would be the best means of distribution of the weapons in the South-west, says Niall Murray

A new exhibition in Dublin highlights the key events and locations of 1916 as caught on camera.

Google is bringing 1916 to life by offering a virtual tour of the key sites, streets and events of the Rising.

Two early works, unseen since the 1940’s, were acquired directly from the artist, Des O’Sullivan reports.

The consent given by parish priests in the 1950s to allow the National Library of Ireland (NLI) to microfilm their records of births, marriages and deaths was courageous.

The National Library website ‘about’ section on the availability of the Catholic parish records states:

The baptismal records of Irish historical figures, including 1916 leader Padraig Pearse and writer Peig Sayers, are contained in Catholic Church parish records released online yesterday by the National Library of Ireland.

A banner fell off a flagpole at the National Library in Dublin and struck a passing saleswoman, the Circuit Civil Court has heard.

UCC art historian Ann Murray looks at how authorities came to give more thought to managing public opinion

An exhibition which opened a month ago at Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool reveals that there were more passengers on board the Lusitania when it was sunk than official figures show.

We’ve never been closer to the past. The continuing proliferation of online searchable material is making available to us all an ocean of information and artefacts from our past. 

Even the saved appeared lost as, like zombies, they meandered around the streets and narrow lanes of Queenstown, as it was known then, many dressed in borrowed clothes.

Family history searches should become much easier when records going back nearly 300 years from almost 1,100 parishes go online for people of Irish descent to see for free.

An Post has issued a stamp honouring the life of revolutionary writer and Young Ireland leader Thomas Davis to mark the bicentenary of his birth. 

The National Library of Ireland has said it is struggling to pay for new books and cannot open up some collections because of a lack of storage space.

Portraits of some of Ireland’s most revered historical figures are among tens of thousands of artefacts opened to the world in a newly expanded digital collection.

The last remaining archive of work by Christy Brown has been bought in London by the National Library of Ireland and the Little Museum of Dublin for €45,000.

The last remaining archive of material relating to the work of Christy Brown will stay in Ireland.

For a year now I’ve been passing, on my daily bus journey into Cork City, the location of two very unique milestones near Wilton Roundabout.

Kya deLongchamps says vintage gifts, such as Roman coins, will go down a treat this year.

A member of staff at the National Library has been arrested over the suspected theft of a large number of books and valuable artifacts.

A man has been arrested over the theft of historical items from the National Library of Ireland.

Nobel poet laureate Seamus Heaney has been remembered as one of Ireland’s finest literary minds following his death after a short illness. The farmer’s son died in hospital in Dublin aged 74.

A master poet and family man, a Nobel laureate and friend, a guest of royalty and farmer’s son, Seamus Heaney had a life which was a smooth blend of the ordinary and extraordinary.

Nobel poet laureate Seamus Heaney has been remembered as one of Ireland’s finest literary minds following his death after a short illness.

The world-famous poet, Seamus Heaney who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, passed away today at 74 years of age.

A set of buttons found in Michael Collins’s pocket the day he died at Béal na Bláth have sold at auction for more than €5,000.

An exhibition of Big House photos reveals some intimate moments in the lives of both the families and staff, says Tommy Barker

Even the President's daughters want to brag about their Irish roots.

Michelle Obama has arrived in Ireland for a 24-hour visit while the G8 summit takes place.

The chairman of the board of the National Museum has described as “cultural cannibalism” the decision by the Government to abolish the boards of the National Library and National Museum, two of the nation’s most cherished institutions.

Difficult choices and an eclectic mix of genres didn’t stop Kieran Bohane from enjoying the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

The year was 1916.

HE doesn’t look like An Fear Rua.