We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by.

Some experts suggest overindulgence leads Catholics to early graves, and some have suggested the Famine led to genetic changes, writes Victoria White

The problem with Brexit is that it seems to restate the choice: are you Irish or are you British? says Victoria White

Archaeologist Enda Flaherty has been documenting abandoned schoolhouses, thus providing a snapshot of those forgotten places where many of our predecessors were taught, says Dan MacCarthy.

The deep divide between Catholics and Protestants makes the coming together to honour the dead on both sides fraught with problems.

A letter to the Taoiseach.

Schools could be legally forced to set up classes for pupils with special educational needs if parents are unable to get a local school to provide services.

Early governments acted as if Irish independence amounted to Rome Rule. It took the revelation of the clerical sex abuse scandal to end such deference, writes Ryle Dwyer

Ulster Protestantism associates Gaelic with republicanism, which we oppose, and our cultural insecurity has informed the DUP’s rejection of an Irish Language Act, says Richard Irvine

History, or at least one version of it, suggests that tomorrow week— October 31— we should remember that date as the 500th anniversary of the day Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany.

The Taoiseach has expressed frustration at the length of time the powersharing crisis has lasted in Northern Ireland, pointing out that many pregnancies are shorter.

How healthy is it to use our national school system to preserve the cohesion of a faith community, asks Victoria White.

Paddy Armstrong’s account of his wrongful imprisonment as part of the Guildford Four is harrowing. As a politically disengaged teenager of the ’70s, he was always an unlikely IRA man, as Anne Lucey discovers.

Bones found near the wreckage of a South Korean ferry belonged to animals, not missing passengers from the ship's 2014 sinking in which 304 people died, the government says.

Controlling population by brutal means has been the norm in the world since the dawn of time, writes Victoria White.

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s plans to tackle problems caused for parents by links between religion and school enrolments have received a very mixed reaction.

Why does the State spend an annual figure of €6.75m on the Protestant Block Grant which supports Protestants who need it with school fees? asks Victoria White

I never dreamed that I could be anything as fabulous as a performer. It was beyond my wildest dreams.

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“The true history of a passionate period,” wrote PS O’Hegarty in The Victory of Sinn Féin in 1924, “cannot be written by any contemporary. We are all too near it.”

Did you know that Bandon once had seven Orange lodges?

Pope Francis has told Mexicans to "shun the devil" in a speech aimed against those who traffic drugs.

Emotion without reason is dangerous. Reason unhinged from imagination is sterile, writes Gerard Howlin.

Protestant children are not in danger of any ‘contamination’ from a Catholic school, writes Victoria White

The leadership of the Protestant Churches of Ireland have to finally accept their historic responsibility as their counterparts in the Catholic Church did recently in Scotland. 

“After all, Christians were fighting Christians in the North, and no doubt both sides confidently believed that God was on their side.”

Church of Ireland Bishop Paul Colton was so moved by the experience of a survivor of the Westbank orphanage that he has called for all Protestant homes to be included in the Mother and Baby Home investigation.

Political instability in the North is hurting the most vulnerable, church leaders warned.

Thanks to Margaret Hickey for her well-argued defence of Bishop William Crean’s actions in respect of a misguided invitation to priest, Tony Flannery, to abandon his silence and promote his Protestant ideas on Catholic premises.

I am normally a fan of Victoria White’s excellent and perceptive column. But her article on Nellie Organ (Irish Examiner, 27 August) displays a profound lack of insight into the central mysteries of Christianity, whether of Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant variety.

Frederick the Great is judged by many historians to have been an enlightened despot. Geoffrey Roberts on an  impressive, comprehensive new biography by Tim Blanning.

Now that the same-sex marriage referendum is over and the ‘Yes’ side has won, we must not forget the 40% of people who voted No.

Your headline, ‘Religions unite against referendum’ (April 15), is contradicted by the coalition of faiths for ‘Yes’ to marriage equality as represented at a conference in Trinity College Dublin.