The ashes of a War of Independence leader have been returned from the US and interred in the Republican Plot in Cork’s landmark St Finbarr’s Cemetery almost 40 years after his death.

A member of England's royal family has laid a wreath at a memorial to rebels who fought and died in the 1916 Easter Rising.

The “Black Diaries” of Roger Casement should be destroyed when they are eventually exposed as fakes, it was claimed today.

I WISH to congratulate RTÉ and the participating historians for its recent Hidden History series, in particular the Burning of Cork programme.