Restoration of the century-old gun-running boat Asgard will allow people to reflect on the complexities of its history, a minister has said.

While commemorating the Home Rule Bill of Apr 1912, one would do well to consider if it was as dangerous a recipe as any for insular civil war had not the Great War intervened.

MARTIN McGUINNESS says he wants to use the presidency to launch a “decade of reconciliation” on the island.

IN his letter (October 20), Pierse Martin implies this was a country untouched by war until perfidious nationalism kindled violent sectarian conflict in 1916.

JUST over 99 years ago, on September 4, 1907, John Redmond declared in a speech at the Mansion House in Dublin:

I WISH to congratulate you on your anniversary review of the Battle of the Somme (Irish Examiner, June 27-29).

ROBIN BURY of the Reform Movement states (Irish Examiner November 8) that “1916 was not mandated.”