The Government must push the Catholic Church and religious orders to open their records to abuse survivors and academics.

Both religious orders and the State are failing to make any serious attempt to centralise, digitise and open up access to records of institutions, writes Conall Ó Fátharta. 

The hell of Gallipoli has inspired the latest drama from Anu, writes Padraic Killeen.

NOBODY can accuse us Irish of lacking when it comes to expressing our "public outrage".

Family trees have just sprung a lot more branches thanks to the latest release of genealogical records from the National Archives.

IT’S a pity that neither President Barack Obama nor Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will be on southern Irish soil until next month.

A snapshot of Irish life at the start of the last century has gone online today.

THE launch of the Dublin 1911 census website by the National Archives of Ireland earlier this week was the first stage in a project that will ultimately result in the full digitisation and indexing of the 1901 and 1911 census records, accompanied by a wealth of historical writing and visual material to help place the records in their proper historical context.

A SENIOR health manager who was leading a probe into the unexpected death of a woman at a nursing home has stepped aside to avoid a potential conflict of interests.

DETAILS of the terms of reference and membership of an inquiry into the unexpected death of a 65-year-old woman at a North Cork nursing home have been published by the Health Service Executive (HSE).