Fifty years ago today, 61 people were killed when an Aer Lingus plane crashed on a flight from Cork to London, and left many with questions on what caused the tragedy, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

As the Atlas Of The Irish Revolution hits bookshops, contributor Oliver O’Hanlon looks at the coverage of the conflict by overseas artists and journalists.

As the centenary of the 1916 Rising draws to a close, it is important to acknowledge that the apprehension that preceded the year’s flag-waving and cheers has proved unfounded.

Recently discovered letters show that Tom Barry, the IRA guerrilla leader in the War of Independence, candidly declined to appear at the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, due to him having fought for the British Army at the time.

A lack of German support, despite the arms shipment, led Roger Casement to try to warn Volunteer leaders to abandon the Rising, but his message arrived too late, writes Ryle Dwyer

The National Library has warned its collections are deteriorating due to storage conditions and some three quarters of these are stored in premises without adequate fire protection.

Looking around Bill O’Herlihy’s office raised an immediate question.

The HSE faces the headache of processing over a quarter of a million applications for free GP care for children under six by July.

A history of the world in the first half of the 20th century is contained in 17 lots from a Skibbereen autograph collector to be sold at Whyte’s in Dublin on September 20.

This weekend saw one of the first of many celebrations to mark the centenary of events that culminated in the Easter Rising of 1916.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan’s bid for a Dublin European seat failed after Independent MEP Nessa Childers made a surprise comeback and relieved Fine Gael minister Brian Hayes managed to cling onto the third and final seat.

In the first of two articles marking the 70th anniversary of the infamous American Note, Ryle Dwyer examines the bogus issues surrounding the controversy

Unknown heroes of the Irish Volunteers have been identified in graves in Glasnevin cemetery as part of a new commemoration.

THE decision by the Taoiseach to publicly support same-sex marriage will mean he is about to have a fight on his hands, firstly from conservative Fine Gael backbenchers but, more volubly, from the leaders of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

I wish to respond to Ryle Dwyer’s review of my new monograph, Fianna Fáil, partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971, which was recently published by your paper (Jul 13).

A history festival featuring singers and actors? Why not, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

IT IS difficult to imagine now the intensity of the controversy that was stirred by the Treaty oath, or the fact that history could have ignored for so long that it was Michael Collins who essentially proposed that oath.

In the first of two articles, Ryle Dwyer explains the truth behind the distorted machinations of David Gray, the wartime US minister to Ireland

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

The Soldier’s Farewell

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was the subject of much debate, even among the Irish delegation, writes Ryle Dwyer

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was the subject of much debate, even among the Irish delegation, writes Ryle Dwyer

AS THEY say in political backrooms: you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.

Ahead of his visit to Cork, Dan Buckley spoke to broadcaster and former politician Michael Portillo about Anglo-Irish relations, Britain’s Conservative Party, bailouts, and a love of trains

The daughter of the former president Erskine Childers has hit out at the Independent presidential candidate Sean Gallagher.

THE office of President of Ireland is invested with great moral authority. Unusually, our President is directly elected by the people, except where political parties agree a candidate.

VISITORS and politicians ambling through Leinster House next month may be surprised by the reappearance of Bertie Ahern.

I SERVED for 12 years in a voluntary capacity as secretary of the Mallow Hospital Retention Committee under the chairmanship of the late Joe Sherlock TD who was at that time a socially committed member of Mallow Urban District Council.

RITA CHILDERS, the wife of former president Erskine Childers, who herself came close to being Ireland’s first female president, has died peacefully at the age of 95.

The death has been announced of Rita Childer, the widow of former president Erskine Childers and mother of Labour Party MEP, Nessa Childers.

THE Church of Ireland community has provided this country with two excellent presidents to date.

A new portrait of Robert Erskine Childers was unveiled in Leinster House today.

LABOUR celebrated another major victory in the European and local elections after Nessa Childers won a seat for the party in the Ireland East constituency for the first time in 30 years.

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore fired back at outgoing Fine Gael MEP Avril Doyle yesterday after she questioned the credentials of one of his party’s European election candidates.

FORMER Taoiseach Jack Lynch was, as this newspaper editorialised upon his death, “a charismatic leader, political icon and statesman”.

The Government considered sinking the historic Asgard yacht at sea after buying it as an icon of the State’s foundation, official files reveal.

LABOUR stunned the Green party last night by poaching one of its more high-profile members to run for the European elections next year.

EVER since Erskine Childers sailed the first Asgard and a cargo of 9,000 rifles and 26,000 rounds of ammunition into Howth, on July 26, 1914, for the Irish Volunteers, the name has occupied a prominent place in the Irish consciousness.