Ceremonial urns, Chinese vases, and paintings part of huge Hart family collection

Ireland was not included in Britain’s conscription bill of January, 1916, but by then 90,000 Irishmen had volunteered, as many more would before 1918.

She is a piebald border collie called Shelley, seven years old, and she wears a jingling harness mounted with bells and lights.

Wartski: The First 150 Years, really is something of a jewel. Author Geoffrey Munn is a familiar face on the BBC’s Antique Roadshow, where he tenderly unveils precious jewellery and object d’art brought to the wobbling tables every season.

It’s the little things about Ashford Castle that makes a stay there so enjoyable, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.    

FRETTING about successfully celebrating 2016 is unnecessary. I am certain the centenary of the Easter Rising will be an unforgettable event. 

Carved into the simple obelisk commemorating the fallen are the names of five sons of Margaret and John McDowell Smith.

As we celebrate Bloomsday it might be of interest that while researching a biography of Arthur Griffith recently I was intrigued to discover a 20-year long relationship between himself and James Joyce, running from 1901 to 1922. While this was in the main in intellectual form, there was a close personal aspect to it at the start, middle and end.

From 1700 to the end of the First World War, almost 2m Irish men died fighting for British kings and queens, according to a new RTÉ documentary.

Poems 1952-2012

FIRM favourite to win the Epsom Derby, 100 years ago today, was Craganour, bred by Lord Dunraven at Adare, Co Limerick, and owned by Bower Ismay, brother of the shipping magnate, J Bruce Ismay, who was rescued from the Titanic.

Using the most sophisticated technology of the time, the Eucharistic Congress of 1932 captivated the country, writes Dan Buckley

Our interest in this year’s event is at odds with the pomp and piety of 1932, says Gerard Howlin

YESTERDAY marked the centenary of the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons at Westminster. We are beginning a decade of commemoration lasting until the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 2022.

Ninety years ago today, Michael Collins supposedly accepted the surrender of Dublin Castle, but Ryle Dwyer notes that this was really a sly piece of press manipulation

A 100-YEAR gap will be bridged today when Britain’s Queen Elizabeth touches down at Baldonnel at the start of an official four-day state visit.

Motorists and commuters were bracing themselves for traffic chaos as Ireland's largest ever security operation swung in to action for the Queen's visit.

When King George V (Michael Gambon) dies in 1936, eldest son Edward (Guy Pearce) ascends to the throne, but his reign is shrouded in scandal as he continues to romance American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Eve Best).

FROM Ajai Chopra and Olli Rehn to Barack Obama and now the Queen — our visitors’ book is showing gradual signs of improvement.

The event reflects 21st century relations between Britain and Ireland, says Jennifer Hough

NEXT Monday is November 1 and it will be a noisy day in the countryside.

Real-life father and son James and Laurence Fox are to play royal relatives after being cast in Madonna’s new film about Wallis Simpson, it was announced today.

THERE has been talk about cutting the size of the Dáil and abolishing the Seanad, but nobody seems to have suggested abolishing the Presidency, which is the single most expensive office. How much could be save by abolishing it?

Irish Examiner journalist Dan Buckley reveals how few Irish families — and his was no exception — were left untouched by the reach of the Great War.

CONFUSION arose in 1977 as to who would attend celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s silver jubilee, as well as if a tall ship could participate in a race marking the occasion.

Henry Cecil expects to take a team of five to Royal Ascot next week, with Sound Of Nature in line for the Wolferton Handicap rather than the Royal Hunt Cup.

FRANK GALLAGHER, author of the book The Indivisible Island (1957), quotes a significant comment made by Lord Craigavon, Northern Ireland’s first prime minister, who was on his way to visit Neville Chamberlain, then the British prime minister.

The Duke in Dublin and the DUP in Killarney in the same week! And they all got home safely.

The Duke in Dublin and the DUP in Killarney — in the same week! And they all got home safely.

The UK's Duke of Edinburgh is to make a brief royal visit to Ireland today for a number of engagements.

PAVING the way, perhaps, for a royal Irish visit by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, her husband, Prince Philip, arrives in Dublin today.

PAVING the way, perhaps, for a royal Irish visit by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, her husband, Prince Philip, arrives in Dublin today.

AFTER a half-century reporting the news, one of Ireland’s most respected journalists is finally making headlines himself.

Birkhall, the grand hunting lodge in the grounds of Balmoral where Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles will honeymoon, is much more than a holiday home.

An American group has made a Monopoly-style swoop on Mayfair to buy one of London's most prestigious hotels in a £115m (€166m) deal.

Royal advisers were today meeting to finalise the details of the funeral for Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.