The University of Texas has quickly removed statues of Robert E Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from the main area of its Austin campus, just hours after the school's president ordered they be taken down.

If you remove the vestige and emblems of the past, do you erase the memory of what they represented too? asks Clodagh Finn

AMERICA has embarked on a great festival of denial.

Donald Trump has lashed out at members of his own party as his controversial response to white supremacist violence threatens to engulf his presidency.

A Confederate flag is on sale on Amazon advertised as an "Ireland South Cross Flag".

British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticised Donald Trump for not singling out white supremacists for criticism.

A combative President Donald Trump has again insisted "there is blame on both sides" for the deadly weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In President Donald Trump, they have a surrogate. It is unclear how far they may go, writes Gerard Howlin

President Donald Trump has again waded into the row over the race-fuelled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, insisting there was "blame on both sides".

President Donald Trump is back in the New York skyscraper that bears his name as anger over his reaction to race-fuelled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend shows few signs of dying down.

Google says it is cancelling the registration of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer for violating its terms of service.

Donald Trump has come under fire for not explicitly denouncing white supremacists in the aftermath of violent clashes in Virginia, with the president being urged to take a public stand against groups that espouse racism and hate.

HAD William Faulkner been an Irish writer instead of a Nobel laureate born in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1897, he might not have left us his famous line: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

The enduring power of symbolism and the different ways in which society deals with it.

A massive manhunt involving more than 100 police and helicopters with thermal imaging was under way today for a gunman who killed eight people in Virginia.

NEARLY every family and society has a few skeletons in a closet and those who insist they do not are usually trying to hide an especially embarrassing one.

If Gods and Generals is anything to go by, both sides of the Civil War must have bored each other into submission.

Plans are being made to honour a Sligo man who became a high-ranking figure in the American civil war.

Driving rain and drums drowned out the words of two dozen Ku Klux Klansmen at a rally held days after a wooden cross was burned on the lawn of the first black mayor of a Tennessee town.