Person: Sinn Féiners

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Cork City Council Centenary: When Tomás MacCurtain was elected Lord Mayor of Cork

In this year of significant commemorations, Dr Aodh Quinlivan of UCC’s Centre for Local and Regional Governance recalls the Cork Corporation elections of January 15, 1920, and the first meeting of the Corporation on January 30, at which the doomed Sinn Féin man became the city’s first citizen

Sun, 26 Jan, 2020

‘Dear Bob...’ Eyewitness to history tells of her terror as she got caught up in the 1916 Rising

Yesterday, 100 years ago, a young woman named Nora Costigan got caught up in the Rising. Niall Murray introduces her remarkable account of that week

Mon, 25 Apr, 2016

Fine Gael and Labour are not singing from the same hymn sheet heading toward the General Election

There are two parties heading into a general election looking to cut each other off at the knees, if necessary, writes Alison O’Connor

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

Seven of Pathé’s Irish collection you need to see

While none of the films are new to the internet, many of them are already widely circulated. For instance, Great Cork Treaty (1922), a silent panorama of Michael Collins addressing thousands of people on Cork’s Grand Parade, when the throng is thrown into disarray by gunshots...

Mon, 21 Apr, 2014