The recovery of one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks will be one of the topics of discussion at a conference taking place at University College Cork (UCC) this week.

The so-called terrible beauty that WB Yeats said was born in 1916 was nothing of the sort. What materialised, in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, was a Catholic state and the transfer of dominion from an imperial power to an ecclesiastical one, an outcome that Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen of 1798 would have abhorred.

The American colonies had been at war with Great Britain, in the American Revolutionary War, for over a year before they issued their Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Fifty years ago, an IRA bomb belatedly decapitated one of the most iconic monuments to British rule in Ireland, writes Billy O’Riordan.

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.

Poor Ireland, whatever you think about past generations they at least had their leaders of stature.

Amnesty International seems to view abortion as a human right. Not so.

In an interview with Michael Moynihan, former Kerry and Limerick manager, Mickey Ned O’Sullivan ponders "what would Padraig Pearse and his colleagues make of an Ireland like today’s? "

This Tuesday was the birthday of Constance Markievicz. Her father was an Anglo-Irish landlord, who provided free food at Lissadell House during the famine.

Boxing: Hailing from an estate named after Wolfe Tone, fighting seems to have come naturally to the Walsh family.

A powerful new book on the life of Derek Mahon sent Thomas McCarthy back to Mahon’s four key works, The Yaddo Letter, The Hudson Letter, The Yellow Book and Harbour Lights.

Eoin English looks at the skilled conservation work now underway to restore the National Monument on Grand Parade ahead of the Easter Rising commemorations planned for Cork in 2016

The only political party, that I am aware of with genuine designs on a united Ireland are Sinn Féin and that is acceptable to me.

An eminent historian has called on the State to declare a Daniel O’Connell national memorial day to honour “the father of Irish democracy”.

Campaigners have demanded the reopening of a memorial park to Irish patriots which was closed just a year after tens of thousands of euro in public money was poured into upgrading it.

I am insulted by the Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s comments in Bodenstown this weekend, especially since they were said at the grave of the father of Irish republicanism, Wolfe Tone.

The Government has been accused of neglect and complacency over the peace process and of “dramatically” reducing its level of engagement with Northern affairs.

ONE of the many fun aspects to following the US presidential election is the varied loo-lah groups who have to be pandered to by the respective candidates.

THE ballroom in Leinster House is as appropriate a place as any to receive the grandmaster of the Orange Order Edward Stevenson at noon today.

THE engagement in Belfast this week involving the President of Ireland, the Queen of England and the North’s First and Deputy First Ministers Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness carries with it significant symbolic, political and emotional resonance for the people of Ireland.

The large Secret Service agent at the back of the Oval Office glared at me and I quickly scooped my notebook off Barack Obama’s desk.

THE state should avoid “waving the green flag” and “glamourising the gun” when commemorating the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, former senator Eoghan Harris has said.

AUGUST is traditionally seen as the “silly” month for serious news, as national politics take a downtime and the media fills the vacuum by chasing after anything, sometimes going into overdrive, like what is happening with the race to Áras.

THE president of Sinn Féin Gerry Adams last night said, “Ireland is at a crossroads”.

SENATOR Liam Twomey’s disapproval of Finance Minister Brian Lenihan’s upcoming address at the annual Michael Collins Beal na mBláth commemoration is backward and parochial.

Republican Sinn Féin is holding its annual Theobald Wolfe Tone commemoration in Kildare today.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has unanimously voted against the public service pay agreement and threatened potential strike action from September in response to the latest Cabinet cutbacks.

IN his letter (‘Neutrality issue is a red herring’, July 8), James A Gleeson opposes Ireland’s traditional stance.

Brian Cowen today insisted unpopular measures are needed in the Budget to cope with the greatest economic crisis to face the world in over a generation.

THOUGH yesterday’s dramatic events in west Cork could not have been unexpected, they were alarming and fortunate in equal measure.

Hundreds of Republican Sinn Féin supporters are expected to take part today in the annual commemoration at the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone in Co Kildare.

WHEN Bertie Ahern wants to spur the masses, he turns to the Iron Lady rather than the Republican men of steel.

MR JUSTICE Kevin O’Higgins concluded that Portmarnock golf club “is not a discriminating club under the terms of the Equal Status Act 2000, because it falls within an exception provided for in that act”.

A muscle injury prevented Wolfe Tone from fulfilling his potential in his Classic season, but he came back with a bang to win the Paddy Power Stakes at Newbury today.

AIDAN O’BRIEN was far from downhearted after Yeats lost his unbeaten record to Cairdeas in the High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Aidan O’Brien was far from downhearted after Yeats lost his unbeaten record to Cairdeas in the High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh today.

Veteran republican Joe Cahill will rank alongside some of the greatest names in Irish nationalism, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness claimed today.

VODAFONE Derby winner North Light is reported to be firmly on course for the Budweiser-sponsored Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Sunday week.

All the leading fancies stood their ground as a total of 25 horses were left at the second forfeit stage for the Vodafone Derby today.

A GROUP of all-party politicians is bidding to change the law to stop the State’s “crown jewels” falling into the hands of private owners.

The Bar Council faces pressures to modernise, writes Political Reporter Michael O’Farrell.

Although it will be some weeks before the skeletal remains found on a beach near Carlingford in Co Louth can be conclusively identified by DNA, it seems highly probable following the post-mortem that they are those of the late Jean McConville, who was murdered by the IRA in 1972.

SOME people say Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has no real ideology. He has been accused of abandoning the republicanism of Fianna Fáil. Surely it is time that this old doctrine was laid to rest. If anything, Bertie deserves credit for not entertaining bogus republican arguments.