On hearing the shelling stop, the Long Fellow waved the white flag, writes Ryle Dwyer

The State’s 100th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Rising takes place at the graveside of the 14 executed insurrection leaders at Arbour Hill, Dublin, tomorrow.

Standing solemnly at the same site and same time as the first shot rang out on Easter Monday 1916, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan stooped to carefully place a wreath beside Dublin’s City Hall.

Leaving the Church behind him, Thomas MacDonagh found a new calling almost by accident, writes Shane Kenna

Cork actress Fiona Shaw fronts a documentary that aims to undo the airbrushing of women’s role from the Easter Rising, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

PJ Mara was the most famous political spin doctor in modern Irish history, having played a leading role in Fianna Fáil for more than 30 years.

The country’s commercial property market is set to emulate the exceptional levels of activity seen last year as investors scrambled to get deals done before the capital gains tax exemption expired.

On the 40th anniversary of Éamon de Valera’s death, his biographer Ryle Dwyer examines the changing perceptions of the long fellow including why he was called a spy.

Richard Fitzpatrick has been researching the life of a former Manchester United captain, Patrick O'Connell, who secretly had two wives - one in Dublin and the other in Spain

AFTER completing my doctoral dissertation on Irish neutrality, Tim Pat Coogan, the then editor of The Irish Press, wrote that his newspaper would be interested in publishing a series of articles based on the papers of David Gray, the American wartime minister to Ireland, but he added his own health warning.

PERMIT me to comment on a rather snide remark by Tim Pat Coogan on TG4 (May 23) when he likened Éamon de Valera’s occupation in Boland’s Mills in 1916 to “the man who shot Liberty Valance”.