The Big Fellow broke six men out of Strangeways prison 100 years ago. The priority was Sinn Féin’s Austin Stack, but the two men would fall out bitterly, says Ryle Dwyer.

Austin Stack was blamed by many for the disaster that befell the German guns plan in Kerry, but he played a key role later in the first Dáil, writes Ryle Dwyer

The author of a new book on Peter DeLoughry, the former mayor of Kilkenny who engineered Éamon de Valera’s escape from Lincoln Jail in 1919, has had a pop at Environment Minister Phil Hogan for turning up at the book launch — after he was asked to stay away.

A SHAVING mug issued to Eamon de Valera when he was imprisoned in Lincoln jail has been donated to a museum in Limerick.