Continued from The arrest and court-martial of Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney Picketing 'The Brutish Empire' When Terence MacSwiney...

Continued from The arrest and court-martial of Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney On 23 August 1920, Broadway actress Eileen Curran and...

Thursday 12 August 1920 dawned with the promise of sunny intervals and light winds, and for one Cork man, his last day of freedom.

I came across this old photo on the Irish Examiner website and had to look twice when I read the caption as it relates to the Irish Army.

With travel restrictions due to Covid-19, foreign holidays are unlikely this year. If viewing Michelangelo’s Pietà in 2020 was on your...

On this day 100 years ago, Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) District Inspector Percival Lea-Wilson’s past caught up with him, when the...

Blarney RIC Barracks was one of many to be attacked by Volunteers and subsequently abandoned by the RIC. More about the attack in June 1920

Dúchas is the Irish word for heritage and the digitized information contained on www.duchas.ie certainly explains why.

‘Coming on to dawn, I woke with the feeling that something dreadful had happened. The whole house was quiet, and the little bedroom that...

Parnell Place, Cork City was once a waterway called Nelson's Quay.

The Irish Census of 1901 and 1911 provides a treasure trove of information about our ancestors, the type of house they lived in and their ne

Michael Patrick Lynch died as a result of gunshot wounds on the 13 August 1934, he was twenty-two years of age.  The incident took place dur

Fascists?  The last breath of the Civil War?  Comrades in arm against Fianna Fáil and Éamon de Valera?  In reality, the Irish Blueshirt move

History and development of the Royal Irish Constabulary, including the history of Shandon RIC Barracks, Cork City.

Introduction Historic maps offer a window to a nation’s past and ultimately to our ancestors’ lives. For researchers interested in Irish...

At the end of April 2019, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE) began the search to find Ireland’s favourite folk song. The second ballad featured

1917 is the year when Eamon de Valera underwent a metamorphosis from republican to prisoner to politician and developed the embryonic charac

Philip Henry Eustace Cross was born on 15 April 1824 at Shandy Hall, Coachford, Co. Cork. He was educated by private tutor and in 1843 atte

Father Michael Griffin was a Roman Catholic curate who was abducted on 14 November 1920 in Galway. He was shot dead and six days later his

Danno O'Mahoney became one of the most famous Irish sportsmen in the world, when in June 1935 at Fenway Park, Boston, he dethroned Jim L