In March 2012 the Stormont Executive announced that it would bring forward a programme for the Decade of Commemorations. It said that it was appropriate and necessary for the Executive […]

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A newly digitalised collection of 50-odd interviews with Ulster veterans of the Irish Volunteers and pre-Truce IRA, carried out by Fr Louis O’Kane some 50 years later, provides the inspiration […]

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Clery’s department store is an iconic Dublin business, famed for having risen from the ashes of 1916, its clock the meeting point for generations of courting couples. This and its […]

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SEPTEMBER 01/1715 Louis XIV of France, known as the ‘Sun King’, died in Versailles, after reigning for just over 72 years—the longest reign in European history. 01/1975 The IRA killed […]

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Henry VIII was a fat, adulterous heretic! I can now say that without fear of prosecution because the centuries-old law protecting that king, along with almost 6,000 other laws, has […]

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