FROM THE ARCHIVES: Industrial schools were violent places, although the staff were rarely the victims

One hundred years ago this weekend, ‘Titanic’ sank after being struck by an iceberg

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Abbey Theatre’s performance of The Playboy of the Western World in New York attracted protests during…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Tenants of Lord Oranmore and Browne (Geoffrey Henry Browne) in Co Mayo met on New Year’s Eve a century ago…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The pro- and anti-Home Rule campaign was fought on religious as well as political platforms, and in England…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: At the beginning of December 1914, the British authorities in Ireland banned a number of publications including…

The role of English trade unions in the 1913 Lockout, culminating in the attempt to bring starving Irish children to England, …

FROM THE ARCHIVES: A month before the end of the first World War, the mid-morning mail boat from Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead, …

FROM THE ARCHIVES: A year after the start of the first World War there was a continuous recruiting drive to entice volunteers…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Thomas Ashe, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, died while being force-fed on hunger strike in September…

The success of nationalist politicians, especially the East Mayo MP John Dillon, in preventing the British government from introducing…

Having survived the efforts of English suffragettes to burn it down the previous evening, Dublin’s Theatre Royal was the venue…

British prime minister Herbert Asquith visited Dublin in July 1912 for public meetings with Irish nationalists to sell their …

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The prospects for the tourist season in Connemara in 1913 did not look good, thanks in part to well-meaning…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: IN THE weeks after the Easter Rising, much newsprint was devoted to trying to find out what had happened …

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The first Christmas of the first World War is remembered mainly for the outbreak of peace and a football …

BACK PAGES: In 1912 the Home Rule Bill was going through the House of Commons in London, teasing out the details of the proposal…

NOVEMBER 18TH, 1916: A storm with up to hurricane winds killed two children and caused a lot of damage throughout the southern…

BACK PAGES: The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, estimated to have killed more than 50 million worldwide, affected Ireland as everywhere…

BACK PAGES: Ernie O’Malley was one of the most successful IRA commanders during the War of Independence and a dedicated opponent…

The 1913 Lockout raised all sorts of subsidiary political and social tensions in Dublin in addition to the no-holds-barred confrontation…

September 1st 1914. THE START of the first World War in August 1914 exposed deep divisions among nationalists, not least among…

July 8th, 1918: A PROCLAMATION by the lord lieutenant, Viscount French, in July 1918 declared several organisations to be “dangerous…

BACK PAGES: THE DEATH of Fenian leader Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in New York in 1915 struck The Irish Times of the day, preoccupied…

BACK PAGES: THE SIGNING of the Ulster Covenant in 1912, committing almost half a million unionists to resist Home Rule raised…

BACK PAGES: MAY 12th, 1917: THE SOUTH Longford by-election in 1917, when Sinn Féin narrowly defeated the Irish Party – by some…

READERS OF The Irish Times on Easter Monday in 1916, April 24th that year, would have had no inkling of the historical change…

BACK PAGES: To mark our 150th anniversary we take a daily tour through our archive. Today's date: APRIL 6, 1912