Birth of Free State and the control and gendering of Irish women

While men of violence were denounced, church and State deplored emancipation of women

French Connection – Frank McNally on why Percy French may be the real hero of Finnegans Wake

An Irishman’s Diary

Eyewitness news – An Irishman’s Diary on a French view of the War of Independence

The durable democrat

John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party still casts a long shadow over the politics of modern Ireland

The North and 1918

Political events set both Northern nationalists and unionists on a trajectory that was to last for many years to come