An Irish school teacher, a Scottish trade unionist, an aristocratic woman and a British officer were among the main players in the 1916 Rising

Our series on what was happening on the streets of Dublin during Easter Week 1916 explores the inner southern suburbs, scenes of a heavy battle and brutal killing

TCD historian Eunan O’Halpin believes no British general would have acted differently

Sinn Féin president accuses IPP leader of sending thousands of Irish men to their deaths

Jack O’Connor says Berlin making same economic mistakes made in the 1930s

An Irishman’s Diary about an old play and a new book

Does our flag mean the same to a GAA fan at Croke Park as it does to the unionists who have set it alight? And how did it become our national standard in the first place?

An Irishman’s Diary: On the lesser-known journalists who died with Francis Sheehy-Skeffington

Sheehy Skeffington remembered