Pope Francis situates the need for hope in the challenging world of ‘gloomy discouragement and ill-concealed cynicism’ ...

Books on the Famine, the Troubles, the Aran Islands and Gaza, and an account by the daughter of Dominique Pelicot of how she ...

Bill Clinton overruled objections to let Gerry Adams fundraise – and to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in White House ...

While Australian police in Canberra contacted department officials in Ireland to help track down his relatives back home, a ...

President Mary Robinson ’s visit to meet Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace in May 1993 was a historic first for an ...

Then- SDLP leader John Hume failed to look after the interests of his party in the 1990s when he was trying to persuade the ...

Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl’s notorious film Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) was already controversial when ...

Government ministers reasoned that Irish-manufactured arms might threaten Irish neutrality and also bring international ...

Future Israeli prime minister defended opposition to Palestinian statehood and downplayed settlements and occupations ...

The US ambassador to Ireland during the second World War David Gray was a frequent thorn in the flesh of the Irish government ...

Former House of Commons speaker George Thomas, who was proposed to chair Anglo-Irish talks in the 1990s, was “bitchy”, ...

Ireland was offered a “secret meeting” with the Iranian president to help in the release of Belfast man Brian Keenan who was ...