By James Sharkey It was 5 April 1974, my 29th birthday. I had just arrived in Moscow with instructions from the Department of Foreign Affairs to open Ireland’s first ever […]
Read More →By Lance Pettitt The part that Irishmen have played in British military conflicts down the years is an established theme in contemporary historical writing. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst (1895–1986) is […]
Read More →By Pat Poland In the early hours of the morning of 1 September 1939, the German pocket-battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly entered the mouth of the River Vistula near the city of […]
Read More →By Emma Quinn A March 1931 article in the Irish Examiner announced that a ‘solemn decree protesting against “so-called sexual education of youth” had been issued’ by the Vatican. The […]
Read More →By Arthur Matthews Kevin O’Higgins, the Free State minister for justice and vice-president of the Executive, died a violent death on 10 July 1927. On his way to Mass on […]
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