BY DONAL FALLON WEXFORD ORAL HISTORIES GO ONLINE The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) continues to provide an important online home for Irish primary source materials, and great credit is due to Wexford Library and Archives for uploading four collections of oral history recordings, which are now freely available to researchers internationally. The collections include … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY MARCH 24/1968 Aer Lingus Flight 712, en route from Cork to Heathrow with a capacity load of 61 passengers and crew on board, crashed into the sea near the Tuskar Rock lighthouse, Co. Wexford. There were no survivors and only fourteen bodies were recovered. Thirty-three of the victims were Irish, the remainder … Read more
By Brian Crowley A new exhibition in Kilmainham Gaol Museum explores a remarkable collection of photographs taken by political prisoners during the War of Independence with cameras smuggled into the prison. The collection features over 120 photographs depicting various activities in the prison, such as boxing matches, Irish-language classes and religious services. Images of everyday … Read more
By Helen Litton On Saturday 29 November 2025, a new gravestone was officially unveiled in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, to the accompaniment of prayers, music and a display of nationalist banners. The grave being honoured belongs to the parents of Thomas J. Clarke, first signatory of the 1916 Proclamation and widely acknowledged as a prime mover … Read more
Irish people will have more than a passing interest in the forthcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, with whom no other country, bar its original colonial master, Britain, has had such a deep and long-standing relationship. It is estimated that nearly seven million Irish emigrated there from colonial times … Read more