By Ian S. Wood On 5 February 1992 five Catholics, one of them a boy aged fifteen, were murdered in Sean Graham’s betting shop on Belfast’s Lower Ormeau Road. The […]
Read More »By David Prendergast The 10th of April 1923 brought a smattering of IRA leaders and foot-soldiers into the foothills of the Knockmealdowns. After the Executive was surprised and hunted by […]
Read More »The curious case of Richard Burke, executed for murder, and the unsolved mystery of the great fire at Queen’s College, Cork, in 1862. By Pat Poland The fire at Queen’s […]
Read More »By Angus Mitchell On 24 November 1922, Erskine Childers—the renowned author and anti-Treaty republican—was executed by a military firing squad of the Irish Free State in Beggar’s Bush barracks. During […]
Read More »By Séan Ó Duibhir On 6 May 1970, Irish citizens were shocked to learn that Taoiseach Jack Lynch had dismissed two of his most energetic and powerful cabinet colleagues, Minister […]
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