Item category 1: Irish Collection

The annual from Ireland's leading online satirical site, featuring the funniest stories of the year.

Ireland during the period 1913-1923 was a nation in constant flux. Spanning a pivotal era marked by the Dublin Lockout, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the birth of the Irish Free State, 'Revolutionary Times' captures the full complexity of this transformative decade through contem...

Long before he became President of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams was a civil rights activist who took part in sit-ins, marches and protests in Northern Ireland. Along with hundreds of other men, Adams was interned on the Maidstone prison ship and in Long Kesh prison - without charge or trial - during t...

Between 2016 and his retirement in 2022, Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll was the public face of Garda operations targeting organised crime. This put him at the centre of a long-running quest to bring down the Kinahan drug cartel, culminating in US sanctions being imposed - an unprece...

Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. The material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, ge...