In the 1966 film “The King of Hearts,” set during the waning days of World War I, a curious scene unfolds in a quaint French ...

Inspired by the American and French revolutions, the United Irishmen wanted a secular republic that separated church from state. They professed the Enlightenment principles of equality, liberty and ...

Desmond Fitzgerald and the delegation that went to Geneva in 1923 to take up the Irish Free State’s League of Nations place “to resounding applause”. The public began to apply for the ...

During the year 1924 “the whole of the direct sea passenger traffic represented in official returns of movements from and to the Irish Free State was between the Free State and the North ...

The Irish Times noted: "The only change he made to the grandiose office granted to the boss of the Bank of England was to put an old map of Mayo ... of the Irish Free State.

which lasted about 700 years — from the Norman invasion in 1169 until the Irish Free State was established in 1922. During that time, the Irish people were discriminated religiously, exploited ...

The following nationalists gave evidence for the inclusion of Fermanagh in the Irish Free State: Messrs James Owens, Belnaleck; Robert McCauley, Monea; Michael Treacy, Boho; Thomas Bothwell ...

A. Connell, Jnr, will present ‘The transition from the ‘Decade of Centenaries’ to the first years of the new Irish Free State’ to the Ballsbridge, Donnybrook and Sandymount Historical ...

In the 1920s, the young Irish Free State made a radical choice. It took roughly 20 per cent of the national budget and spent it on the Ardnacrusha hydroelectric scheme in Co Clare. It was 100 ...