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From Booterstown to Burma: Laurence Carroll/U Dhammaloka (other five names not listed)

The Irish Buddhist who ended up on trial in Burma in 1911

History / 26 May

Anyone for some sourdough? A woman leaves a Dublin bakery in the 1940s with all the bread. Photo: J. Merriman/Keystone Features via Gerry Images

What Ireland ate and drank during the Second World War

History / 26 May

Irish playwright and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, Lady Gregory. Photo: George C. Beresford/Beresford/Getty Images

Why Lady Gregory is one of Ireland's greatest cultural figures

Brainstorm / 20 May

"In light of regressive fantasies, our current fascination with food thought to have been first invented in the pre-Neolithic period makes even more sense"

The historical roots of our lockdown obsession with baking bread

Some of what the Annals of Tigernach had to say about the events of 664 AD, "a true annus horribilis"

Reeling in the years: why 664 AD was a terrible year in Ireland

History / 13 May

A queue for the new supermarket in Shannon. Photo: Shannon Group archives

How to build a new town in Ireland

History / 13 May

Rita Childers in 1973 for RTÉ Guide. Photo: Roy Bedell © RTÉ Photographic Archive

The woman who could have been Ireland's first female president

History / 08 May

A hawthorn tree at Kylemore Lough in Connemara. Photo: Getty Images

Death, sex, superstition and fear: the hawthorn tree in Ireland

Folklore / 07 May

Sister Kate McCarthy: "it's fitting that she should be remembered because she was an inspiration throughout her life and she still is to women and to Cork and to Ireland"

An Irish nun, the French resistance, the Gestapo and Nazi prisons

History / 06 May

Two of the main figures in the 1970 Arms Crisis: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney

All you need to know about the 1970 Arms Crisis

History / 05 May

A stained glass window in the church of St Lawrence in Eyam illustrates the onset of the plague. Photo: Simon Norfolk https://simonnorfolk.com/

How a village's self-isolation stopped the Great Plague spreading

History / 29 Apr

Health department staff in Louisiana, where 70% of coronoavirus deaths have been among African Americans, at the New Orleans Convention Center. Photo: Claire Bangser / AFP via Getty Images

How Covid-19 has highlighted African-American health problems

Health / 27 Apr

"The difficulty of confronting uncomfortable pasts has become heightened in the north, particularly due to the tensions around the issue of Brexit and a United Ireland border poll"

The problems around commemorating the Troubles

commemoration / 28 Apr

"The late seventh century was a time of unprecedented scholarly activity in Ireland, and the archaeological record points to how the long term impact of this plague was limited."

When plagues and pandemics were common in ancient Ireland

History / 22 Apr

"Soldiers based in Dublin enjoyed the new Royal Barracks (later Collins Barracks) and access to Kilmainham hospital"

What did British soldiers think of 18th century Ireland?

History / 21 Apr

"In recent weeks, we have seen communities doing their best to acknowledge the passing of one of their own, with socially distanced crowds lining the roads to see the funeral procession."

The evolution of the Irish funeral ritual

Funerals / 15 Apr

The funerals for the victims of the North Strand bombings in Dublin in 1941. Photo: Independent News And Media/ Getty Images

What experts thought Ireland would look like after another crisis

History / 09 Apr

"For all the challenges they confronted, Anne Franke and the seven others managed to hide in the Annexe for over two years without completely succumbing to despair"

Lessons in isolation and confinement from the diary of Anne Frank

History / 09 Apr

Iona Abbey, the island monastery founded off the western coast of Scotland in 563 AD by St Colum Cille

How the Irish helped to create Easter Sunday

Easter / 09 Apr

From 1948, the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Photo: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images

Can we take the story of Jesus as Gospel?

Easter / 09 Apr

Irish people demonstrate in London in 1921 about the partition of Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Photo: AFP via Getty Images

Can partition and the Irish border be commemorated?

History / 07 Apr

Florence Nightingale: "her book Notes on Nursing was more of a public health instruction book than a nursing manual". Photo: Shutterstock/Everett Historical

Florence Nightingale's guide to hand-washing and health hygiene

Coronavirus / 02 Apr

A victim of the cholera epidemic in 1832. Image: Hulton Archive/ Getty Images

Covid-19: when panic, conspiracy theories and quack cures collide

Folklore / 07 Apr

The Clocktower in TU Dublin Grangegorman, which used to house the Dublin Cholera Hospital in the 1830s

How Dublin dealt with the 19th century cholera epidemic

History / 30 Mar

Members of the Defence Forces setting up a test centre at the LÉ Samuel Beckett on Sir John Rogerson's Quay in Dublin

Living through history: documenting 2020's coronavirus pandemic

History / 27 Mar

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