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A piece of the Berlin Wall outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Photo: Orjan F. Ellingvag/Dagens Naringsliv/Corbis via Getty Images

Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall / 04 Dec

How Ireland's foreign policy told the story of the country

Ireland / 28 Nov

Ballycairn Presbyterian Church in Lisburn. Photo: Bobby McKay Drumbo https://www.flickr.com/photos/b0b0b/

How Northern Ireland's Presbyterians remember the Troubles

History / 27 Nov

William Molyneux: his contribution to Irish intellectual history deserves to be fully explored and better known

Who was William Molyneux?

History / 25 Nov

A refugee family leaving Memel in Lithuania in June 1939 after the German ultimatum. Photo: Getty Images

How Ireland responded to refugees fleeing Hitler and the Nazis

History / 18 Nov

Historical re-enactment of a surgeon operating on an archer who was wounded during an attack by the Mamluks on the monastery of the Order of the Hospitallers (1250-1291) in Acre in Israel. Photo: DeAgostini/ Getty Images

What was it like to go to the doctor in medieval Ireland?

Medicine / 14 Nov

A medieval Irish chief and attendants pose for a selfie. From The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne by John Derricke (1581).

Gaels, Normans and Anglo-Saxons: the world of medieval names

History / 07 Nov

"Burial close to a saint would increase the chances of getting into heaven, as if the saint's resurrection on Judgment Day would act like a vortex pulling other souls out of the ground with him/her"

The cult of the dead in medieval Ireland

History / 31 Oct

"Cleary was burned to death by her husband and family members, who claimed that they had done so to force fairies to return Cleary, whom the family believed had stolen and replaced with a changeling."

"Darkest Ireland" and the burning of Bridget Cleary

Folklore / 29 Oct

"Caistél ("castle"), cath ("battle"), ceol ("music"), bó ("cow") and the almost-inevitable fliuch ("wet") also appear"

A history of Ireland in 100 words

History / 11 Nov

Sunrise over the Peace Bridge in Derry. Photo: Breandan Murray

How memories of a past can be a powerful resource for the future

Policy / 17 Oct

A page from a previously undiscovered 15th-century Irish vellum manuscript showing a connection between Gaelic Ireland and the Islamic world. Photo: Irish Script On Screen/Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

A closer look at the Irish medieval book

History / 17 Oct

"Stormy Daniels refused to allow accusations of sexual immorality to be used as a means to shame her into silence"

The historical links between Stormy Daniels and Jonathan Swift

History / 10 Oct

Primary school teachers make their point with placards at the INTO congress in Galway in April 2019

How the Easter Rising split Ireland's largest teachers' union

History / 10 Oct

Bishop Francis Moylan planned and oversaw the building of Cork Cathedral. Photo: Cork Cathedral https://www.corkcathedral.ie/

Francis Moylan, Ireland's 18th century kingmaker and power broker

History / 09 Oct

"The Minister for Finance has the weight of the past, and not just expectations of the future, on his shoulders"

A history of Irish budgets

Brainstorm / 07 Oct

"History can foster citizenship in ways that other subjects cannot."

Why the study of history is so crucial for our society

History / 04 Oct

Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders

Who were the real Peaky Blinders?

Peaky Blinders / 05 Nov

The Harlem Kiddies in the St. Thomas club, Copenhagen 1941 Photo: Little Beat Records

How an Afro-Jewish band was embraced by Nazi-occupied Denmark

Brainstorm / 27 Sep

"The 'Michaelmas goose' is traditionally roasted and eaten on that day"

Geese, daisies and debts: Michaelmas customs in Ireland of old

History / 27 Sep

"In liquid modernity, we must be careful what we wish for"

Brexit, Orwell's 1984 and living in liquid modernity

Brexit / 28 Sep

Charles Stewart Parnell surveys Dublin's O'Connell Street: "no man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation"

The latest Parnell revival

History / 19 Sep

The nine surviving members of the 1892 Laune Rangers Kerry team, leading the parade during the opening ceremony of the Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney in May 1936. Photo: Fitzgerald Stadium Archive

How controversy reigned when Kerry and Dublin clashed in 1893

Purrrr

The science of stroking a cat

Papa Doc Duvalier: from country doctor to truly nasty piece of work

So you want to be a dictator...

History / 05 Sep

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