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Major Compton-Smith and wife Gladys Mary Lloyd, 1916

Documentary On One: I Am To Be Shot

20 year old Saoirse Sheehan introduces this weekend's Documentary On One which is based on her secondary school project.

Documentary On One • 30 Aug 21

A Leaf in the Wind by Matt Cullen - read an extract

Books • 20 Aug 21

Paying it forward: The Irish-Navajo gift exchange, one year on

History • 05 Aug 21

The Jeanie Johnston - Ireland's famine ship, in numbers

History • 04 Aug 21

Historian-in-Residence for Children Dervilia Roche

Exploring local history for kids - how to bring the past to life

Get Creative • 28 Jul 21

Extracted: Vicereines of Ireland: Portraits of Forgotten Women

Books • 09 Jul 21

How the gramophone came to influence Irish music

History • 10 May 21

Captain Francis Crozier, the subject of Icebound in the Arctic

Icebound in the Arctic - read an exclusive extract

Two newly discovered ships which sank in the Arctic ice 170 years ago may hold clues to the fate of legendary explorer, Captain Francis Crozier, who led the doomed Franklin expedition's fight for survival...

Books • 07 May 21

How The Clancy Brothers inspired Bob Dylan

Music • 28 Apr 21

The Maidstone Escape - an extract from Seán McConville's new book

Books • 14 Apr 21

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

David McCullagh reviews The Partition by Charles Townshend

Six One News co-anchor David McCullagh reviews Charles Townshend's new history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence, published for the centenary of the Partition.

Books • 11 Apr 21

GunPlot - RTÉ revisits the Irish arms crisis

Podcasts • 27 Apr 21

Exploring the untold stories in Irish queer histories

The new archive aims to explore the untold stories in Irish queer histories. Initially focusing on lesbian, feminist, female-identified, transgender and bisexual histories from the 80s and 90s as well as lesser-known HIV and AIDS histories.

LGBTI+ • 24 Jun 22

Saucy Mistress Boldface - programme maker Angela Mezzetti

Saucy Mistress Boldface - The Lyric Feature

Saucy Mistress Boldface is a peek through a Georgian window at life for women from 1746 to 1751 through a series of 221 letters from the Bishop Of Elphin to his only teenage daughter, Alicia...

The Lyric Feature • 05 Apr 21

A British machine gun located in the Iveagh Buildings on Bull Alley sprayed the building with bullets, shattering windows and damaging books.

Minorities and the Irish Revolution - inside the new exhibition

Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh's Library, writes about Changed Utterly?, a new online exhibition which traces the experience of minorities during the Irish Revolution.

History • 08 Apr 21

The rise of the St Patrick's Day Parade

Although St. Patrick's Day has long been celebrated in Ireland, the tradition of holding a parade on March 17th didn't begin here. It actually developed among those who left Ireland and settled in faraway places...

st patricks day • 18 Mar 21

Cúl Stories for St. Patrick's Day

History • 16 Mar 21

The Chieftains in China: An early step in Irish-Chinese relations

History • 12 Oct 21

Sunday Miscellany: The Power of Hatpins, by Mae Leonard

The ornamental accessory that could be a suffragette's lethal weapon

Sunday Miscellany • 10 Mar 21

Lord Sligo was appointed Governor General of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in April 1834

Lord Sligo - the true tale of the Irish 'champion of the slaves'

From Ireland, England, France, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Italy to America and the West Indies, overflowing with historic events, from the French Revolution to the Great Irish Famine, Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, lived life to the limits...

Books • 09 Mar 21

Sunday Miscellany: Portraits and Pancakes, by Carla King

Sunday Miscellany: Portraits and Pancakes, by Carla King - On the friendship between Michael Davitt, Land League founder, and artist Sarah Purser

Sunday Miscellany • 26 Feb 21

Machnamh 100: Ireland and the British Empire

In the second episode of the Machnamh 100 Series, President Michael D. Higgins hosts a public seminar recalling significant events that took place in Ireland a century ago.

Machnamh 100 • 25 Feb 21

Ireland's Own - the story of Ireland's longest-running magazine

As the country's longest-running magazine, Ireland's Own has weathered many recessions and withstood turbulent changes to the media landscape...

History • 13 Feb 21

Works by Jane Wilde feature in the The Benjamin Iveagh Library

Women Writers in the Benjamin Iveagh Collection

Books • 08 Feb 21

Banner with pictures of people who went missing during the Franco dictatorship unveiled during a 2019 Madrid protest coinciding with the 83rd anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War.

Reviewed: The International Brigades by Giles Tremlett

In his latest work, an illuminating, surely definitive history, Giles Tremlett turns his attention to the International Brigades who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

Books • 27 Oct 20