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'An extraordinary story': TG4 docu-drama on Mám Trasna murder case to air this week
A ghostly Famine-era village and a Pirate Queen castle: Put Achill on your 'to-do' list
Hooded Man: 'They asked me to count to ten; I refused in case I couldn’t do it'
A Civil War mortar shell was found in a tree in Co Kildare
Study reveals earliest cave art belonged to Neanderthals, not humans
From the archives: A Christmas card from Countess Markievicz in Holloway Prison
13 of the most attractive people from Leaving Cert History books
'He was the One Direction of his day': These musicians want to resurrect the almost-forgotten Thomas Moore
Remembering the 35 girls who died in a Cavan orphanage fire in 1943
Ancient human remains found in Mayo date back over 5,000 years
Kerry Babies: An unsolved murder 34 years after Ireland put 'womanhood on trial'
Temple Bar could have been a bus station but for a 'duplicitous volte face' from the government
'1918 was a year of monumental importance that had plenty in common with 2018 Ireland'
Caoimhín De Barra
Harry Kane makes history as Spurs sweep aside Southampton
Scientists discover that a bone fragment from 343AD 'could belong to Santa'
PHOTOS: Arthur Fields captured Dublin life for five decades
Great tragedy of 500 lives lost in sunken mail boat RMS Leinster retold
'A massive step' - Shannon RFC to field first-ever U20 women's team in Ireland
This 1,000 page, 5kg atlas challenges the usual story of Ireland's revolutionary history
The artist who captured Ireland in the 1800s with thousands of watercolours
This Irish woman fought as a man in the USA's Civil War
Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien makes history at Ascot
Liverpool record biggest away victory by an English club in Champions League history
Former Ireland captain in first Barbarians women's side to make bow against Munster
Pics: The world's largest exhibition of Famine-related art is coming to Ireland
A century after the attack, fatal U-boat bombing commemorated in Dublin
More history to be made by Joy Neville as she'll take charge of men's international
'Found destitute and demented': Limerick police records give insight into Irish life in 1922
How a desolate patch of Ireland was used to teach people to farm during the famine
Neglect and abuse of Irish children in institutions led them to set cells on fire and swallow nails
Head shavings at gunpoint and sexual assaults - Violence against women during the Irish Revolution
Relics of Piracy and a History of Dublin: The Central Bank is opening its archives for the first time
'It would make you wonder has anything changed?': Over a century later, Ireland still can't shake its eviction past
Fancy yourself as a bit of an Indiana Jones? Now you can experience what he did on his day job
Why was this medieval Roscommon village abandoned centuries ago?
The icons of Confederacy at the heart of America's debate
The Holocaust survivor who became the world's oldest man has died aged 113
Audio diaries detail Tom Crean's grandaughter's arduous journey in his footsteps
The late-night flight that inspired a chef to make the first Irish coffee
Long-lost photo supposedly of Amelia Earhart couldn't be her, says expert