'Greet Britain' could have been the standard pronunciation if not for the influence of speakers from this side of the water
Why did Griffith not participate in the Rising?
Photograph: Bobbie Hanvey
The 1965 general election campaign was seen to lack bite: ‘Where are the torchlight processions, the excitement and the glamour?’
Party leader James Dillon tells reporters: ‘Never let it be said that the Leader of Fine Gael kept the press uninformed of his movements’
Men of words – Beckett, André Bernold and Max McGuinness
On the campaign trail with Tom McGarry
‘The jolliest little railway in the world’
Fionn Mac Cumhaill and Athleague
Priest who left his mark on California
During a visit to Belfast recently, I was struck by the contrasting neutrality of the hand.
Conspiracy theory
When Irish footmen were all the rage in English aristocratic circles
‘What was it all for?’
The worst storm in Irish recorded history
A painter, musician and antiquarian
A break from the norm
Dinner time
‘You’re looking for the gaol, aren’t you?’
A perfect book for binge-reading
A big hunk o’matrimony
Dubliner was shot down four times
Why naming a bridge can be trickier than building one
A lifetime’s commitment to freedom of speech
Why snow has a lot to recommend it
Long-lost modern conveniences
A country divided
The King and I
One of Ireland’s oldest charities and 1916
Don Juan del Águila and Lord Mountjoy
What a motto can reveal
Whether calm or stormy, it is magical
Signature songs
Thomas Sullivan and Thomas J Callan
Heel be grand
The outsider who made a major contribution to political life
A city facing down fear
World’s first dedicated commuter railway line
An Irishman's Diary: Hugh McGinnis was the last surviving soldier from the massacre in 1890
Iffy honorifics
Irishman’s Diary: Wild imagination set her apart from other geniuses of the era, including Charles Babbage
An impressive spectacle in full flight
War in the mountains
Bruising encounters
Driving the point home
Marie Antoinette and Irish finance
The shebeen-shebang shemozzle
A tale that spans 174 years
How the future has come to Caracas
Use ye not the word 'fulsome' when ye mean 'full', for that is unclean
A new way of measuring on-pitch incidents
Honouring two Waterford men who fought in the Rising
Accomplished man of letters
Brought to book
Pete Briquette plays along
Community chest
Of hope and hops
Widow of murdered mayor
Environmental Protection Agency analysis underlines how difficult it will be for Ireland to become a low-carbon economy
Migrant crisis
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