All these individuals are great for worshipping women in statue form and love the baby Jesus. Not so keen on real live mothers and children!.

Watch all the Magdelen Home and Tuam Baby apologists come out of the woodwork as excavation at the site of the former St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam is finally happening. But the evidence of those infants will not be enough for the fanatics in denial. Their conspiracy

A modest plaque on Arran Quay commemorates an irreparable bullet hole in a murdered Garda's uniform and the irreplaceable space of a father snatched from his young family at 43 years old. On the morning of the 3rd of April 1970, three armed members of the Irish Republican

RT @bbboatclub: New podcast. A minute by minute dissection of the emotions I felt after being wrongly accused of leaving a shit in a public….

Today in 1789 was the "Storming of the Bastille" in Paris. Bizarrely, among those infamous escapees from that notorious prison was a Dubliner named James F. X. Whyte. The supposedly impregnable fortress was ‘liberated’ by rioting peasants, revolting against the despised Louis XVI

RT @EamonDelaney10: On again, Sunday, 27 July: fun and history on the streets! @littlemuseumdub @NLIreland @MoLI_M….

In the early hours of the 12th of July 1998, as much of Northern Ireland braced for another volatile Twelfth Night, a firebomb tore through a quiet home in Carnany estate in Ballymoney. Inside, three brothers Richard (11), Mark (9), and Jason (8) Quinn were sleeping. Moments

The King of Hell, an alcoholic sorcerer from Twickenham, once lived in Dublin. Richard Parsons was born in 1702 into wealth and high nobility. He was elevated to the Earldom of Rosse in 1718 at 16, but he wanted more meaning and magic in his life. Moving to Dublin he served for a

The Hamilton Monument in Skerries has a sinister secret about the greed and exploitation of the British Empire. The obelisk was erected between 1863 and 1865 in honour of James Hans Hamilton, a wealthy landlord and Member of Parliament for Dublin. At first glance, the

RT @alanlambodublin: So to advertise the requirement for Galway people to appear in a film about the tragedy of Mother and Baby homes https….

Who were the Rapparees? Bandits and terrorists or patriotic freedom fighters? Like so much of our history, the truth blurs the line between rebellion and survival. The term Rapparee comes from ropaire, meaning "thruster" or "pike-man" as Gaeilge. It referred to those dispossessed

RT @MaryLouMcDonald: 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 Let the children play! It’s disgraceful that 33 children from Palestine due to come to Ireland for 2 weeks to pl….

Just for anyone who doesn't know, Senator Lynn Ruane wrote a letter to the court supporting this individual, suggesting mention of “restorative work” in favour of incarceration.

RT @davidmcw: Cheers @Waterstones . The reason storytelling is critical to economics is that everything has happened before, simply in a di….

A man with 53 previous convictions (including 24 road traffic offences and a prior dangerous driving conviction) broke a red light whilst speeding and killed 80-year-old grandmother Kathleen Furlong as she crossed the road. Philip Ormond (43) then fled the scene, went home, and

Did you know a senior Nazi parachuted in to Ireland on a secret mission? At dawn on the 5th of May 1940 in Ballivor, County Meath a German Luftwaffe officer fell from the sky and landed in a farmers field. Dr. Hermann Görtz wore a pistol at his hip, a knife tucked in his belt. He

At the corner of East Essex Street and Crane Lane stands the red-brick curiosity Dolphin House. It's now best known as Dublin’s family law court, but peel back the layers, and you’ll find fascinating history. Constructed in the 1890s, this gold leafed Victorian beauty began life

This morning in 1927, Kevin O’Higgins, the 35 year old Minister for Justice and Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, stepped out from his home in Booterstown County Dublin, and began the short walk to Mass along Cross Avenue. Unarmed and alone, he had

RT @davidmcw: Latest podcast is about the fascinating Austro/Hungarian empire and Trieste in particular. But it threw up some strange obser….