black and tans

100 years ago on the 21st of January, members of the first Dáil gathered in Dublin's Mansion House to lay the foundations of Irish democracy. Not all members of the victorious Sinn Féin majority parliament were present for the historic…

November 1920 was a bleak and bloody time in Irish history. Kevin Barry was hanged in Mountjoy, Tom Barry led his West Cork flying column at the Kilmichael Ambush, the town of Tralee was sacked by auxiliaries and the playing field at Croke…

John Moynes knows FACTs about Ireland. Little-known facts that you probably don't know. Don't feel bad. There's no shame in knowing fewer FACTs than John Moynes who, as we have already established, knows lots of them. For instance, did you…