He was particularly disturbed when Taoiseach Jack Lynch dismissed two of his ministers over an alleged plot to import arms to ...

The Taoiseach Micheál Martin has been accused of sticking his head in the sand on the issue of Irish unity. Referring to the Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s recent claim that he is not planning for a ...

A former IRA volunteer has called for the recovery of the remains of his uncle, who was an RIC constable executed by ...

There, the IRA formed a field army comprised of the fighting elite of its First and Second southern divisions from counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford. For most of July it held ...

One such doomed relationship concerns the Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader Liam Lynch. Lynch was born on Nov 9, 1893, under the glare of the Galtee mountains in Barnagurraha on the Cork-Limerick ...

Nevertheless it was a significant victory for the IRA. Had the column been captured, it would have been a devastating reverse for the war in Cork at a time when the British were tightening the ...

Cllr O’Brien also remembered the many women of Cumman na mBan in Co Cork who were so essential to the fight for freedom, and she pointed out that at least four women served as IRA staff officers ...

who was an RIC constable executed by republicans during the War of Independence and secretly buried at a location in Cork. Éamon Grogan (88), who was an active IRA member in the 1950s ...