On 19 April 2022, the announcement was made that €85,000 is to be provided under the Community Monuments Fund to carry out conservation...

Introduction The grand jury system is the oldest form of local government in Ireland, the origins of which are obscure, however. Thomas...

Introduction The general valuation of rateable property in Ireland is a vital resource for those researching their Irish ancestors. ...

‘If Andrew Carnegie were alive today, he would smile with pleasure on the earnestness of the efforts of philanthropists like Bill Gates,...

#Cork City and County Archives have released the gravestone inscriptions index from the Abbey Cemetery, Bantry, West Cork with the...

Two new online additions for those researching #Cork family history were announced recently. Cork City and County Archives have added...

#Onthisday 100 years ago Father James O’Callaghan was mortally wounded by Crown forces at the home of at the residence of Alderman Liam...

#Onthisday 100 years ago #Cork man William Bransfield was led from his home by four men and shot dead. The Carrigtwohill native was an...

On this day 100 years ago, brothers Patrick and Daniel Duffin were ‘slain at Belfast for Ireland – 23rd April, 1921.’

They fought together during the War of Independence, and six years after the truce, the former comrades of 1st Cork Brigade were once...

The roads of Ireland are dotted with memorials commemorating those killed during Ireland’s revolutionary period 1916 – 1923. On the...

In the early hours of Wednesday, 26 May 1920, ‘villagers, tenants and estate workers witnessed the sensational picture of’ Kilbrittain...

Terence MacSwiney, husband, father, politician and revolutionary began the last week of his life in Brixton Prison in October 1920....

Continued from The arrest and court-martial of Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney Picketing 'The Brutish Empire' When Terence MacSwiney...

Continued from The arrest and court-martial of Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney On 23 August 1920, Broadway actress Eileen Curran and...

Thursday 12 August 1920 dawned with the promise of sunny intervals and light winds, and for one Cork man, his last day of freedom.

I came across this old photo on the Irish Examiner website and had to look twice when I read the caption as it relates to the Irish Army.

With travel restrictions due to Covid-19, foreign holidays are unlikely this year. If viewing Michelangelo’s Pietà in 2020 was on your...

On this day 100 years ago, Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) District Inspector Percival Lea-Wilson’s past caught up with him, when the...

Blarney RIC Barracks was one of many to be attacked by Volunteers and subsequently abandoned by the RIC. More about the attack in June 1920