Ireland

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A murder mystery in 19th-century Dublin

Part four in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1150–1199

Turning points 1171: The English invasion of Ireland

Columba depicted on a wall hanging in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. This Irish patron saint's influence on the Christian church was, and still is, felt much further afield. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Medieval miracle worker: how St Columba transformed Christianity in Britain

A group of worshippers praying in a chapel in Ireland, during the Irish famine, c1848. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A Why do some people call the Irish famine ‘the Great Hunger’?

Unionist leader Edward Carson (centre) and colleagues visit Derry/Londonderry, September 1912 – the month when nearly half a million people signed a “Solemn League and Covenant” to resist home rule

Resolving the ‘Irish Question’: 5 key moments on the path to partition

Christine Kinealy answers listener questions on the devastating famine that struck Ireland in the mid-19th century. (Image by Getty Images)

The Irish famine: everything you wanted to know

A man goes into a village at night on the eve of Samhain

What is the history behind the Celtic festival of Samhain and what does it have to do with Halloween?

An illustration of Henry VII, surrounded by Tudor roses. In the background there are shadows of those who challenged for his throne.

Henry VII: the greatest pretender

Prince Charles with his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten at Windsor

Why was Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great-uncle, assassinated?

Norman Davies introduces a long-maligned and overlooked monarch, George II, and reveals that there are in fact many reasons to remember his reign. (Image from Getty Images)

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch

Kissing the Blarney Stone: a women hangs over the precipice with the aid of a friend as she attempts the feat at Blarney Castle in 1935

What is the Blarney Stone, where did it come from and why do people kiss it?

The battle of the Boyne

The battle of the Boyne: what happened at the July 1690 clash and why is it commemorated on ‘the Twelfth’?

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

British troops guard a wall during the Irish War of Independence, which bears a nationalist message

The Irish Republican Army: a brief guide

A 12th-century Celtic round tower at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly

“The power of the Irish over the Britons is great”: Fergal Keane on Britain’s Irish roots