Ireland

Podcast Website large Antonia Fraser

Britain’s Catholic emancipation

Podcast Brian Glanville

The World Cup story

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

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History quiz – Quakers and Kingmakers

Irish national hero Hugh O'Neill, the 2nd Earl of Tyrone, makes a formal submission to the English following the suppression of his Irish rebellion, 1603. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Library Hugh O’Neill: Elizabeth I’s Irish nemesis

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7 unusual historical sites in Britain and Ireland

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The most popular historical figures you’ve (probably) never heard of

Borris, County Carlow, Ireland. (Photo by Timothy Seren/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The wild man of County Carlow

Inishbofin, Ireland

My favourite place: Inishbofin, Ireland

Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror

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Could your family photos and letters help researchers examine 1916 Easter Rising?

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Great Earl of Kildare ‘extended English rule over Ireland’

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000

Industrial might: Blenheim bombers in production in England, late 1939. The Allies’ combined industrial strength proved too much for the Axis. (Getty Images)

Second World War

The Library The world in flames