Ireland

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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

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and British prime minister from 1782–83, was instrumental in the Genevan exiles’ move to southern Ireland. (Getty Images)

The watchmakers of Waterford

The RMS Titanic. (Image by Perspectives/Getty Images)

Where history happened: The Titanic disaster

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Being a British Missionary and troubles in Ireland

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Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century

A portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie), the grandson of James II and VII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Library Where history happened: The Jacobites

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The Great Famine: Ireland’s Agony 1845–1852

The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2

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First World War

Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO

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My history hero: Hubert Butler (1900–1991)