Donal Fallon

The death of community activist John “Whacker” Humphrey a few weeks ago, reminded the country of the anti-drugs campaign in which he played such a central role.

Fifty years after the 1916 Rising, the Language Freedom Movement launched a campaign at the Mansion House to push the state to break some of its ties to the Irish language. Stink bombs were thrown, and scuffles broke out.

There is perhaps nobody as significant to the story of collecting Ireland’s oral folk tradition as Séamus Ennis, who was born a hundred years ago this May.

Marjorie Hasler didn’t live to see women vote in a general election for the first time. But she was at the heart of the activism that brought it about.

How could it be that the Irish capital, with its population advantage over the rest of the island, has failed to challenge at the top level of hurling in the same manner that it has come to dominate Gaelic football?

During his Ireland tour, the author and former slave found “receptive audiences keen to link their own political aspirations to his”.

O’Meara’s Irish House wasn’t your normal drinking establishment.

Patrick Byrne was a purveyor of incendiary ideas on eighteenth-century Grafton Street.