“I have no prouder boast than to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland.” - Francis Hughes...

“Hunger Strike is unlike any other form of struggle.” - Gerry Adams Hunger strikes are synonymous with Irish history. Some of our most...

“When it awarded him The George Cross, was Buckingham Palace aware that Captain Robert Nairac was named, in an official Ministry of...

"That bomb was definitely placed there with a view to killing all in that band". - James O’ Neill Despite the story of the Miami showband...

“She is regarded today as one of the most significant figures of 16th-century Irish history and an inspiration to those who choose to...

“My Lenny could not have hurt a fly.” - Joyce Murphy On the 25th of November 1975 Francis Crossan, a 34 year old father of two children....

"I am truly sorry for the loss of life and the injuries that were suffered that day, and for the suffering the families have had to...

“When I came to the front of the hospital, it was absolutely quiet. What greeted me when I got into the main corridor was sheer...

"Cargo Cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult." - Nick Laird Cargo cults have been in...

"I was born with the evil one standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since." -...

“Do I believe in ghosts?... I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.” - M R. James The Winchester mansion was...

“All paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music.” - Benjamin Disraeli In a previous article called "Caribbean...

“One house would be attacked and the next spared, there was no telling who would go next and when someone said goodbye to a friend, he...

“I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could.” - Simo Häyhä The Winter War or sometimes referred to as the First...

“Maolra Seoighe was wrongly convicted of murder and was hanged for a crime that he did not commit....” - Michael D. Higgins Maolra...

“Soon as dined, I and Moone away, and walked, through the City, the streets full of nothing but people and horses and carts loaden with...

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.” - Abraham Lincoln The Atlantic slave trade saw millions of Africans...

“Part of the canvas was poking out but the rest was covered in snow. I used an ice pick lying nearby to uncover the entrance.” - Mikhail...

“From about the middle of the 18th century it began to be realized that you could learn from a dead body; and that’s when some families...

“Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it is one of the most...