Urban transformation and sectarian division in 18th century Ireland

Germany’s rapid bounceback from the destruction of 1945’s ‘Zero Hour’

Historians’ role in excusing the brutalities of empire-building

Inter-communal violence in the early years of Northern Ireland

How the secret police bedded in communism in postwar Central Europe

Orwell and the Spanish anarchists: not judging murder too severely

A history of Ireland’s main Catholic seminary has a much wider focus than the merely institutional

Given the historical amnesia that prevails, Katrina Goldstone’s account of the activity of Irish left-wing writers in the Thirties is something of a revelation.

In popular imagination, the Arts and Crafts movement is indelibly linked to well-known figures like William Morris, John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones.