He saw that protectionism would not work in the postwar world and emphasised the importance of attracting outside investment.

Apart from today, that is. On January 1st, 1926, Irish broadcasting began, as Douglas Hyde – later to become first president of the Republic – opened the radio station 2RN, located over a small post ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and join fishing and golf trips.

A neglected woodland in northern Israel offers a window into Éamon de Valera’s legacy and a lost moment of Irish-Israeli goodwill Éamon de Valera Grove in Beit Keshet Forest near the Palestinian town ...

Britain strongly urged the Irish Government nearly fifty years ago not to release key 1936 records about King Edward VIII’s abdication, especially a key conversation between Éamon de Valera and a top ...

In the year of its centenary, the ‘Soldiers of Destiny’ can look back on its idealistic beginnings seeking a united Ireland to a milestone 1932 election win, and from its 2011 collapse to last year’s ...

Irish civil servants concluded Winston Churchill was “unscrupulous” as they discussed how the crisis over King Edward VIII’s proposed marriage to an American divorcee could be used to the Irish Free ...

Analysis: A woman was effectively banished from the country for the crime of kissing of a boy in public in Co Louth in 1937 In October 1937, a young man and a woman were seen kissing in public in ...

Winston Churchill was described as ‘a figure of great potentialities and of overweening ambition’ (PA) Irish civil servants concluded Winston Churchill was “unscrupulous” as they discussed how the ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is set to unveil the agenda for the next phase of his government in the immediate aftermath of May's crucial elections. The King's Speech has been pencilled in for May ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. The last time Donald Trump delivered a prime-time speech from the Oval Office, in June, he had some ...