History

A secret history of coin-operated games manufacturing in Ireland

Analysis: Irish factories began producing coin-operated games for international export in the late 1...

Why Ireland's Hidden Treasures isn't just another TV history show

Series producer Derek Nagle introduces the series below. When filming our history series, Scéalta Gr...

The rise and fall of the Tailteann Games

Analysis: The Games were 'the greatest sporting carnival ever organised in Ireland', but the spectac...

Meet Kathleen Cox, the Irish ceramic artist who truly broke the mould

Profile: Unheralded during her lifetime, Cox left behind a striking collection of works which contin...

Book Of The Week: David McCullagh on the life of Gerald Boland

Gerald Boland has been, as Stephen Kelly notes at the start of this fine biography, a neglected figu...

Would you try these old Irish recipes?

This week on Drivetime, Cormac and Sarah spoke with Róisín Hynes, a woman on a mission to save old I...

The making of the Stardust Documentary

Three years in the making, Stardust gave us an in-depth understanding of the horrendous tragedy that...

Meet Anne O'Brien, the legendary soccer star from Inchicore

Analysis: a 'wizard on the ball', O'Brien became one of the first Irish women to play the game at an...

How Irish artist Hilary Heron became a pioneering modern sculptor

Analysis: Heron travelled to post-war Paris on a motorbike, taught herself to weld and broke down ba...

The story of the secret theatre buried under Dublin's Busáras

Analysis: The Eblana theatre ensured the capital city's main bus station was also a busy cultural an...

Myles Dungan on the struggle that shaped Irish history

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In...

The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement - the new book extracted

We present an extract from Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement, the new biogra...