Dr Bernard Kelly Between 1940 and 1945 a total of 269 Axis and 45 Allied service personnel were interned in the Curragh military camp in County Kildare. Their presence caused the de Valera government a series of challenging problems, as it sought to balance its duties as a neutral country with its continual tendency to...

‘From the Bloody Oakwood to the Iron Mountain in the Footsteps of Giants’, is a walker’s guide, following the epic journey of Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, as he and his followers battled against a ruthless enemy, intolerable weather conditions, hunger and betrayal, as they traversed an Ireland ravaged and wasted by English armies in the...

  While many might associate the rough Atlantic waves off Ireland’s south and west coast as being most hazardous to seafarers over thelast few centuries, it is, in fact, our eastern coast that contains the sites of the majority of identified shipwrecks. Balbriggan has witnessed both tragic ship losses and heroic rescues off its coastline....