Ireland’s general election took place on 8 February 2020. Irish society has undergone intense social, economic, and demographic changes...

In early June in 2014, the European Union moved to close a loophole that allowed multinational companies to lower their tax bills by...

In just one generation, the attitude of people in Ireland towards homosexuality has drastically changed: from considering homosexuality...

Like much of the world, the 2008 financial crisis greatly affected Ireland and its economy. Employment levels were at their lowest, only...

From 1994 - 2007, Ireland underwent the Celtic Tiger period, coined by Kevin Gardiner, which referred to the period of rapid economic...

The Belfast Agreement, also known as the Good Friday Agreement due to its signing on Good Friday, 10th April 1988, is a multilateral...

Irish immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were once understood as one of the main victims of British colonial...

The Troubles, despite lasting only thirty years, were undeniably instrumental in provoking lasting change in Ireland; irrevocably...

To gain a deeper understanding of the 1949 Ireland Act and its significance, one must begin by examining the historical context. The...

The Irish Civil War lasted between 1922 and 1923, it was a conflict between Irish nationalists regarding the contentious Anglo-Irish...

In December 1918, republican party Sinn Fein decisively won the Irish vote in the General Election, taking 73 seats out of 105. They...

The Proclamation of 1916 contained core ideas which represented the authors looking back to a series of different moments in the past....

The Government of Ireland Act which is more widely known as the Home Rule Act was passed by the UK Parliament in 1914, it was the third...

In Dublin in 1885, the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union, renamed the Irish Unionist Party in 1896, was formed. At the time, there was...

The Land Wars were a series of protests and periods of agitation led by the Irish Land League against landlords from 1879-1880. For many...

Whether or not to classify the Great Irish Famine as a genocide is a complex and controversial question and cannot be answered in so...

The 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act, or the Roman Catholic Relief Act, is often regarded as a ‘U-turn’ made by a Tory government. It is...

In 1800, the Act of Union legally united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great...

It has been 853 years since the invasion of Ireland by Anglo-Norman Lords,[1] sanctioned by the King of England at the time, Henry II....