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# History

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Thousands of Northern refugees streamed over the border in the 1970s - some were called "ungrateful"
Thank you for the 40 pairs of socks: the Irish care packages of WWI
Boiled pike and Queen Elizabeth's cure for a cold: A rare cookery book from the 1680s
Tyrone tonight elected the first woman chairperson of a GAA county board in Ireland
8 Irish characters who were changed forever by World War I
7 important Irish moments, improved by Brian McFadden in his Toy Show suit
The Irish government were briefed on flying saucers in 1950
A bedroom frozen in time - the interiors of a life 100 years ago
What else could I get for... the €3.5 million pricetag on this Georgian mansion in Wicklow
Ancient Waterford site reveals Vikings moved from raiding to trading
IN IMAGES: A brief history of the Irish protest
Extract: The bits of Irish history you weren't taught at school
Damian Corless
11 of the most humiliating defeats in Premier League history
How the CIA tried to raise a lost Soviet submarine with a giant crane — and sort of succeeded
Take This Tricky Irish History Quiz
Column: Remembering the American Civil War through one Irish family's story
Damian Shiels
$125-a-ticket Famine Commemoration Gala dinner will be a "sombre, respectful" affair
Irish items are in this incredible Viking hoard found in a Scottish field
These historic photos of Dublin are great
Tubbercury are Sligo champions as St Michael's ease into their first ever Galway SFC decider
Kilmacud Crokes to meet St Jude's in Dublin senior hurling final
Gaffney's last-gasp winner leads Limerick to first-ever win at Brandywell
Heritage Ireland: A born fighter, bloody battles and the castle at the heart of it
One Million Dubliners: 'Everyone has someone buried in Glasnevin'
Remember when Tayto packets looked like this?
Extract: The passionate and inspirational women of the Irish Revolution – in photos
Elizabeth Gillis
Happy birthday Nintendo! The gaming giant is 125 years old today
Some of Ireland's strangest old laws are to be repealed
Is the government protecting the wrong house on Moore Street?
Extract: 16 Dead Men – The Easter Rising Executions
Anne-Marie Ryan
What's being done about historic gravestones at the 'Cabbage Gardens' being vandalised?
How to change the password for your WiFi modem
Executioners, Vikings and women at war... Dublin's history unlocked
Heritage Ireland: The church at the crossroads of Dublin's ancient past
What to see in THE MIDLANDS on Culture Night
93-year-old former Auschwitz guard charged with 300,000 crimes
Here's the ancient bog body discovered in Co Meath
Danish archaeologists uncover ringed Viking fortress for first time in 60 years
200 years ago there was an Ireland v Russia hurling match in London
Column: Who was the Irish nanny in the (other) White House?
Frank Burns