A newly-discovered photograph of Irish writer, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde has sold for more than €6,000 at an auction in Britain today https://t.co/xUBFUsDlo1
An intriguing story from @MarkHennessy about a highly unusual move by the Irish Government: A declassified file naming Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly as an IRA leader has effectively been reclassified by being withdrawn from the Irish National Archives.
https://t.co/np4t1hQl7d
100 days to go! ⏳
On its centenary, the 1926 Census, the first of the Irish Free State, will be released. In 1926: 🌾 51% Agriculture
🏭 14% Manufacturing
🏠 7% Domestic service
🚋 5% Transport
Discover #TheStoryOfUs: https://t.co/H36UV5uSpv
It's day two of four of the #StatePapers from the @NARIreland so here's what's in today's files (never thought I'd see pandas, paramilitaries and divorce in the same sentence, but that's the world we live in).
See the next few tweets for what's on offer today
It's that time of year again when the annual State Papers are released - but what are they and what's in them?
Over the next four days, myself and my colleagues @evelyn_orourke
and @HarryJManning will be covering the key files.
Here's an explainer:
https://t.co/5wQPMmqMrO
Members of the Defence Forces have joined a search for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield in Belgium, as a campaign to try repatriate the Irish war hero back to Ireland enters its final phase
https://t.co/3J1u2gfxwy
Voting in the Presidential Election takes place on Friday, 24 October, and the deadline to register to vote is Tuesday, 7 October
https://t.co/pHv27OLvlv
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the party's participation in the Presidential Election campaign will be a 'gamechanger' https://t.co/xBRb6LClnc
As @GregAllenRTE said, the maths student has got his calculations right!
Not only has Longford's Cian McPhillips won his semi-final heat to get into an 800m World final but he's set an Irish record in the process #Tokyo2025
📺 https://t.co/XnOP6grnB7
The Tánaiste has said he is open to Irish troops being sent on peacekeeping missions to Ukraine, but only when there is a peace in the region. Simon Harris told the Dail that Defence Forces members would not be sent to an active warzone via @HarryJManning
President Michael D Higgins said some of the EU's strongest members are "deciding to stay silent in watching emaciated children in what is a human, manmade, really atrocious infliction on people" in Gaza
https://t.co/GXZhoXyJhc