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Call for records about mother and baby institutions and Magdalen Laundries

A call has been made for records relating to former mother and baby institutions, Magdalen Laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland. It comes as part of a Truth Recovery Programme to investigate what happened at those institutions which operated ...

11 Feb 2025 at 10:41

National News

President Mary McAleese pledged to help spread Ulster Scots message in Ireland

Former Irish president Mary McAleese pledged to do whatever she could to secure more recognition of Ulster Scots culture in the Republic of Ireland, archives show. The commitment from Mrs McAleese was made to members of the Ulster Scots Agency at a ...

28 Dec 2023 at 09:00

National News

Minister announces partnership with historical institutions of Washington

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has announced a partnership with Washington’s historical institutions to uncover and tell stories of shared history. During a visit to the Library of Congress in the US capital, Mr Lyons outlined the project to ...

15 Mar 2025 at 11:34

Northern Ireland

Mandelson was advised not to refer to Ireland as ‘The Free State’

New Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson was advised to avoid referring to the Republic of Ireland as “The Free State” or “The Republican Government” when he took up the role in October 1999, newly declassified files have revealed. Mr ...

24 Aug 2023 at 00:01

Northern Ireland

Bid to bring historical treasures from birth of US to Belfast for exhibition

Plans are progressing to bring historical treasures across the Atlantic for an exhibition in Northern Ireland marking the region’s unique contribution to the founding of the US. Gillian Doherty, a senior archivist at the Public Record ...

02 Jan 2026 at 11:07

National News

Work begins to conserve one of the oldest paper documents on island of Ireland

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland. Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical register belonging to the former archbishop ...

26 Dec 2024 at 18:02

Northern Ireland

McAleese husband’s contacts with UDA took on ‘life of own’, ambassador was told

Contacts between former Irish president Mary McAleese’s husband and UDA leaders in Northern Ireland took on “a life of their own”, a UK government official said in 2003. Declassified files show that engagements included Martin ...

30 Dec 2025 at 00:01

National News

Recovery of lost archives from Public Records Office fire ‘breathtaking’

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has described the recovery of lost archives from the fire that engulfed the Public Records Office a century ago as “breathtaking”. Decades of Irish history went up in flames when the archives were ...

27 Jun 2022 at 16:06

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