Protesters took to the streets in Poland to protest the country’s crackdown on abortion access.
Silar
Some countries made abortion access easier during the pandemic. Others used it as an excuse for a crackdown.
Facebook’s data centre in Clonee, Ireland.
Thomas Nugent
Ireland is under pressure to investigate, and potentially fine, Facebook for alleged data breaches under GDPR.
Ireland has third-worst wage rate in EU.
Brendan Donnelly/Alamy
Ireland is looking at imposing a living wage on all employers.
Ex-hurricane Ophelia striking the British Isles on October 16, 2017.
NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
Storms which originate in the tropics and reach Europe aren’t as rare as scientists once thought.
In the 20th century Magdalene laundries were punitive institutions where young “fallen” women – pregnant and unmarried – endured a daily regime of silence, prayer and hard labour. The last Magdalene laundry closed in 1996.
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The conservative Catholic moral code that underpinned adoption in Ireland penalised vulnerable women and their children. Now a proposed new law seeks to redress the impact of this legacy of shame.
The Maze prison in Northern Ireland saw protest taken to the extreme in the 1970s and 1980s.
Alamy
Why would a group of people decide to spend months and years living semi-naked in squalid conditions?
Northern Irish protesters on April 7, 2021, burn the Peace Gate in Belfast, built in the 1990s to separate the city’s warring Protestant and Catholic communities.
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Brexit has reopened an old battle over Northern Irish identity, leading to clashes in the street. Scores have been injured in the troubled UK territory’s worst outbreak of violence in decades.
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Google mobility data shows people staying home less and visiting shops more than they were last spring.
EPA/PAUL MCERLANE
Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.
Detail of a collage work by Rosemary Karuga, Untitled, 1998.
© Karuga family/Courtesy Red Hill Art Gallery
The first female student at the famous Makerere University art school, Karuga only began an art career when she retired at 60. She ended up showing internationally.
A makeshift memorial to the children buried at the Tuam mother and baby home, whose identification in 2013 led to the mother and baby homes inquiry.
Niall Carson/PA
Most of those incarcerated in mid-20th century Ireland were held in psychiatric hospitals, which have kept their secrets until today. This must change.
Meet Ireland’s coral: this photo was taken 800 metres below the waves.
Aaron Lim
But these ‘cold-water coral’ are threatened by accelerating sea currents.
Maids, who invariably lived with their employers, were especially vulnerable.
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An ex-minister named John Lyford arrived at the nascent colony hoping for a fresh start. But he couldn’t escape his past.
Here’s hoping.
Brian Lawless/PA
Soon after Ireland announced the ‘strictest lockdown in Europe’, many other countries followed suit. Here’s how it’s going so far.
Sunset at Holyhead, Wales.
Stuart Bould
While the English Channel and Irish land border have received most of the Brexit attention, the Irish Sea ports are a major concern.
Duncan Andison/Shutterstock
Irish trade with the EU contributes an additional 34 tonnes of toxic nitrogen oxides to air in the UK each year.
Normal People.
BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu
From run by gangster and drug-ridden to a place of sexual freedom and opportunity, a spate of new screen productions are rehabilitating Dublin’s image.
EPA/Shawn Thew
The US is a key player in the Good Friday Agreement – but there’s an election to think about too.
SIngapore Grip: the final book in JG Farrell’s Empire Trilogy.
ITV Pictures
The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire.
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Sound and its subtle, malleable possibilities for interpretation can be a valuable tool for those trying to capture pasts that have been erased, marginalised or forgotten.