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The Dublin Festival of History aims to highlight fresh perspectives on history and its importance in our everyday lives. This year’s festival has attracted best-selling Irish and international historians to Dublin for a high-profile programme of history and debate.

Kathleen Clarke served as Lord Mayor for two terms, standing down as a councillor in 1941 on the grounds of ill health. Continuing to live an active public life until her death on 29th September 1972, she received a State funeral, the third of only three women to be so honoured.

Friday 8th July, 1921 a train carrying British troops; members of the Gordon Highlanders; and military supplies; cars, donkeys, horses, as well as civilians was ambushed as it passed under the railway bridge near the small hamlet of Ballyfermot.

Listen back as Cathy Scuffil discusses the response to Dublin's housing crisis after the collapse of tenements in Dublin’s Church Street in 1913.

Dublin City Council is delighted to launch a new series of audio guides celebrating the history of some of the city’s most fascinating burial grounds.

Last weekend I visited the beautiful Spanish city of Seville to attend my first La Liga football match, a clash between local side Real Betis and the visiting Atletico Madrid.

Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) was one of Dublin’s finest portrait painters but she also immersed herself in the political and social fabric of Dublin life, becoming the first female elected as a Dublin City Councillor in 1912.

On 8th July, 1921 a train carrying troops, military supplies, horses and civilians was ambushed by members of the 4th Battalion Dublin Brigade IRA as it passed under the railway bridge near the then rural hamlet of Ballyfermot.