Eighty-seven years ago this Sunday, a submarine surfaced off Ventry and handed Kerry a story that London took as proof Ireland was quietly helping Hitler.

A large-format painting by Lithuanian landscape master and watercolourist Jonas Buračas, Lithuania’s Gateway to the ...

As he publishes a riveting new history of the end of the Second World War, Sir Max Hastings takes aim at the PM... brace ...

THE Irish media industry has been plunged into mourning following the death of former RTE Correspondent Andrew Sheppard at ...

Nazi Germany was nowhere near developing a working nuclear reactor in 1945 as Allied troops closed in, a new study said, ...

A cube of natural uranium from the German nuclear project. Credit: John T. Consoli, University of Maryland College Park, MD.

Heavy water, graphite, and uranium: the study tallies what Germany had against what a working reactor required, and the numbers fall well short.

With six developers teaming up for the gargantuan project, the various housing clusters won’t lay a finger on the heritage ...

Napoleon II, the only son of Napoleon Bonaparte, died in Vienna in 1832 and spent more than a century buried in Austria.

The Manhattan Project was not just a quest to build a nuclear bomb; it was a quest to build one before Nazi Germany completed ...

Two women arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France survived the war and spent the decades that followed pushing their ...

September 27, 2026On September 27, 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, formally linking three major ...