It is the cut lower lip in the great open-mouthed gape of Dublin Bay - a pitiless shapeshifter conjuring up a dead pharaoh or a lurking whale. Through earthquakes and ship wrecks, its jagged cliffs have borne stony-faced witness to lives teetering between life and death. Many souls, working or living under its shadow or simply out for a day’s stroll, met violent ends there or had their lives changed forever. The Queen of Romania climbed it and, if reports are true, so did the

It was home to several high-profile entrepreneurs who scaled financial heights only to suffer loss of fortune in the autumn of their lives

One of the handful of individuals who concealed Lord Edward Fitzgerald when he went into hiding from March to May of 1798 was Henry Kennedy

For the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen- Belsen Camp, Historyeye charts the life of an Irish doctor who was there, P.J. Fox.

The printer and businessman Charles Wisdom Hely (1857-1929) lived at Oakland , now St. Luke's Hospital , Rathgar, along with his wife...

Here is a reminder of the turbulent Dublin neighbourhood that may have shaped Bram Stoker's imagination as a child.