The Diary Review

André Michaux, a French botanist and explorer sent to North America in search of new species to replenish the forests of France, was born 27...

The Galtee Boy, a fanatical Irish republican by the name of John Sarsfield Casey, was born 170 years ago today. Imprisoned and then deported...

Had he lived, Robin Cook, a British Labour party politician who served as Foreign Secretary under Tony Blair, would have reached three score...

Today marks the 310th anniversary of the death of John Evelyn, a contemporary and friend of Samuel Pepys, who described him as a ‘most excel...

‘Each word is a wish or a curse. One must be careful not to make words once one has acknowledged the power of the living word. The artist’s ...

Diary kept by Marian Andersen -  Smithsonian WWI diary of battle in African jungle -  Mail Online ,  Express Tipperary parish priest dia...

‘TB said in ’97, no one must think ‘we are masters now’. We must focus on our duty to serve - or something similar. The reality of his behav...

‘Married men are paid by the keep of a cow, a house, potatoe & flax ground, with a certain yearly sum in money. At one period of the war...