The tragic and shocking story of the notorious Magdalene Laundries, a shameful system, created by the Irish State but supported by all strata of Irish society, which enslaved more than ten thousand women between 1922 and 1996.

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the cont...

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...

They come from all walks of life and have lived for almost a century. They have lived through the up...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...
American resort developers bear down on the wild west coast of Nicaragua, hoping to build the next t...

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

The evolution of skateboarding culture in Ireland since the late 1980s.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but ...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal struct...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...