Contesting the silence: Irish language writers on the Civil War
Notable exceptions were made to widespread desire to forget conflict
Tibb’s the Season – Frank McNally on the patron saint of things that never happen
An Irishman’s Diary
Pension pathway fraught with political risk
Government must address competing priorities on hot potato of old-age payment
Mary MacSwiney: The mourning sister who turned to politics
An uncompromising stance on the Treaty negotiations was indelibly formed by the experience of watching her brother, Terence MacSwiney, die on hunger strike
Rise of Ireland’s far right relies on abandoned social conservatives
Nativist politics have not played a big role in recent Irish elections. Might that change?
Patriot Games – Frank McNally on political art theft, football as opera, and Lenin’s Irish accent
An Irishman’s Diary
Charles Townshend: Sinn Féin negotiated treaty that cut Ireland in two
100 years ago: How the Irish Border went from idea stage to fixture
Teresa Deevy and the secrets of the green suitcase
Best known for her productions at the Abbey, the Waterford playwright also wrote for radio, and there’s a mystery surrounding the origins of unpublished work under a pseudonym
Without the Blueshirts, there would have been no Fine Gael
Claiming continuity with Michael Collins helps Fine Gael forget its troubling origins
Historic coalition agreement ends almost a century of Civil War politics
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were forged out of the bitterness of an ancient quarrel
The Americanisation of Ireland: Our relationship with America was not all one way
Book review: David Fitzpatrick combines rigorous analysis with human experiences
Time for measured debate about the prospect of a united Ireland
Diarmaid Ferriter: Fine Gael needs to back up its rhetoric on the North
War of Independence seen as Catholic war on Protestants
Rite & Reason: Nationalist Ireland almost universally condemned the Soloheadbeg killings as murder
A man for all treasons – Frank McNally on a new book about Ernest Blythe: republican, fascist, and Orangeman
An Irishman’s Diary
Ireland’s democratic legacy is taken for granted, academic suggests
Cosgrave and de Valera deserve credit for preserving democracy in the new State
Seán Lemass tapes: the split in Sinn Féin and setting up of Fianna Fáil
The old Sinn Féin had collected ‘all sorts of queer cranks’ with ‘people making speeches in favour of vegetarianism and the single tax’
The New York theatre that’s kept Teresa Deevy’s flame alive
Deevy fell out of favour with Abbey management after writing six plays in the 1930s
Diarmaid Ferriter: a history of partition and Europe’s role
The British establishment lacked consistency while the Free State washed its hands
Looking back on the Tipperary hurlers 1926 US tour
The All-Ireland champions headed to Cobh to sail across the Atlantic with great fanfare
Diarmaid Ferriter: Can Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil put national interest first?
The challenge is to provide a contemporary response to the points addressed by Blythe in 1927 and Kelly in the 1970s
Culture Shock: ‘The Plough and the Stars’ is back. Must be time for a riot, so
Seán O’Casey’s play and its staging have always been cultural and political lightning rods
Dispatches from the theatrical front: a look behind the Abbey’s boardroom scenes, from 1904 to 1939
The newly digitised minute books of the Abbey Theatre’s board meetings during its early decades reveal a host of remarkable struggles, from attempted censorship by Dublin Corporation to artistic disputes at the top of the theatre
Diarmaid Ferriter: Unite us, Lord, but not if it costs money
Despite the rhetoric, there is a deep ambivalence about partition throughout Ireland
Television: Nigella’s living well. It’s the best revenge
Review: ‘Designing Ireland’, ‘The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds’, ‘Simply Nigella’
Secret police files relating to Easter Rising released
Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) obsessively monitored future rebels
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach takes shine off TD’s baubles
Absence of all-party agreement a deterrent to setting up national awards scheme – Kenny
Bruton opens up differences with Kenny on 1916
Use of violence in Rising did not meet a criterion for just war, says former taoiseach
Irish translation of ‘Dracula’ funded by minister who slashed the old-age pension
A fresh insight into Mr Blythe’s economic stewardship has been highlighted by the discovery of a rare copy of Dracula “as Gaeilge”
Poll reveals thriving FG but little joy for listless Labour
Opinion: Popularity of Noonan out of line with fate of previous finance ministers who introduced harsh budgets
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