British society suffers ‘amnesia’ over Anglo-Irish Treaty, conference hears
Historian claims deal enabling Irish independence ‘not given significance it deserves’
Smyllie’s people: The Irish Times editor and southern Protestant identity
RM Smyllie spoke to and for Irish Protestants trying to make sense of postwar Ireland
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer
A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages
Protestants in Ireland: a minority in search of an identity?
Community links typical in Wexford not necessarily to be found elsewhere
Protestants in the Republic: Inclusion and exclusion, resilience and pride
Brian Dobson, Heather Humphreys, Jan O’Sullivan and others on growing up in a Catholic dominated State
‘Remarkable’ contribution of Protestants to State largely forgotten, Minister says
Heather Humphreys says faith has been dominated by Catholic majority since time of independence
The constitutional heritage of the Irish revolution
The 1916 Rising and War of Independence were only the tip of the iceberg in a greater social and political revolution spanning 50 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Are Protestants closer to the ideal of model citizen than Catholics?
A study threw up surprising results on the accepted wisdom about Protestant aloofness
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 review: lady of letters
The Dublin-born author’s passionate, promiscuous nature is laid bare in this well-edited collection, as are her conflicted views on Ireland, ‘island of spells, provincial pigsty’
In praise of Iris Murdoch, by Ian d’Alton
Irish Women Writers: one of the great writers in English, her relationship as a southern Protestant exile with the land of her birth, as explored in both her fiction and personal life, was conflicted but fascinating
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