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Greece Letter: Near-desperate calls from Athens for solidarity and support cut little ice
Where to now after the debacle over the RIC/DMP commemoration?
Row does not auger well for the years and the many other commemorations ahead
How did plans to remember the RIC and DMP become so controversial?
Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan hoped event would rehabilitate forces’ reputation
Cork to be central to plans to mark the War of Independence in 2020
City’s Lord Mayor says events of 1920 will be marked with a year-long programme
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Giuliana Chamedes’s new book is revelatory but leaves some key questions unanswered
Éamon de Valera’s US trip that left Irish America divided
America Letter: One hundred years ago a tour failed to co-opt official America to Ireland’s cause
Belgium to apologise for historic kidnapping scandal
Mixed-race children taken from Congolese mothers and fostered by Catholic orders
Shock of the nude? Adam’s Irish Art sale majors in the human form
The sales feature a selection of nude styles, from the stark anatomical realism of John Luke’s Nude Male to Louis le Brocquy’s subtle Being
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What’s happening with the proposed new ’League of Nations’ and how will it impact on Irish rugby?
The poisonous myth: Democratic Germany’s ‘stab in the back’ legend
Knowledge of the perilous condition of war front was kept secret from German people
Wilson was urged to support presence of Irish voice at Paris Peace Conference
Irish republicans sought discussion on independence at peace negotiations
How the plea for Irish independence made its way to Paris
Sean T Ó Ceallaigh and George Gavan Duffy attempted to win France over to the cause
Blow by blow: Timeline of the War of Independence
How the war began and how it progressed over the course of 1919
2019 will be centenary central as Ireland remembers turbulent past
Government advised it should largely leave War of Independence centenaries to local communities
Inside the Belfast college that moulded peace-makers and Brexiteers
New illustrated book celebrates 150th anniversary of Methody in Northern capital
Full text: President Higgins’ inaugural speech
Higgins calls for ‘Republic of inclusivity, love and joy’ as he is inaugurated for second term
‘Being Irish abroad is like having a subtle superpower’
A cold reception is instantly warmed when people realise where I’m from
Philip Stephens: Sovereignty and self-determination collide in Catalonia
As with every supposedly immutable law, secession for every group that lays claim to nationhood does not fit every circumstance
Irish diplomat ‘sold Nazis wine’ during second World War
Hermann Göring listed as first of Count Gerald O’Kelly’s ‘many German clients’
The Susan Denham way: low-key, principled and effective
Analysis: The outgoing Chief Justice has reached the end of a remarkable career
America Letter: US policy towards Assad is hardening, but actions have consequences
Trump will learn there are no easy answers to the Syrian conflict
Security Council veto should not apply for war crimes
World leaders must act together to end any such violation of human dignity
When the government invaded our kitchens
Governments have a long history of interest in their citizens’ diets
Diarmaid Ferriter: Kenny must justify his lead role on Brexit
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