In a word. . . My mother doesn’t remember much but she still knows all of us. Her children. Her troubles.

Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works

Declan Brady pleaded guilty to storing a range of guns and ammunition in Co Dublin

Free access to antenatal and maternity care was only finally introduced in 1954

We propose sites for new street names, sculptures for International Women’s Day

The artist and political activist has written his ‘reluctant memoir’ at 75. It’s dominated by one major absence: his wife and artistic compass, Betty, who died in 2011

The falsehoods, euphemisms and face-saving ruses that helped make us what we are

The tapes, recorded by hotelier Dermot Ryan in 1967, are an exceptional political testament

Lemass believed his row with the bishop of Galway led to his ‘enormous vote’ in the 1944 general election

Seán Lemass on . . . the British, colleagues, world leaders . . .

Nikita Murtagh’s actions were ‘probably the result of misplaced sense of family loyalty’

Men found with firearms in Dublin business park to be sentenced at end of month

The Clash played Trinity College 40 years ago today. The student organisers recall the British punks' explosive 1977 visit to Ireland

Analysis: Higgins says pope ‘indispensable voice of humanity’

Dr Chris Fitzpatrick compares recent controversy to Mother and Child Scheme row

Late ex-minister published incendiary autobiography Against the Tide 30 years ago

Jim Gavin’s men will be feeling all the pressure ahead of replayed All-Ireland final

Call for improved facilities for mental illness patients in Dáil debate

Parties are going out of their way to avoid defining themselves as either left or right