Margaret Thatcher’s moods, Garret FitzGerald’s outburst – a diplomat looks back
Late British diplomat David Goodall recalls the creation of the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement
‘Newly discovered’ Lavery to be auctioned at end of June
The painting, In Morocco, has been in the same family collection since the 1930s
EU freezes 10 banks out of bond sales over antitrust breaches
Big names involved in past market-rigging scandals barred from lucrative recovery plan
Irish civilian dead of WW2 to be recognised as Commonwealth casualties
Concentration camp victim among 52 people to be remembered in Westminster Abbey
Doing well out of doing good does not always add up
Sometimes investors have to choose between their values and their pocket books
Former judge’s slice of heaven on Wicklow lakeshore for €1.25m
Retired judge Pat McCartan's idyllic Pineridge Farm overlooks Lough Poulaphouca
Robert Armstrong takes a swipe at explosive landscapes
‘Squeegee Paintings’, the new exhibition by the former head of painting at NCAD, is all about what's left out
Declassified files help to correct ‘distorting’ narrative of Thatcher’s memoirs
Analysis: Records suggest she was irascible on Ireland, shallow and very often uncertain on detail
John Bowman: How Irish diplomats ‘dined for Ireland’
State Papers: 1987 files describe mission to promote Anglo-Irish Agreement
Haughey told Thatcher that Ireland was financially ‘up against the wall’
State Papers 1987: Then taoiseach jokingly asked for loan of ‘£2bn or so’ from British PM
‘Tough nuts’ Haughey and Thatcher get reacquainted as London says it’s business as usual
The nightmare for any Irish government was the extradition of an innocent citizen who would be wrongly jailed
Gerry Adams appealing 1975 jail escape convictions
Interned Sinn Féin leader was on IRA talks delegation in London before re-arrest
State papers: Officials feared unionist declaration of independence
Plan to invade the North ‘last resort’ in case of ‘unrestrained assault’ on nationalists
UDR slight to minister over dinner invite angered Northern Ireland secretary
State papers 1986: Event came after series of allegations about the regiment
Sir Robert Armstrong: ‘Nothing will ever be the same again in NI’
State papers 1986: UK secretary said Anglo-Irish Agreement resulted in ‘fundamental change’
State papers 1986: Peter Robinson plotted an independent state
Northern Ireland’s former First Minister was ‘saying things about independence’
Thatcher was a chameleon on Ireland even after Anglo-Irish Agreement
State Papers 1986: the year after agreement was signed relations remained complex
Art review: unexpected views at ‘Slips and Glimpses’ and the world map reimagined
New work from Robert Armstrong, Anna Bjerger and Kathy Prendergast
Peter Barry: the man who helped cajole the Iron Lady into Anglo-Irish Agreement
Business success of the Barry’s Tea owner was secondary to his political impact
State Papers: Tortuous road to Anglo-Irish Agreement
Thatcher had concerns, feared unionist reaction, but officials and FitzGerald pressed on
Keeping the lady onside for the Anglo-Irish Agreement
State Papers 1985: Taoiseach careful to keep Margaret Thatcher engaged during talks
Lord Gowrie told Irish diplomats about British spying
State Papers 1985: Member of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet warned of eavesdropping
New Ireland Forum helped begin process of changing hearts and minds
Shift in nationalist demands allowed forum to become launchpad for lobbying
The real deal that changed the game
Thirty years ago on Sunday November 15th, FitzGerald and Thatcher sealed deal at a press conference at which everything was sweetness and light . . .
Theresa Villiers rejects Kincora abuse inquiry request
Amnesty calls for Belfast boys’ home to be included in Westminster investigation
MI5 warned Thatcher over abuse allegations against MP
Newly uncovered documents contains references to Kincora home in Northern Ireland
Mick O’Dea redraws Irish history
Books about the work of O’Dea and Robert Armstrong are, respectively, provocative and sumptuous
Vera Klute studies the human animal in its natural habitat
The German-born artist’s exceptional show is disturbing and even slightly creepy
Fascinated by surfaces and what lies beneath
Robert Armstrong’s work is influenced by his training as an academic not to make easy assumptions about art
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