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The presumptive taoiseach used a familiar quote when introducing himself as leader, but whose line was it anyway?
Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being captured the suffocating absurdity of life
U2 singer awarded Fulbright Prize for International Understanding
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Voters hand defeat to PM Andrej Babis’s ANO party and back opposition group Together
Alex Winter’s documentary portrait of the musician should win over the most resistant
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This could be the beginning of the end of the UK as the centre now struggles to hold
Politics, we are told, is the art of the possible. But it is also, Vaclav Havel said, the art of the impossible – of making the world a better place
More than 200,000 people rally in Prague against populist premier and president
Milos Zeman’s ties with Putin and Jinping run counter to principles of the 1989 Velvet Revolution
Velvet Revolution anniversary finds Slovaks demanding change after journalist’s murder
Nation marks 30 years since Vaclav Havel and fellow dissidents swept into power
Oyub Titiev convicted on drugs charge he says is fabricated due to campaign work
Engrossing and beguiling, the Czech capital offers visitors a glimpse of its rich and glorious past
Pat Leahy: politics has been described as a combination of high purpose and low cunning
Billionaire election winner Babis and pro-Russian president Zeman alarm many Czechs
Tens of thousands expected to march amid rising European populism and xenophobia
All peoples, and that includes the people of Catalonia; have the right of self-determination.
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Chinese dissident’s last words to his wife Liu Xia were ‘Live on well’
Vaclav Havel provided a stirring example of leadership in challenging times, whether picking generals or asking citizens to ‘live in the truth’
Americans need to learn lessons from Europe’s communist past
Attack on centre that helps refugees reflects vitriol in nation’s debate on refugee crisis
Mary Robinson pushed the office ‘as far as the wall and peeped over, but didn’t cross it’
Tapestry unveiled depicting island of Manhattan as yellow submarine piloted by Lennon
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Big rallies in Hungary and Czech Republic bemoan leaders’ soft stance on Russia
The Berlin Wall’s fall was a death knell for a Soviet bloc in which the first fissures had appeared elsewhere
Conversations turn Beckettian when this festival of all things tragicomic doesn’t turn out as planned. Could it be any other way?
Sean Doran wants to make Happy Days a ‘destination festival’, turning Enniskillen, where the playwright and novelist went to school, into a Mecca for his fans
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