Much has changed since partition ‘marooned’ Northern nationalists, but much has stayed the same

Early 20th century republicans revered his contemporary critics but their grandparents lived through the era of O’Connell as ‘the Liberator’ and champion of Catholic emancipation

The essential mission of anyone who takes the past seriously is “to make human understanding more profound”

Moygashel fire is bitterly ironic given how central the migrant experience is to Ulster’s history

Presidential elections generate an acute interest in who and what we would like to symbolise our Republic

There’s an opportunity to turn it into a building that can generate pride, and improve the perception of a space widely regarded as deficient and devoid of imagination

Researchers in the 1930s found that in some cases it was acceptable to beat a childless wife for being ‘barren’. Fifty years on, there’s no happy ending

AIB said this week it owes an ‘immense debt of gratitude’ to the Irish taxpayer. Indeed it does

What was deemed politically unacceptable by British imperialists a century ago is permitted today at hideous cost to the people of Gaza

Airlines will not reduce their carbon footprint if they dramatically increase the number of flights, whatever they say about cutting emissions per passenger

England is accustomed to seeing rivers as a filthy threat, but we can’t let the same thing happen here

The relentless focus on trade has skewed any determination to confront the terrifying echoes of the 1930s. Europeans should be much more vocal about it

Expect book burnings soon to further scapegoat the “enemies of the nation”

Diarmaid Ferriter: A layered overview of what drove the formidable republican and how she was perceived

Ireland has no equivalent of the Swedish concept of Allemansrätten (everyone’s right to roam) or the 225,000 km of public rights of way in England and Wales