Conor Cruise O Brien

Ulster Scots win in Stormont deal could be considered preparation for defeat

Far from corrupt religion, these nuns inspired as strong female role models

The first Dáil and its successors remained wedded to a conservative model of politics

The 1916 Rising and War of Independence were only the tip of the iceberg in a greater social and political revolution spanning 50 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Do our current leaders have the same skills as those who helped secure the Belfast Agreement?

Politician, writer and diplomat discussed on centenary of his birth

The intellectual challenged the idea the pursuit of unity was the State’s main goal

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

Obituary: Liam Cosgrave was first elected to the Dáil at the age of 23

Like the Ireland of his time, Cosgrave’s achievements were a function of his limitations

FG leader was an uncompromising and often controversial political figure

Dublin Fire Brigade tenders bring blaze in north Co Dublin under control

From ‘Dress suitably, and buy a revolver’ and 'A terrible beauty' to 'We all partied'

British state papers: Rev Martin Smyth wrote to Thatcher in 1987 following seizure of 150 tonnes of arms travelling from Libya

Unfounded symphysiotomy claims, Obama and Ellen and fears about The Quiet Man

Anecdote about General Assembly address is one of most enduring in political history

‘We may have protests’, said Washington counsellor when film premiered in 1952

How the whip system has reduced the Dáil to a galley of whipped voting slaves

Fake Irish accents can be atrocious, like Tom Cruise’s, or brilliant, like Kate Hudson’s. But why not just give Irish actors the roles?

Presidential Unit Citation presented to soldiers and next of kin in Athlone

Richie Smyth’s film depicts the Irish soldiers who fought in UN’s 1961 Congo intervention

The two films are the pick of a crop that reveals the breadth of talent in Irish film

Counterfactual speculation about the timing of the Rising puts 1916 into its proper international context as a huge stimulus of political change in Europe and the world

Gathering looks at reception of the 1916 Rising everywhere from Iceland to China

Review: ‘Breakfast’, ‘Liveline’, ‘The Right Hook’, ‘Sunday with Miriam’

Retrospective public consent in 1918 election provides only limited justification

The elephant in the room is its obvious compatibility of Fianna Fáil with Fine Gael

in 1966 Fr Francis Shaw castigated the idea that Irish people in 1916 had been in need of redemption by the shedding of blood

Patrick Connolly resigned over Macarthur controversy in 1982

The diplomat and poet looks back on a life of love and adventure, challenge and tragedy

Statues were said to have moved at 30 Irish locations in 1985

As even the hostile critic FR Leavis conceded, in Yeats’s poetry ‘there is no element of a man’s experience in the twentieth century that, of its nature, it excludes’

Former archbishop of Armagh and primate of All Ireland Lord Eames attended the secondary school

The ‘Irish Times’ Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks project has published its first 30 entries, covering 1916-1945 – a time of paradoxical philistinism and creativity

Bob McDonagh: March 23rd, 1924 - May 3rd, 2015

Desmond Fisher: September 9th, 1920 - December 30th, 2014

Five Labour Party TDs supported a call from Ictu that all trade unionists, including journalists and broadcasters, should refuse to co-operate with the controversial visit of an all-white South African rugby team to Ireland, prompting this editorial in reply

Karl Miller: August 2nd, 1931 - September 24th, 2014