The blue-green smoothie ruling the country has no plan and even less passion
Civil War politics energised the Government parties. Now they’ve nothing left to do but pump out money
Éamon de Valera
‘People afraid to say they are Jewish’: Dublin event marks October 7th attacks on Israel
Jewish community ‘told whether we belong in Ireland depends on how we feel about Israel’, synagogue hears
John Schwatschke: Irish artist who lived in world of Rolls-Royces and Hollywood hell-raisers
Irishman who lived in world of Rolls-Royces and Hollywood hell-raisers credited cut of his suits by Johnson’s tailors of Tullow with easing his passage into wealthy society
The Foggy Dew: Frank McNally on the Rising ballad’s confused origins and contested lyrics
Legend has it the song’s genesis can be traced to the first Dáil, but facts prove otherwise
The new map of Earth is a wake-up call for Ireland
On the Equal Earth map, Ireland suddenly looks a lot more northernly and a lot less central - no longer the much-vaunted ‘island at the centre of the world’
Elegant Limerick home that hosted Éamon de Valera and Richard Harris
Sunville House was owned by Donogh O’Malley, who introduced free secondary education in Ireland
As Shane Lowry watches on, Donald Trump reinvents himself as champion of all things Irish
The secret service needn’t have worried – the biggest danger at Doonbeg was an Irish golfer with a red-hot putter
A Nation Once Again by Paul Howard: Funny and scabrous novel is a propulsive caper
How does a writer include so much detail, and so many sensitive issues, without making something everyone will hate?
The Irish Times view on commemorating the past: which way to de Valera Street?
Ireland is reticent about memorialising its historical figures
Former Supreme Court judge Hugh O’Flaherty a ‘brilliant legal brain’, funeral Mass hears
‘He brought a compassion to the bench, which wasn’t always admired by the most strict lawyers,’ son tells mourners in Co Kerry
Flirting with Evil – The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation: A sprawling but intelligent history
Book is essentially a 400-page charge sheet of blunders and scandals that resulted from identity crisis in organisation
In raising divorce and equal pay, Seán Lemass’s 1966 committee was way ahead of its time
Lemass joined the committee after resigning as taoiseach, reflecting his view that the Constitution needed to be modernised
Remembering Tomi Reichental: a gentle man who never gave in to bitterness
Holocaust survivor was resident of Dublin for more than 60 years
RTÉ’s David McCullagh to give 2026 Béal na Bláth commemoration address
Circumstances turned Michael Collins into a negotiator and constitutional craftsman, says broadcaster
‘Ireland means a lot to us in India with our own freedom struggle,’ Gandhi’s grandson says
Academic and writer Gopalkrishna Gandhi is participating in Jaipur Literary Festival in Dublin
A ‘very important figure’: Former IRA chief of staff Moss Twomey to be honoured in Co Cork
Former Fianna Fáil TD Ned O’Keeffe defends decision to honour man interned by Éamon de Valera over fears he would overthrow State
Fianna Fáil at 100: ‘They could certainly teach the Tories and UK Labour a thing or two’
Flexibility, pragmatism and ruthless, unceasing dedication to winning and retaining power have been the party’s hallmarks
Fianna Fáil at 100 is a white man’s party with a woman problem
No party can claim to have ‘something for everyone’ when it has a woman problem like Fianna Fáil’s
Government urged to impose sanctions on Israel in same way De Valera did on Italy in 1935
Richard Boyd Barrett introduces Bill to sanction Israel, break off ‘all economic trade, financial relations’
The Irish Times view on 100 years of Fianna Fáil: party of power and pragmatism
Leadership has always been central to the party’s sense of who it is
Road to perdition: Frank McNally on the strange, tragic fate of a Kerry historian in 1920s America
A new documentary tells the story of Patrick Foley, who left Dingle in 1909 and died violently in mysterious circumstances
Fianna Fáil created a middle class but has little to say to a generation unable to join it
With its disastrous housing policies, Fianna Fáil has lost touch with its own successes
Éamon de Valera in Ballsbridge, ‘Sam A Barclay Beckett’ in Foxrock: Who was where 100 years ago?
Details on public figures and their whereabouts and families are contained in the 1926 Census
‘How different things are now’: Some of Ireland’s oldest people on what life was like over the last 100 years
‘Isn’t it marvellous for people to be able to read about their grandparents?’ Three ‘centenarians ambassadors’ recall what they have seen
Dr Niall Tierney obituary: Dedicated public servant who helped protect older people from financial abuse
Former chief medical officer in Department of Health previously worked in British Merchant Navy as ship’s doctor
Seán Lemass, The Lost Memoir: Leadership, Ireland’s economic transformation and Fianna Fáil
Ronan McGreevy’s new book edits 22 hours of private recordings to reveal the inner workings of the former taoiseach’s mind
The head of Michael D Higgins: John Coll on the making of a presidential bust
Sculpture of the ninth president now sits in Áras an Uachtaráin, alongside those of his predecessors
David McWilliams: Sinn Féin’s class-war language is more British than Irish
Voters wary as Mary Lou McDonald’s party beats all-or-nothing, Marxist drum on housing
Lemass did not want to keep old divisions alive, Taoiseach says at launch of new book
Sean Lemass, The Lost Memoir by Irish Times journalist Ronan McGreevy is based on a trove of private recordings not made public for 50 years
‘I left Ireland and became foreign correspondent for The Guardian, only to encounter echoes of Roger Casement’
Rory Carroll on his quest to chronicle a largely hidden aspect of the 1916 Rising: the two-year tracking and pursuit of Roger Casement by Britain’s security services
Neil Tully’s The Visit: ‘I wrote the sort of novel I like to read – a small town, a sense of trouble lurking’
The first-time novelist talks inspiration, the influence of JFK on Ireland, and troubled outcasts
Glenroe, Bosco, Mrs Brown’s Boys: The best and worst Irish TV shows ever made
Put your feet up as we bring you the best of Irish television – and then take a deep breath as we run through the worst
‘Even if the US president is an idiot ...’ Six lessons from Seán Lemass for today’s politicians
The former Taoiseach recorded a memoir in the 1960s in which he spoke of the lessons he learned from five decades in politics
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
While Éamon de Valera emerged from his good war thanks to his political manoeuvring, he did make one ‘unforced error’
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