The Irish Times

Molecules, metaphors and the place of science in culture

One is contained within the other, but how does that manifest itself?

Thu Jun 02 2022 - 00:00

Centenary of British handover of Cork’s Collins Barracks marked

Minister says troops of 1922 would be proud of role Defence Forces play in peacekeeping

Wed May 18 2022 - 20:14

Bridge Notes: Veteran competitors win main pairs competition of Clonmel online congress

Team competition developed into tussle between a leading male quartet and four of the current national women’s squad

Mon Mar 28 2022 - 17:45

Handover of British rule: ‘After 700 years here, what difference does 7 minutes make?’

A hundred years ago this weekend marked the handover of British rule. This is an account of that day

Sat Jan 15 2022 - 06:00

Treaty vote split was as much about personality as it was about policy

Little divided the two sides in reality despite the bitterness of the ensuing split

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 11:24

Church was not hostile to the drive for independence

Rite & Reason: The Catholic bishops were not ambivalent – nor were they bystanders

Tue Jun 22 2021 - 01:00

Charles Townshend: Sinn Féin negotiated treaty that cut Ireland in two

100 years ago: How the Irish Border went from idea stage to fixture

Sat Apr 10 2021 - 06:00

Bridge Notes: Galway’s online congress attracts strong fields

European Bridge League has announced team championships planned for Madeira in June have been cancelled

Mon Apr 05 2021 - 15:42

The best medicine – Brian Maye on a lighter side to Arthur Griffith

An Irishman’s Diary

Wed Mar 03 2021 - 19:01

Bloody Sunday 1920: Who were Michael Collins’s hit team ‘The Squad’?

12 regular assassins were assisted by part-timers for ‘jobs’ including Bloody Sunday

Sat Nov 21 2020 - 06:00

An Irishman’s Diary on Josephine McNeill, an Irish diplomatic trailblazer

Mon Feb 17 2020 - 00:01

McDowell ‘deeply uncomfortable’ with Soldier F prosecution

Man is due to go on trial in 2020 for murder of two men and attempted murder of four others

Wed Oct 16 2019 - 20:45

RIC officer shot dead in revenge for treatment of republican prisoners

The Wexford files: Percival Lea-Wilson was seen by Michael Collins forcing Proclamation signatory Tom Clarke to strip naked

Tue Oct 15 2019 - 00:00

Widow of TD executed during Civil War took her own life

The Sligo files: Pension file reveals grieving wife of Seamus Devins drank disinfectant 14 years after his death