State to auction €750m worth of Irish treasury bills

NTMA plans to raise a total of between €20-€24bn of long-term funding this year

NTMA raises €1.5bn mainly at negative rates

Latest bond auction brings to €20 billion amount NTMA has raised on long-term debt markets so far this year

Central Bank governor to call for ‘credible’ path’ to cut State debt post-Covid-19

High level of debt will leave State vulnerable to future shocks, warns Makhlouf

The poet as press attaché – An Irishman’s Diary on John Betjeman in Ireland

NTMA could raise €4bn in sale of 10-year bonds

Market conditions and investor feedback led to decision to sell long-term facility

NTMA broadens borrowing plans as Donohoe eyes 7.5% budget deficit

Agency set to raise between €20 billion and €24 billion in long-term bond markets in 2020

The forgotten Irishwoman who once ruled the New York fashion industry

Dubliner Carmel Snow gave Truman Capote his first major platform, and launched Dior and Balenciaga in the US market

State hits 40% of minimum 2020 funding target with bond sale

NTMA sells 15-year bond to carry 0.45% yield

NTMA to borrow less next year as it focuses on paying down debt

Agency sold €15.4bn of long-term bonds this year, at the lower end of its full-year target

Upperdown review: Murder, mayhem and maths in Tipperary

David Brennan’s clever Irish debut presents a deeply unsettling world

NTMA makes rare use of inflation-linked bond to raise €300m

Debt management agency used product only once before, raising €609.5m in April 2017

The Big Fellow review: A lesson in what happens when you stop teaching history

Based on Frank O’Connor’s life of Michael Collins, Declan Gorman’s play misses its mark

In a word ... laughter

My father and I were at war but peace broke out when Stan & Ollie came on TV

‘Ireland is the country for ruins’: Why I seek out our abandoned homes

Thank the damp climate for our many ruined castles, cottages, ballrooms and barns

Top BBC journalist honoured at Cork Person of the Year

Fergal Keane pays tribute to native city during ceremony for Hall of Fame award

NTMA to raise up to €18bn next year as ECB ends QE

Government also faces an interest bill of €5.32 billion

The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’

US author James Mustich says the book that took him 14 years to write should be thought of as a kind of imaginary bookshop

NTMA highlights Brexit risks to Irish bonds

Agency says recent move in credit spreads is ‘noteworthy’

‘Fiction is becoming darker, weirder, bent-out-of-shape’

Ashley Stokes, who publishes the Unthology series of short fiction, on the state of the short story in Ireland and the UK

Hoor You To Talk? – An Irishman’s Diary about unparliamentary language

NTMA reaches 80% of minimum 2018 bond sales target

Bonds due in 2022 carry yield of 0.02%

Theo Dorgan: Back to the house my father built

Home is where you start out into the world from; you are never truly completely there, and you never leave

Fitch upgrades Ireland’s credit rating to A+

Rating agency cites significant reduction in Ireland’s annual debt service costs

The Phantom Flann – An Irishman’s Diary about the framing of Brian O’Nolan for a photograph he wasn’t in

O’Nolan spent his career pretending to be other people.  And sometimes even the other people were not who they were supposed to be

NTMA plans to raise €14bn-€18bn in 2018

Debt-management agency outlines plans for upcoming year

Eimear McBride on Edna O’Brien’s ‘rigorous, beautiful’ The Country Girls

This famous, infamous, beloved and influential novel didn’t break the mould. It made it

Moody’s upgrades Ireland’s rating to A2 with ‘stable outlook’

Paschal Donohoe says move is an acknowledgement of economic improvement

The State of Us, Part 2: Irish identity is no longer fit for purpose

Ireland’s old markers of land, nationality and religion fail to reflect changes in society

BBC rejected Waiting for Godot as ‘too Irish’

The BBC, formed in the same year as the Irish Free State, became an imaginary homeland for Irish writers from Yeats and MacNeice to Beckett and Bowen

State opens new avenue to raise money ahead of €29bn refinancing

NTMA sells €609.5m through issuance of first-ever inflation-linked bond

Ithaca review: Fierce and funny modern odyssey

Alan McMonagle’s enthralling debut follows an Irish teenager trying to imagine a better life

Number Seven’s Son – An Irishman’s Diary about the cryptographer and friend of Joyce, John Francis Byrne

William Trevor: Writers are outsiders with no place in society

Obituary: Writer of ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ and novelist made Irish themes universal

Madge Herron: Eccentric and brilliant Irish poet of London’s streets

The legacy of the Donegal-born poet and performer has been reclaimed in a new book

Body found believed to be farmer whose tractor fell into river

The 70-year-old, living in north Kerry, had not been seen since Monday

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Irish road to modernity has no straight lines

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

Fintan O’Toole: Pathological narcissism stymies Fianna Fáil support for Fine Gael

Party needs to convince itself that the beautiful reflection it sees in the mirror is a real, and utterly unique, self

Abbey archive – act one, scene one: Sexism and censorship

Abbey Theatre unveils digitised papers revealing role of era’s Irish literary giants

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1946 – The Becker Wives, by Mary Lavin

The four stories in this fine collection by an unpredictable, taboo-breaching writer capture a mood of struggling with confinement

Irish culture in 1945 was both lively and bleak

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

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