George Orwell

West in danger of repeating Soviet ideological assault on science

New ideologies should be carefully discussed, not uncritically insinuated into general culture

Turbulent Priest – Frank McNally on John Ball, the Peasants’ Revolt, and the last of the English Villains

An Irishman’s Diary

(No) Danger Here – Frank McNally on how George Orwell got it badly wrong about football

An Irishman’s Diary

Kerry’s Paul Geaney: ‘We’re fully behind the management team’

After ‘torture’ of losing to Cork in championship, footballer is relishing return to play

News Corp agrees $349m deal for consumer arm of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Purchase of unit is Murdoch company’s second publishing buy in less than a week

No G-Men – Frank McNally on the politics of English accents

An Irishman’s Diary

You could fill a book with doubleplusungood uses of ‘Orwellian’

George Orwell is common shorthand for ‘mean people are being mean to me because they’re mean’

Bertelsmann wins battle for Simon & Schuster with $2.18bn deal

Penguin owner ‘very confident’ of regulatory approval despite competition concerns

Joan Armatrading: ‘I’ve had people say I’m too black, or not black enough’

The singer-songwriter has been doing extraordinary things ever since she arrived in Britain alone aged 6

Fintan O’Toole: Voters can get Trump out of office and our heads

The president’s success in forcing himself into our thoughts will be his downfall

Brave New World gets the 2020 treatment: ‘No privacy. No family. No monogamy’

Aldous Huxley’s novel gets 21st-century makeover in new Sky One series

Fintan O’Toole: Covid-19 pandemic might be good for the arts – eventually

Current scenario heightens our perceptions and new artists will emerge from it

Eastern Promise –Frank McNally on a disorienting year

An Irishman’s Diary

Season’s Greetings – Frank McNally on the ups and downs of autumn 2020

An Irishman’s Diary

Jennifer O’Connell: Ireland has its attitude to travel back to front

The Government needs to worry about who is flying in, not who is flying out

51 days on a ventilator: How ‘Miracle Larry’ survived coronavirus

New Yorker suffered seizures, infections, fevers, pneumonia and cerebral haemorrhages. But he overcame it all to keep his promise to his wife: ‘I’ll never stop fighting’

Book quiz: ‘A plague on both your houses’ is from which Shakespeare play?

Welcome to The Irish Times book quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge

The Irish Times view on literature in a time of crisis: If we winter this one out...

At this time of social isolation, books offer not just consolation but a portal to the most profound human connection

Cry of the banned cheese – Frank McNally on Stilton’s lost cause

Bafta awards: Two Irish stars lose out to Renée Zellweger for best actress

Saoirse Ronan in running for Little Women, while Jessie Buckley competed for Wild Rose

FC Cologne pull out of deal to run football academy in China

‘We cannot support such a brutal and totalitarian dictatorship’

Fintan O’Toole conferred with honorary degree by Trinity College

Former tánaiste Mary Harney and Joan Freeman among other recipients

Is your ‘true self’ a kind of ghost?

Unthinkable: One of philosophy’s great debates may be down to a misunderstanding

Judge excoriates State’s bid to avoid full legal costs in deportation case

Application only served to add a day’s worth of costs to bill – Justice Richard Humphreys

How to turn climate-change denial into acceptance and action

Denial makes us feel better in the short term but is not the way to deal with problems

Decay of English language makes it perfect for lying

Political rhetoric of our time is conditioned by insult and hardly concealed violence

Degrowth fetishists, just be honest: you would make people poorer to fight climate change

It is a fact that if people do less and use less, then GDP will fall

Of dogs and dogma – Frank McNally on Orwell, Marx and history repeating itself

Marx repeated something his friend Friedrich Engels had just written about Hegel

Post-Brexit identity for UK cannot be forged by London policy groups

Cultural and national fault lines riddled the constituent nations long before Leave vote

Apple Watch: the not-quite-Orwellian data monitoring tool

Technology companies must ensure that personal data monitoring doesn’t become mass surveillance

Fintan O’Toole: Eoin Morgan showed England its better self

The Irish captain of England's triumphant cricket team knocked xenophobia for six

Troubles-based books Milkman and Say Nothing win Orwell prizes

Anna Burns’s novel and Patrick Radden Keefe’s study of Jean McConville’s murder honoured

Breda O'Brien: The pain of the Leaving Cert should be spread out over two years

As a teacher, I have always known how tough the exams are. Reform is overdue

Haloed Fellow Well Met – Frank McNally on GK Chesterton’s claims to sainthood

An Irishman’s Diary on the English novelist who was a ‘friendly enemy’ to Shaw

Stop All the Clocks – Frank McNally on the influence of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, on 1984

Big Brother’s Long Shadow – Frank McNally on Orwell’s 1984 at 70

Orwell's 1947 essay 'Towards European Unity' is still relevant today

Down the Junction – Frank McNally on three very contrasting figures from the same corner of South Tipperary

‘Property investment shouldn’t be solely focused on personal profit’

Every owner of property has a duty to raise it to its full potential, as much as funds allow

Fintan O’Toole: The English love of eccentricity has turned sour

Brexit has given us a new species and a strange, new phenomenon – the harmful eccentric

Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age

Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature

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