Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing

The Irish Times political team discuss the sacking of Barry Cowen, at an Inside Politics event

The author appeared at The Irish Times Summer Nights Festival on Wednesday evening

McWilliams and Dermot Bannon were the first guests at the Irish Times Summer Nights Festival

The unfinished business of slavery, emancipation and Civil War is still playing itself out

Coveney wants to stay on in foreign affairs brief after ‘all-consuming’ work on Brexit

Samantha Power tells Hay festival that former US administration underestimated how ‘ripped off’ Americans felt

Emergence of conspiracy theory allows president rewrite history of the Russia investigation

For Women’s Christmas, The Women’s Podcast hears about some light-bulb moments

Radio review: RTÉ’s preview of 2020 turns unexpectedly sombre, as Second Captains get more sport from a determined diplomat

Radio review: Her interview with minister Eoghan Murphy is more reconciliation than rematch

Europe Letter: Sanitised narrative of Armenia informs Ankara’s targeting of Kurds

As Barack Obama’s choice as next US ambassador to the UN, Irish-born Samantha Power faces many challenges

Obama’s UN ambassador on her traumatic Irish childhood, Trump and ‘that’ interview

Diplomat was last secretary general to seem like a central player in international drama

Hague Letter: US, Britain and France failed to support UN peacekeepers by air

Dalkey native Gail Slater to advise US president on technology and cybersecurity

Obama gave the filmmakers ‘unprecedented’ access. They made a weak documentary

Delegation to United Nations indicates contentious decision made by President Trump

Women’s Podcast: Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations speaks to Kathy Sheridan

The Irish born academic and former US ambassador to the UN on how she became one of the most powerful women in American foreign affairs, her thoughts on the current president and how her roots are firmly in Ireland

Former ambassador to UN says she is fearful of Trump’s response to terror attack on US

Samantha Power says pardon of controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio affirms right wing’s views

First day in ‘actual Mount Anville’, but the last thing Honor needs is a chaperone

At the core of The Promise is the first World War genocide of the Kardashians’ fellow Armenians, a cause close to the family's heart

US ambassador is in the spotlight but she has not always seen eye to eye with her boss

Opposition grows to US ban on nationals from predominantly Muslim countries

Planned Parenthood centenary a timely reminder that diaspora has wider focus

Security council demands all building in occupied territories halted after US refuses to veto

Council overcomes long-held divisions to adopt resolution to oversee safety of civilians

UN Security Council agrees resolution for officials to monitor evacuations in Syrian city

Villagers cheering a US convoy in Cameroon watched in horror as a child was struck and killed

Thousands of cold, scared and injured people are still in east Aleppo waiting to leave

UN official says offensive by Assad forces ‘a complete meltdown of humanity’

South Carolina governor, a former critic of president-elect, becomes UN ambassador

More air strikes reported in Syrian army offensive as Russia ignores Western pleas

Azerbaijan government responds to global condemnation of its detention of journalists, rights activists and political opponents

US Ambassador to UN was visiting to showcase efforts to protect West African women

Anti-Assad opposition and their allies denounce elections as a sham

Hopes for a free and democratic Arab world have drowned in the blood of 470,000 dead Syrians