Garret Fitzgerald

This twangs the memory chords, bringing it all back. There’s Rashers and Toucher in Strumpet City; Jimmy O’Dea with Maureen Potter; Charles Haughey an(...)

The family of the only Irish soldier to be killed during the Troubles has called for an end to the “orchestrated nationwide campaign of misinformation(...)

I always knew there were at least two Irelands, that our culture had an extreme capacity for mental compartmentalisation. Ireland was never just “here(...)

The first volume of Irish women’s speeches showcases how women’s speeches Inspired and drove change in Ireland  There has long be(...)

Máire Mhac an tSaoi Born: April 4th, 1922 Died: October 16th, 2021 Máire Mhac an tSaoi, who has died aged 99, was one of Ireland’s foremost Irish lan(...)

Showman and dealmaker defied detractors when he brokered peace in North It was a Sunday sometime in the late 1960s. My father and I were trundli(...)

When Mary Flaherty and her late husband, Alexis FitzGerald jnr, stood on the path at the front of Coliemore Apartments overlooking Dalkey Island and h(...)

British diplomat David Goodall, who died five years ago this weekend, was a key figure in the negotiations that led to the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement.(...)

As we mark the 10th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s visit tomorrow I recall two other events that happened that same day: Garret FitzGerald died; and(...)

Out walking in Kilmainham on Tuesday – near the old gaol, ominously – I learned the news that I was to be shot at dawn. Well okay, not dawn, exactly. (...)