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Seán Lemass: The right way to commemorate him is to rename Dublin Airport “Seán Lemass Airport” or “Lemass Airport”.
Soaring ambition – Mary O’Rourke on a way to commemorate Seán Lemass

May 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Seán Lemass. There has been a lot of activity, both in writing and in statements, about the event(...)

President Michael D. Higgins speaks to interview John Bowman during an event to makr 250 years of the College Historical Society of Trinity College Dublin, more commonly known as The Hist. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times.
Universities do not exist ‘to produce students who are useful’, President says

President Michael D. Higgins has warned that the capacity of universities to provide a “moral space” for discussion is being eroded at a time of growi(...)

Stephen Teap, Cork Person of the Year 2019, with award. Also in picture, from left, Tim Lucey CEO Cork County Council, Ann Doherty, CEO Cork City Council and Tom Fitzpatrick, editor Irish Examiner. Photograph: Martin Collins
Cervical campaigner Stephen Teap wins Cork Person of the Year Award

Cervical smear test campaigner Stephen Teap has won Cork Person of the Year for 2019 and he dedicated the award to his late wife, Irene Teap and all t(...)

A book of condolence was opened for broadcaster Gay Byrne at the Mansion House, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times.
Funeral Mass for Gay Byrne in Pro-Cathedral

The funeral Mass of broadcaster Gay Byrne will take place on Friday in St Mary’s Pro Cathedral in Dublin. MrByrne died on Monday after a long illness(...)

Sinead McSweeney and her son Séamus follow the remains of husband and father Noel Whelan at the Church of the Holy Name in Ranelagh. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Noel Whelan ‘was a force in the world who never wasted a day,’ funeral Mass hears

Political commentator and barrister Noel Whelan was a “force in the world” who “never wasted a day”, his funeral Mass has heard. Sinéad McSweeney des(...)

A carved stone head at what is now Pearse Street Garda station, formerly the Great Brunswick Street DMP barracks. Photograph: Frank Miller
A night on the files – Michael Collins’s undercover intelligence mission of April 1919

As depicted in the film Michael Collins, the chief protagonist cycles into Dublin Castle, up the short steep hill at City Hall and through the arched (...)

Donal Ó Drisceoil: ‘It’s very effective, making really good use of maps and graphics while it also has a good mix of new voices from the Atlas of the Irish Revolution’
New Irish revolution documentary steers away from ‘great man’ approach

A new documentary series The Irish Revolution successfully captures the approach taken in the award winning book Atlas of the Irish Revolution on whic(...)

Mary Swanzy got to know the work of Picasso from viewing his paintings at soirees organised by Gertrude Stein in Paris.
Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
  • Abroad
  • January 9, 2019, 10:00

“To be an artist… you have to be very severe with your amount of energy… To have an overriding hobby, that’s the secret. Mine was an overriding hobby,(...)

Patrick Mayhew. Photograph: Frank Miller
Mayhew was criticised by both sides over shoot-to-kill decision

Among the most controversial politicians of 1988 was then British attorney general Patrick Mayhew. On January 20th that year, Irish diplomat Richard R(...)

Unionist leaders the Rev Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux. They were described respectively as a “bigot” and “inconsiderable” by the Conservative Party’s Lord Hailsham. Photograph: Peter Thursfield
John Bowman: How Irish diplomats ‘dined for Ireland’

During the negotiations which led to the historic Anglo-Irish Agreement signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher at Hillsborough in November (...)

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