Winston Churchill
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Johnson plays down Biden’s removal of Churchill bust
- US
- January 22, 2021, 15:34
Boris Johnson played down Joe Biden’s decision to remove a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office as he seeks to build a relationship with the(...)

The Irishman with big hopes making tiny houses in Berlin
- Abroad
- January 21, 2021, 06:00
Owen McCann, who is originally from Dublin, has lived in Berlin for more than 10 years with his wife, Silvia, and their daughters, Luna and Alana Mar.(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Nicola Sturgeon’s staunch ally in her push for independence – Boris Johnson
- Opinion
- January 16, 2021, 06:00
This article relates to the upcoming Irish Times Winter Nights festival. More details at the bottom of this page. For full line-up and tickets go to&n(...)

Montgomery and the War of Independence – ‘I regarded all civilians as Shinners’
- Opinion
- January 10, 2021, 15:01
In January 1921, an ambitious British army officer arrived in Cork with a view to subduing a place that had become the crucible of the War of Independ(...)

Real-life Peaky Blinders: How the IRA sourced guns from the ‘Birmingham mob’
- Heritage
- January 8, 2021, 06:00
Britain at the end of the first World War was a country in a state of foment, and its government led by David Lloyd George lived in terror of a commun(...)

Winston Churchill name-checked in Belfast as clock ticks towards Brexit
- Irish News
- December 30, 2020, 18:01
The prospect of Northern Ireland, along with Britain, formally exiting the European Union around the bewitching hour on New Year’s Eve was a cause for(...)

Turning heads and making headlines – Frank McNally on the extraordinary life of sculptor Clare Sheridan
- Opinion
- November 24, 2020, 19:30
Insofar as Clare Sheridan was Irish, as she always claimed, it was in part thanks to her lack of formal education. Born in London in 1885, she spent c(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can be the middle island between the EU and Biden’s US
- Opinion
- November 21, 2020, 06:00
Winston Churchill famously claimed in 1922 that, as the floodwaters of the first World War began to recede, “the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyro(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Collapse of Vote Leave gang comes too late to save Brexit-addled Britain
- Opinion
- November 17, 2020, 01:00
The ancient Greeks knew that the most tragic phrase in any language is: too late. The tyrant Creon, for example, realises at last that he has made a t(...)

The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challenge
- Culture
- November 14, 2020, 05:00
In one respect at least, Margaret Thatcher has caught up with her political hero. Like Winston Churchill (always “Winston” to the eventual Baroness), (...)