Concrete is at the centre of the Irish flooding dilemma, but it is not the solution either. We need to look to nature

Instead of censorship, we have an abundance of distortion, lies and denial, as history, or what purports to be history, is weaponised

This is not the first time a powerful force has suggested Greenlanders are ill-suited to controlling their own lives

Responsibilities were presumed to include reviving Irish, selling everything ‘from sausages to sweep tickets’, and providing a living for writers and musicians

Opening of this material will facilitate much research, and for many the chance to place our own family story in context

Management of literary estates following an author’s death raises tricky ethical questions

St Mary’s has been elevated to a cathedral at time when Dublin’s Catholic Archdiocese faces financial meltdown

The British leader pledged ‘peace in our time’ after appeasing a tyrant – will history repeat itself?

Negotiations led to deep feelings of betrayal on the part of nationalists in Northern Ireland with enduring implications

Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices

Catholic anti-divorce crusaders deliberately made outrageous analogies and used modern tactics, too

Authenticity matters more, and charisma cannot be contrived

Diarmaid Ferriter reviews The Taoiseach: A Century of Political Leadership, a collection of essays on the State’s 16 political ‘captains’

The Anglo-Irish Agreement, signed 40 years ago this week, didn’t bring the reassurance that was hoped for, but ultimately was a significant milestone

At the time of her death, more than 16,000 people were in emergency accommodation across the country

Spoiled votes and lack of candidates has renewed focus on the presidential nomination process

For every €1 invested in the pilot scheme, €1.39 is generated

We need clarity about what constitutes a ‘special difficulty’ in relation to the administration of elections

Brian Lenihan debacle of 35 years ago spelled the beginning of the end for Haughey

On his secret talks with Sinn Féin in the late 1980s, he said: “I was given the instruction just to listen but I’m afraid I did a great deal more than that”