Contesting the silence: Irish language writers on the Civil War

Notable exceptions were made to widespread desire to forget conflict

Strong language – John Horgan on an Irish language controversy

An Irishman’s Diary

Tibb’s the Season – Frank McNally on the patron saint of things that never happen

An Irishman’s Diary

Pension pathway fraught with political risk

Government must address competing priorities on hot potato of old-age payment

Mary MacSwiney: The mourning sister who turned to politics

An uncompromising stance on the Treaty negotiations was indelibly formed by the experience of watching her brother, Terence MacSwiney, die on hunger strike

Rise of Ireland’s far right relies on abandoned social conservatives

Nativist politics have not played a big role in recent Irish elections. Might that change?

Patriot Games – Frank McNally on political art theft, football as opera, and Lenin’s Irish accent

An Irishman’s Diary

Charles Townshend: Sinn Féin negotiated treaty that cut Ireland in two

100 years ago: How the Irish Border went from idea stage to fixture

Teresa Deevy and the secrets of the green suitcase

Best known for her productions at the Abbey, the Waterford playwright also wrote for radio, and there’s a mystery surrounding the origins of unpublished work under a pseudonym

The best medicine – Brian Maye on a lighter side to Arthur Griffith

An Irishman’s Diary

Without the Blueshirts, there would have been no Fine Gael

Claiming continuity with Michael Collins helps Fine Gael forget its troubling origins

A costly shilling – Ernest Blythe and the old-age pension

An Irishwoman’s Diary

A Prussian solution to an Irish problem – An Irishman’s Diary on Prince Joachim and the 1916 Rising

Historic coalition agreement ends almost a century of Civil War politics

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were forged out of the bitterness of an ancient quarrel