Is it time to acknowledge the legislative achievements of Charles Haughey?
Rite & Reason: He cured a social ill with the Succession Act, which stopped men from cutting their wives out of their will
John A Costello
Nobody should be mocked or lampooned for decrying the consequences of the new arms race
The Irish approach to foreign policy should not be to exaggerate our purity or indulge dictators, but neither should we parrot criticisms of our neutrality from miliary aligned states
Writer Maggie Armstrong: ‘I wanted to be a wastrel. I had no ambitions ever, for anything. Is that a symptom of the age?’
Maggie Armstrong, a former journalist, was always a ‘bit envious’ of the people she interviewed. She reflects on her decision to take her writing seriously
‘State builder’ John A Costello remembered at graveside
Frances Fitzgerald delivers address 126 years after birth of former taoiseach
Paul Henry landscape with a political pedigree
‘A Connemara Village’ by Paul Henry, valued at up to €100,000, sold for £85 in the 1930s
Rite & Reason: The Republic is now a warm place for Protestants
Senior politicians kowtowing to the Catholic hierarchy today ‘utterly unthinkable’
Jackie Kennedy and the Costello family
Former first lady developed a strong bond with taoiseach and his family
Jackie Kennedy correspondence with Costello reveals high value on privacy
Former taoiseach’s chivalry ‘so beautiful’, writes Kennedy
Fr Joseph Leonard’s importance to Kennedys recalled by Liam Cosgrave
Former taoiseach was good friend of priest in his later years
Paintings of taoisigh stick to the middle of the road
Some of our best artists have created uninspiring portraits of former leaders
Government has no interest in real political reform
Column: Constitutional change just another empty election promise
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