Consumers remain tentative about spending, PwC survey finds
Some 60% of Irish consumers have increased their focus on savings and prices
Bertie Ahern: Dev was wrong not to lead the 1921 Treaty talks
The British team was skilled. It was not smart politics to leave our leading statesman at home
Shed Distillery reports record revenues, warns of Covid impact
Company behind Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, sold over 1 million bottles last year
God, make way for Gaia: A deity even atheists can believe in
Unthinkable: Is nature’s mother god sending us a message with Covid-19?
How was the Irish Border drawn in the first place?
Three civil servants produced different options for temporary ‘exclusion zone’ in 1914
Most family-owned businesses lack a succession plan for next generation
PwC report shows 86% of Irish family businesses expect to grow over the next two years
Irish businesses not so good at keeping it in the family
Cantillon: PwC report shows just 18% of Irish family firms have a formal succession plan
The history of the Irish Border: From Plantation to Brexit
With the threat of a hard border looming, we look at how Northern Ireland came to this
War of Independence seen as Catholic war on Protestants
Rite & Reason: Nationalist Ireland almost universally condemned the Soloheadbeg killings as murder
Diarmaid Ferriter: Roots of Dáil’s ideological sameness run deep
The first Dáil and its successors remained wedded to a conservative model of politics
Gaelic Sunday: When the GAA took on the British empire
It’s 100 years since one of the most unified acts of defiance in the face of British rule
Priced out of Portobello? Try The Liberties
The historic Dublin area of The Liberties is experiencing a long overdue renaissance
Is there a right to life? (You mightn’t like the answer)
Unthinkable: There’s ‘a systematic ambiguity’ at the heart of human rights, TCD professor John Dillon says
The North and 1918
Political events set both Northern nationalists and unionists on a trajectory that was to last for many years to come
‘Timidly opening the doors’ : Winning the vote for women in 1918
The suffrage movement faced its strongest opposition in the Irish Parliamentary Party
The day the Home Rule movement died
A forgotten casualty of Germany’s ‘March Offensive’ was the Irish Parliamentary Party
Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis
For the newly-galvanised party, 1918 was characterised by protest, piety, propaganda, prison and ultimately political triumph
Ahern says verdict of history on him will ‘depend on who writes it’
Centenary of Irish Convention conference addressed by two former taoisigh
All your previews for a bumper Gaelic games weekend
The meeting of Galway and Mayo tops the bill on Sunday with one other semi-final
One-in-four Irish people shop online weekly, report reveals
Consumers here shop with Amazon ahead of offline stores and other shopping websites
PwC backs app launch to fight “food fraud”
Mislabelling and counterfeit products cost industry an estimated €40 billion a year
John Bruton: we should commemorate peace over violence
How we commemorate the past should reflect our aspirations for the future
Rite & Reason: Capuchins still bearing witness on 400 years of Irish history
Priests attended at executions of 1916 leaders from the beginning on May 3rd
John Bruton: Home rule could have led peacefully to independence
There is much we could learn from considering different historical choices
Bruton wrong to claim Ireland could win independence by peaceful means alone
History shows hopes of Home Rule settlement were baseless
John Bruton says 1916 was ‘recipe for endless conflict’
Schoolchildren should also learn of Redmond and Dillon, former taoiseach says
Caherlistrane, Co Galway: why all things lofty reside in the local
Writing a book about my homeplace and its abundant creativity drew on long-hoarded flotsam and jetsam about the parish, as well as actor Eilish O’Carroll, singer Seán Keane and his family, and US actor Vivian Nesbitt
The Thomas Clarke papers: An impish wit who fretted about money
Thomas J Clarke, whose name appeared first among those of the signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, was an unbending Fenian – and a mordant, impish wit
The James Connolly papers: ‘Wasn’t it a full life? Isn’t this a good end?
‘Well, Lillie, hasn’t it been a full life and isn’t this a good end?’ the signatory to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic told his wife just before he was executed, in 1916
John Redmond caught in the middle during first World War
The Irish nationalist leader fought for Irish interests while also appeasing British leader Asquith
Council worker spared jail over anti-Semitic emails to Shatter
Dublin man John Dillon sentenced to 100 hours of community service for harassment
John Redmond’s finest hour
In March 1912 more than 100,000 people gathered on O’Connell Street in Dublin to hear the MP herald London’s introduction of a new Home Rule Bill
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