Tragically, we nearly made it through the decade of centenaries

Newton Emerson: Higgins turned highbrow rhetoric into critique and controversy

Leo Varadkar: The 1921 Treaty shaped Irish politics for a century

We have been dealing with the consequences of partition ever since

Macron draws on ‘unique bond’ to assist reform of Beirut

Century after France created Lebanon, president intervention appears to bypass EU

Brussels summit preview, Apple tax case fallout and the State’s responsibility to pubs

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Ireland faces a strategic decision on tax in the wake of Apple victory

John FitzGerald: Supporting OECD on taxing digital giants could be a small price to pay

‘It’s a matter of fairness’: squeezing more tax from multinationals

Governments will need to start thinking about who will pay for their ballooning deficits

Ruth Negga: ‘People who say they don’t consider skin colour... are you f**king blind?’

Black Irish Lives: The actor on growing up in Ireland, the film industry, and Black Lives Matter

Dev among the angels – Frank McNally on an unusual memorial in an Ethiopian church

Tragedy of diplomacy and international politics

Greece Letter: Near-desperate calls from Athens for solidarity and support cut little ice

Where to now after the debacle over the RIC/DMP commemoration?

Row does not auger well for the years and the many other commemorations ahead

How did plans to remember the RIC and DMP become so controversial?

Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan hoped event would rehabilitate forces’ reputation

Pioneering spirit – An Irishman’s Diary on feminist and trade unionist Louie Bennett

Cork to be central to plans to mark the War of Independence in 2020

City’s Lord Mayor says events of 1920 will be marked with a year-long programme

A Twentieth-Century Crusade review: Eye-opening look at the Catholic Church and fascism

Giuliana Chamedes’s new book is revelatory but leaves some key questions unanswered