Plaque unveiled at Sandymount home of Patrick Pearse’s family

One of 1916 Rising’s key leaders, Pearse lived in house during ‘formative’ years after 1900

Easter Rising, Curtain Falling – Frank McNally on the 1916 play still awaiting its Abbey premiere

An Irishman’s Diary

Priest says he ‘got a bit of a thrill’ when lorry reversed through gates of Russian embassy

Reverend John Walsh said he ‘would not have minded’ being in the cab of the lorry

Snámhaí or gormaire? The best Irish insults and nasty words

It is as slanderous, scabrous and muck-mouthed a language as any you’ll find

Mixed views over Mick Wallace voting against EU condemnation of invasion

‘He should have voted in favour. One child being murdered is one too many’

Archive covers more than 100 years of the Irish language movement

Exchange of letters among items in new Conradh na Gaeilge archive at NUI Galway

Brendan Kennelly obituary: Gifted poet, academic and storyteller

A writer who grew up in a pub, Kennelly learned how to tell a story and hold an audience

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?

Playwright of the Western World – Frank McNally on 150 years of JM Synge

An Irishman’s Diary

Irish actors and writers sign petition against sale of historic Fifth Avenue building

American Irish Historical Society represents ‘struggles and success of Irish ancestors’

Painting of famous 1916 Rising photograph to hang in the Seanad

Artist Sinead Guckian reverses the Pearse surrender photograph to reveal the woman

The three funerals of Terence MacSwiney

The events, each with thousands of mourners, were key moments in the battle for independence

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

Controversial Glasnevin memorial wall vandalised again

Attackers use sledgehammers and paint to deface monument