‘I was so proud to be Navajo and so proud to be Irish’
Doreen McPaul, Navajo Nation attorney general, receives Irish diaspora president’s award
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
Citizens of Boomtown: ‘Bob Geldof drove me out of my f***ing mind’
Review: Billy McGrath’s Boomtown Rats rockumentary rattles along furiously and with a dangerous gleam in its eyes
Black and Tans: ‘Half-drunk, whole-mad’ and one-fifth Irish
Diarmaid Ferriter: The terrorising Black and Tans had no monopoly on brutality in 1920
Irish Protestants live longer than Catholics, new research shows
CSO data supports views of historians that Protestants benefit from ‘thriftier’ lifestyles
Irish Pages: words for a time when hope and history no longer rhyme
The current edition of Northern Ireland’s literary journal marks 20 years of the Belfast Agreement – and the overriding mood is one of disillusionment and despair
The disappearance of the Protestant accent from Ireland
Southern Irish Protestantism remained vibrant and combative even as it lost its accent
How was the Irish Border drawn in the first place?
Three civil servants produced different options for temporary ‘exclusion zone’ in 1914
Sending Up The Republic – Frank McNally on a forgotten satirist of Irish independence, Eimar O’Duffy
An Irishman’s Diary
John Banville among authors to sign letter against ‘forced resignation’ of editor over #MeToo essay
John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Roy Foster among over 100 writers to express dismay over departure of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma
Big birds and Australian acrobats in store for Galway Arts Festival
Eyre Square to be transformed into a ‘festival garden’ with series of events lined up for city
The gay patriots who helped found the Irish State
Roger Casement likely to be among those Leo Varadkar was paying homage to in Dáil
Argos goes green . . . but for a house in the garden, try a big red affair
Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option
Citizen Lane: Art and the creation of the Irish nation
Hugh Lane’s contribution to cultural history is the focus of Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s new film
WB Yeats ‘showed Ireland wasn’t just about the Famine’
DVD of Bob Geldof’s documentary on poet has been released
Roy Foster honoured by National Library of Ireland for his life’s work
Historian praised for ‘almost single-handedly creating the idea of Irish history in Britain’
The Nuncio and the Writer: A heart in Kilkenny, a mind on Croatia
Johnny Gogan’s biography of Hubert Butler finds this Irish George Orwell honoured by his intellectual inheritors
Forget the Wild Atlantic Way: here are the Northern Literary Lands
Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge
Cork history festival unearths informers, murderers and looters
The West Cork History Festival takes place on the grounds of Lissard Estate and will feature a range speakers stirring up ideas and examining old animosities
‘House of Cards’ author to address Cork history festival
Willingness of Michael Dobbs to speak indicates potential of new event, says organiser
Professor Ronan Fanning: A giant of Irish historiography
Ted Smyth reflects on the incisive intellect and modern mind that was Prof Fanning
Taoiseach admits the State failed to give arts attention it deserved
Enda Kenny says €48m cost of Easter Rising commemorations was money well spent
The centenary conversations: Ireland 100 years ago and today
Contributors to a conference on Irish identity and sovereignty discuss these concepts
Details of Easter Rising national conference revealed
NUI Galway summit is one of the last setpiece events of the centenary commemorations
Roy Foster: ‘The Irish argue about history all the time’
Roy Foster, who is retiring after 25 years as Carroll professor of Irish history at Oxford, says that Irish people are keen on the past but often have a skewed view of it
Post-Brexit poll racism not extending to Irish in Britain
Irish Embassy in London yet to receive any complaints of harassment of Irish nationals
Roy Foster: Britain consigned to margins by the ‘stupid party’
Bad leadership and anti-intellectualism are to blame for Leave victory
David Norris calls Boris Johnson a ‘liar’ in Seanad Brexit debate
Ivana Bacik ‘dismayed’ by Northern Secretary Theresa Villiers’s leave stance
Brexit vote: Johnson and Farage show ‘worst of Britain’
Leaving EU will not solve problems of disenfranchised, says Oxford historian Roy Foster
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