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Diarmaid FerriterThe Irish Times |
As prime minister of Northern Ireland a century ago, James Craig made effective use of a pithy slogan to encapsulate the unionist mission of 1925:...
Maud Gonne MacBride, the committed republican, agitator and campaigner, was particularly disturbed by the plight of the poor during the difficult...
A measure of the bleakness of the current international situation regarding human rights is that the messages enunciated by Seán MacBride on being...
There is a debate going on in my house about the environmental ethics of a fake versus a real Christmas tree. Multiple websites have been consulted...
The slogan “Put them out” gained considerable momentum in early 1948 after 16 years of Fianna Fáil in power. As historian John A Murphy put it,...
The general election campaign demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to match the exceptional endurance of our democratic culture with maturity...
One option for those seeking refuge from the general election campaign was the cinema for the film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella Small...
The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States in November 2008 was not only notable for the historic breakthrough it represented...
When civil servants in the Anglo-Irish division of the Department of Foreign Affairs were preparing taoiseach Bertie Ahern for a meeting with...
Some 100 years ago this month the Irish Free State’s minister for justice, Kevin O’Higgins, addressed the Irish Society at Oxford University....
In January 2020, Joe Biden, then seeking the Democratic nomination for the US presidency, dismissed a request from BBC correspondent Nick Bryant in...
In June 1954, TK Whitaker, then assistant secretary at the Department of Finance, wrote a note to outgoing Minister for Finance Seán MacEntee:...
In 2014 Donald Trump was welcomed to Ireland with a red carpet at Shannon Airport. What had the charlatan, blowhard clown done to merit such a...
Nell McCafferty was part of a remarkable generation of women journalists who felt compelled to upend expectations. The changing political...
Oh, how we laughed in the summer of 1992. The T-shirt vendors made hay while the Bishop Eamonn Casey revelations shone. “Wear a condom just in...