Book review: David Fitzpatrick combines rigorous analysis with human experiences

Diarmaid Ferriter: Fine Gael needs to back up its rhetoric on the North

Rite & Reason: Nationalist Ireland almost universally condemned the Soloheadbeg killings as murder

An Irishman’s Diary

Cosgrave and de Valera deserve credit for preserving democracy in the new State

The old Sinn Féin had collected ‘all sorts of queer cranks’ with ‘people making speeches in favour of vegetarianism and the single tax’

Deevy fell out of favour with Abbey management after writing six plays in the 1930s

The British establishment lacked consistency while the Free State washed its hands

The All-Ireland champions headed to Cobh to sail across the Atlantic with great fanfare

The challenge is to provide a contemporary response to the points addressed by Blythe in 1927 and Kelly in the 1970s

Seán O’Casey’s play and its staging have always been cultural and political lightning rods

The newly digitised minute books of the Abbey Theatre’s board meetings during its early decades reveal a host of remarkable struggles, from attempted censorship by Dublin Corporation to artistic disputes at the top of the theatre

Despite the rhetoric, there is a deep ambivalence about partition throughout Ireland

Review: ‘Designing Ireland’, ‘The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds’, ‘Simply Nigella’

Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) obsessively monitored future rebels

Absence of all-party agreement a deterrent to setting up national awards scheme – Kenny

Use of violence in Rising did not meet a criterion for just war, says former taoiseach

A fresh insight into Mr Blythe’s economic stewardship has been highlighted by the discovery of a rare copy of Dracula “as Gaeilge”

Ronnie Masterson: April 4th, 1926 - February 10th, 2014

Opinion: Popularity of Noonan out of line with fate of previous finance ministers who introduced harsh budgets