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In 2017, poet and writer Kapka Kassabova published a moving account of the impact of the border zone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece under the...
In July 2010, Dublin was designated a Unesco city of literature. It was a fitting tribute, suggested this newspaper’s literary correspondent at the...
There are many ingredients boiling in the pot of Irish higher education and the broth looks far from satisfying. As students begin or return to...
Donegal councillor Frank McBrearty, whose father Frank owned The Parting Glass bar in Raphoe, this week lamented the demise of the Irish pub. The idea...
Dublin swimmers are well used to red flags. A regular indicator of our waste disposal shortcomings is that the water treatment system struggles to...
School principal “burnout” in Ireland has long been a staple of the education pages, the testimony of the principals themselves and the complaints...
One of the questions posed at this summer’s Galway International Arts Festival was what have we learned from our long decade of commemoration? It is...
We have a cruel hierarchy of remembrance. This will be offset somewhat next week at the Galway Film Fleadh with the screening of a documentary on the...
Historically, there has been little secrecy about the overall state of RTÉ’s finances. The headlines concerning the broadcaster’s financial...
Future historians of the presidency will see this week as a significant one in the history of the office. In 2012, after a year in office, President...
“Nothing about us, without us.” That was the powerful motto of former inmates of the Mother and Baby homes as they sought accountability,...
In April 1997, then minister for finance Ruairi Quinn wrote to taoiseach John Bruton expressing concern that “we are drifting into a situation in...
Sixty years ago this month, US president John F Kennedy arrived in Ireland for an emotional homecoming, framed around the narrative of the return of a...
To mark the centenary of the end of the Civil War there will be a formal “ceremony of reconciliation and remembrance of all those who lost their...
The Famine in Ireland in the 1840s devastated Co Clare. Local historian Ciarán Ó Murchadha’s history of the calamity in that county lays bare the...
Speaking at the commencement of the Dáil debates on the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 14 December 1921, Sinn Féin’s Arthur Griffith, who had led the Irish...
The suggestion by Laura Trevelyan, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Trevelyan, assistant secretary at the British Treasury from 1840-59,...
State documents released in London, Belfast and Dublin in recent years offer revealing insights into the mentalities and methods that went in to the...
This weekend in Tralee, a national Civil War conference, part of the State’s Decades of Centenaries Programme for 2023, will assess the conflict’s...