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Diarmaid Ferriter: North or South, no line can be drawn under the Troubles

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...

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Dublin Marathon runners deserve more than a medal inscribed with a facile, syrupy misquotation

In July 2010, Dublin was designated a Unesco city of literature. It was a fitting tribute, suggested this newspaper’s literary correspondent at the...

14.09.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Problems in Irish education go far beyond Leaving Cert grade inflation

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...

08.09.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Traditional pub culture is raising a parting glass

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...

01.09.2023 30

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Youghal tragedies a reminder of our fraught and complex relationship with the sea

Dublin swimmers are well used to red flags. A regular indicator of our waste disposal shortcomings is that the water treatment system struggles to...

25.08.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Obvious solution to resented ‘voluntary’ school contributions

School principal “burnout” in Ireland has long been a staple of the education pages, the testimony of the principals themselves and the complaints...

18.08.2023 6

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland’s decade of commemoration was influenced by today’s prejudices

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...

11.08.2023 10

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There was no public inquiry into the second biggest loss of life here during the second World War

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...

07.07.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Culture of ‘open secrets and secret secrets’ has always surrounded RTÉ pay

Historically, there has been little secrecy about the overall state of RTÉ’s finances. The headlines concerning the broadcaster’s financial...

30.06.2023 8

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Occasional tension is the price of an assertive presidency

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...

23.06.2023 8

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Women of Honour group wants a tribunal, but what lies ahead could be interminable

“Nothing about us, without us.” That was the powerful motto of former inmates of the Mother and Baby homes as they sought accountability,...

16.06.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Memories of the financial crisis risk being obliterated by the force of politics

In April 1997, then minister for finance Ruairi Quinn wrote to taoiseach John Bruton expressing concern that “we are drifting into a situation in...

09.06.2023 9

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Population milestones have always been emotive. The challenge is different now

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...

02.06.2023 7

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Diarmaid Ferriter: We still do not know how many lives were lost in Civil War

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...

26.05.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: The terrible, aching loneliness and loss of the migrant

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...

19.05.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish neutrality isn’t as plain as we have been led to believe

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...

12.05.2023 40

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Notion that Trevelyan family should throw us a few quid is a farce

The suggestion by Laura Trevelyan, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Trevelyan, assistant secretary at the British Treasury from 1840-59,...

05.05.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: North still not the shared society Belfast Agreement promised

State documents released in London, Belfast and Dublin in recent years offer revealing insights into the mentalities and methods that went in to the...

07.04.2023 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Kerry recovered from the carnage of the Civil War but never forgot

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...

24.02.2023 10

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