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Anne Harris: Fatherhood could be the big winner from lockdown

Anne Harris: Fatherhood could be the big winner from lockdown

For the last 66 days many men have had, perhaps for the first time, a real chance to reconcile work and family life

Wed Jun 03 2020 - 01:02
When did Johnson become so dependent on Cummings? Was he always this weak?

When did Johnson become so dependent on Cummings? Was he always this weak?

Anne Harris: Covid-19 seems to have robbed the British prime minister of his confidence

Wed May 27 2020 - 01:58
Anne Harris: Life imitates art in my cocoon

Anne Harris: Life imitates art in my cocoon

I have been turned into a character from an absurd Beckett play

Mon Apr 06 2020 - 08:57
Anne Harris: If we want to hold on in the crisis we must let go

Anne Harris: If we want to hold on in the crisis we must let go

Covid-19 pandemic could be the trigger for us to build a better world

Mon Mar 16 2020 - 01:31
Anne Harris: Sinn Féin has a real problem with contrition

Anne Harris: Sinn Féin has a real problem with contrition

It is as if they have found they can message everything away, that they are untouchable

Thu Feb 27 2020 - 12:16
Mary Lou McDonald is caught between the old and the new

Mary Lou McDonald is caught between the old and the new

She must now reconcile Sinn Féin’s new support with its traditional republican base

Tue Feb 11 2020 - 00:51
Why our love for Leo is withering on the vine

Why our love for Leo is withering on the vine

Glamour in a public figure is a double-edged sword, and when it becomes devalued retribution is swift

Mon Jan 27 2020 - 01:30
Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill: Women’s stories at the heart of the #MeToo movement

Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill: Women’s stories at the heart of the #MeToo movement

Review: Ronan Farrow on Harvey Weinstein and the ways celebrity predators are protected

Sat Nov 02 2019 - 06:00
Mediahuis is in for a shock at Independent News & Media

Mediahuis is in for a shock at Independent News & Media

Problems include lack of morale and leadership and trouble with digital programme

Wed May 01 2019 - 01:12
This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite review

This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite review

This hopeful, lyrical manifesto of age non-conformism is compelling and debunks myths

Sat Mar 09 2019 - 06:00
Mary Lou has more in common with Meghan Markle than she knows

Mary Lou has more in common with Meghan Markle than she knows

Meghan will have familiar core feminism ballast while Mary Lou might face a choice

Fri Jan 04 2019 - 16:03
The Sunday Papers: History of a national passion prone to partisanship

The Sunday Papers: History of a national passion prone to partisanship

Mark O’Brien and Joe Breen examine a title race built on nationalism, religion and sex

Sat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
Frank McDonald’s memoir takes on politicians, Catholicism and ‘The Irish Times’

Frank McDonald’s memoir takes on politicians, Catholicism and ‘The Irish Times’

‘Truly Frank’ review: Journalist’s book is surprisingly vulnerable and expertly bitchy

Sat Oct 27 2018 - 06:10
Anne Harris: Pro-choice activists are on a 35-year march of attrition

Anne Harris: Pro-choice activists are on a 35-year march of attrition

What’s changed? Pro-life proponents no longer root arguments in Catholic absolutism

Sat May 19 2018 - 01:19
Anne Harris: Why the young are drawn to Sinn Féin

Anne Harris: Why the young are drawn to Sinn Féin

Trinity students falling for Sinn Féin’s charms? One-quarter are on Susi grants

Fri Apr 20 2018 - 01:46
Logical Family: a memoir review: Armistead Maupin’s long journey

Logical Family: a memoir review: Armistead Maupin’s long journey

Armistead Maupin wrote an anthem for doomed youth while celebrating diversity

Sat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
First Time Ever by Peggy Seeger – an elegy for folk music

First Time Ever by Peggy Seeger – an elegy for folk music

There are no sonorous signals of big moments, rather a series of chronological arabesques, which is why this amazing life reads more like a novel

Sat Oct 07 2017 - 06:00
She wanted to be a priest all her life

She wanted to be a priest all her life

Singer and lecturer Nóirín Ní Riain on spirituality, her journey to become a minister and why she left the Catholic Church

Fri Jul 14 2017 - 05:00
The Opal and The Pearl review: a voyage around four Irish writers

The Opal and The Pearl review: a voyage around four Irish writers

Mark Patrick Hederman analyses creativity in Joyce, Iris Murdoch, Yeats and Heaney

Sat Jun 24 2017 - 06:00

Death of a She Devil review: skewering smug Botox feminists

Fay Weldon wickedly lances fake feminism like a boil in this topical, absurdist satire

Sat Apr 15 2017 - 06:00
Anne Harris: The McCabes deserve answers, not  apologies

Anne Harris: The McCabes deserve answers, not apologies

Garda whistleblower was right to respond to the HSE’s contrition with savage indignation

Wed Feb 15 2017 - 08:30
Anne Harris: Shadow of Siteserv and Moriarty tribunal hung over Fine Gael

Anne Harris: Shadow of Siteserv and Moriarty tribunal hung over Fine Gael

Coalition completely ignored fact people need to talk about Denis O’Brien

Wed Mar 02 2016 - 19:22
Anne Harris: We all fell for John Paul II’s sweet nothings

Anne Harris: We all fell for John Paul II’s sweet nothings

Pope had intense relationship with woman but seduced us all with liberal promise

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 01:00
Anne Harris: O’Riada’s epic clash of cymbals became a clash of symbols

Anne Harris: O’Riada’s epic clash of cymbals became a clash of symbols

In terrible revolutionary fall-out his Mise Éire master piece was expropriated by Republicanism

Sat Jan 16 2016 - 06:00
Anne Harris: Denigration of Gore-Booth sisters reveals Yeats’s flinty heart

Anne Harris: Denigration of Gore-Booth sisters reveals Yeats’s flinty heart

Poet’s behaviour mirrors that of many patriarchal institutions, particularly – and ironically – the Catholic Church

Sat Dec 05 2015 - 01:36
Anne Harris: Why there are too few women in theatre and politics

Anne Harris: Why there are too few women in theatre and politics

How can so much space go to wolf-whistling when misogyny is alive and kicking?

Mon Nov 09 2015 - 10:01
Anne Harris: History will judge O’Reilly as a man of principle

Anne Harris: History will judge O’Reilly as a man of principle

While the former newspaper proprietor will always have his critics, his dedication to press freedom is unassailable

Fri Oct 02 2015 - 18:08
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