Diarmaid Ferriter: Germany right to allow republication of Mein KampfIt is the logical conclusion of a decades long process of public acknowledgment of Nazi pastSat Dec 05 2015 - 09:30
Diarmaid Ferriter: Schools system is blatantly sectarianAdmissions policies are another ‘dark stain’ and an affront to the ideals of the RepublicSat Nov 28 2015 - 01:00
1916: The Mornings After review: Tim Pat Coogan’s arrogant travesty of Irish historyIreland’s ‘best known historical writer’ utterly fails in this badly researched ‘personal perspective’ of the Irish century, says Diarmaid FerriterSat Nov 21 2015 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: New SDLP leader should take party into opposition and challenge SFColum Eastwood needs to dig his own trench and move his party out of the Hume shadowSat Nov 21 2015 - 03:47
The first World War: A mix of despair and optimismThe first World War provided both the opportunity for Irish republicans to plan their revolt and evidence that their ambitions were not shared by the majority, writes Diarmaid FerriterWed Nov 18 2015 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Unite us, Lord, but not if it costs moneyDespite the rhetoric, there is a deep ambivalence about partition throughout IrelandSun Nov 08 2015 - 12:28
Until Victory Always: A Memoir: Jim McGuinness is more than a football manThe former Donegal manager’s memoir, co-written with Keith Duggan, is a powerful blend of defiance and vulnerability, writes Diarmaid FerriterSat Nov 07 2015 - 01:04
Diarmaid Ferriter: The advice of Ireland’s first celebrity chef is more relevant than everIt is no harm to remind ourselves how sound this age old advice is, given the furore during the week over the World Health Organisation’s report on links between red meat consumption and certain cancers.Sat Oct 31 2015 - 02:36
Diarmaid Ferriter: Echoes of an earlier tragedy in Carrickmines fireTen young migrant workers from Achill Island died in Kirkintillock bothy fire in 1937Sat Oct 17 2015 - 03:03
Diarmaid Ferriter: Kenny should stop playing party politics over Republic DayGovernment is running scared of making such a bold move at precisely the time when a bold move would be appropriate and popularSat Oct 10 2015 - 05:51
Diarmaid Ferriter: Johnny Ronan’s faux patriotism is crass and self-servingNazi reference says much about the hubris, arrogance and delusion of aggrieved, self-pitying gamblers who strode the Celtic Tiger terrainSat Oct 03 2015 - 06:29
Diarmaid Ferriter: Telling our children about the Easter rising is still no easy thingSimplistic narratives are complicated by new sourcesSun Sept 27 2015 - 18:57
Diarmaid Ferriter: why the Rising mattersAlthough militarily unsuccessful, the Rising and execution of leaders that followed had transformative impactWed Sept 23 2015 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: What difference has the Labour party made?‘After nearly 40 years in politics, Ruairí Quinn is more than entitled to his final war cry’Sat Sept 19 2015 - 04:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Unravelling the myths about migration to Ireland‘Successive Irish governments were wary of a generous approach to refugees for different reasons relevant to particular eras’Sat Sept 12 2015 - 04:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: From Aran air service to Star Wars, we must mind our islandsMike Carney recorded ‘my father told them to write down that the government killed him’Sat Sept 05 2015 - 08:02
Diarmaid Ferriter: Michael Collins was no trail-blazing feministCollins wrote to Art O’Brien to express his disapproval about an intelligence operation that had been delegated to a womanSat Aug 29 2015 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Last chance to get your certificate of Irish heritage‘How should we characterise this certificate experiment of the past five years? Crass? Embarrassing? A tacky attempt to try and exploit the success of the digitisation by the National Archives of the Irish census records of 1901 and 1911?’Sat Aug 22 2015 - 04:00
Ireland a bulwark of empire and a mine within its wallsIreland and End of the British Empire: The Republic and its role in Cyprus EmergencySat Aug 15 2015 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: How do you prefer our Fenian dead – revered or reviled?It seems the Government is not interested in historical nuance or debate about what precisely it is commemoratingSat Aug 15 2015 - 04:00
Domhnall ua Buachalla: Rebellious Nationalist, Reluctant GovernorAn account of a deeply private man, but his grandson’s efforts are lengthy and lack insightSat Aug 01 2015 - 00:49
Diarmaid Ferriter: Refreshing to hear priest fulminate against sinful excesses of sky athletesClimbing Croagh Patrick can be a joy, but not if you are covered in dust and falling on loose stonesSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:12
Diarmaid Ferriter: Labour’s woes rooted in more than an ungrateful electorateParty punished for abandoning its principles and identitySat Jul 11 2015 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Flanagan boasts Irish are pride of Europe – but what kind of Europe?‘The Irish Government’s current smugness is an indication of just how little appetite there is for analysing the European project’Sat Jun 27 2015 - 04:20
Diarmaid Ferriter: Best little country? Not for Clerys workers and art treasuresTwo controversies bring into sharp and depressing focus the issues of vulture capitalism and the debasement of our national heritageSat Jun 20 2015 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Trap’s dignified defiance and Delaney’s Blatter ‘deal’‘Who knows how many grubby deals Blatter sanctioned in his 15 years at the helm of Fifa’Sat Jun 13 2015 - 13:09
Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918-23, by Maurice WalshThe book distils well the existing literature, but fails to examine events in a global context, says Diarmaid FerriterSat Jun 13 2015 - 02:16
Diarmaid Ferriter: Why O’Brien should reach for the capital R in Republican‘Controlling the Denis O’Brien narrative is central to the recent media storm’Sat Jun 06 2015 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Emigrants’ voting rights should be extended‘In the absence of political will to do anything substantial to enfranchise Irish emigrants, talk of the “global Irish family” is just self-serving and lazy blather’Sat May 30 2015 - 08:01
Diarmaid Ferriter: Should central role of the Central Bank be the public interest?‘TK Whitaker suggested the role assigned to a central bank is to be cautious, to be the warning light’Sat May 23 2015 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: How Britain left us with PR votingIt all started with the bankruptcy of Sligo Corporation during the first World WarSat May 16 2015 - 03:12
Diarmaid Ferriter: Marriage needs to be redefined – the referendum will do that‘There is every reason to feel shameful about how Irish society subjected gay people to a harrowing and hurtful discrimination for far too long’Sat May 09 2015 - 08:03
Review: 16 Lives: Willie Pearse: destined to stay in brother’s shadowThis valiant attempt to chart the younger Pearse’s experiences suffers from a lack of source material, says Diarmaid FerriterSat May 09 2015 - 02:41
Diarmaid Ferriter: Why the interest in the royal birth?‘Given the extent of the political turmoil and revolution how was it that interest in the royal family remained so strong?’Sat May 02 2015 - 13:52
Diarmaid Ferriter: The ghost of WB Yeats lingers over referendum and beyond‘Commemoration of poet’s life and poems will enrich the coming summer’Sat May 02 2015 - 05:00
Varadkar is becoming a cheerleader for private health insurance‘How can promoting greater uptake of private insurance be seen as a step towards universal health care in the absence of a plan for universal health insurance?’Sat Apr 25 2015 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Will the real Hillary Clinton please stand?Former US secretary of state faces uphill challenge in upcoming presidential electionSat Apr 18 2015 - 03:30
Diarmaid Ferriter: Dunnes Stores’ silence and devotion‘In penning his appreciation of Ben Dunne in 1983, TK Whitaker was keen to smooth the sharpness of Ben’s approach to his business’Sat Apr 11 2015 - 03:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Failure to reverse Junior Cert history plan is inexcusableThe Government’s 1916 centenary programme addresses some blind spotsSat Apr 04 2015 - 08:32
Diarmaid Ferriter: Abuse survivors divided over records planThe late Mary Raftery described Ryan report as ‘a monument to a society’s shame’Sat Mar 28 2015 - 03:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Commemoration nation: a chance to reflect on 1916‘Ours may be the best little country in which to do business – but what about our society?’Sat Mar 21 2015 - 03:30
Diarmaid Ferriter: The more bishops say about marriage, the better for a Yes vote‘If Archbishop Diarmuid Martin looks so frequently harried these days it is because he now has to do three other things on top of regular media engagements’Sat Mar 14 2015 - 02:00
A history of modern Ireland in 60 ironiesSupreme irony in New Land League declarations at palatial home of solicitorSat Mar 07 2015 - 04:00
Hearts of stone in Ireland’s civil warDuring the Irish Civil War the National Army executed more Irishmen than the British had during the War of Independence. In an extract from his new book Diarmaid Ferriter documents this ruthless military strategySat Mar 07 2015 - 01:00
Historian Ronan Fanning and Charlie Flanagan conjure up a strange vision of 2016Diarmaid Ferriter: ‘Historians in tanks. Relatives in conflict. Taoisigh at loggerheads. Royals invited then uninvited. Poets aflame. And it is only 2015’Sat Feb 28 2015 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Powerful drama tells story of Irish soldiers at Gallipoli‘Pals’ anchors history of British army campaign in the voices of the participantsSun Feb 22 2015 - 12:01
Diarmaid Ferriter: Hypocrisy on Clare Daly’s Bill mirrors that of 30 years agoDebate on family planning Bill evoked similar posturingSat Feb 14 2015 - 16:00
Review of Emmet Dalton: Somme Soldier, Irish General, Film PioneerA long overdue biography of the man who sided with Michael Collins and survived the war to help found Ardmore StudiosSat Feb 14 2015 - 13:08
Diarmaid Ferriter: Our ambivalent attitude to drink has been apparent since foundation of State‘Campaign to tackle “out of control drinking” funded by drinks giant Diageo is surely an Irish solution to an Irish problem’Sun Feb 08 2015 - 16:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Do under-35s have what it takes to be president of Ireland?Referendum on age of presidential candidates not the way to engage the youngSun Feb 01 2015 - 12:02
