Diarmaid Ferriter: An election will be good for the integrity of the presidencyMichael D Higgins has to do something without precedent; separate the office from the candidate as a sitting presidentSat Aug 04 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Truth of what lies beneath Tuam home must be uncoveredIt is unacceptable that confusion over site has been allowed drag on for four yearsSat Jul 28 2018 - 05:00
A bloody difficult woman? Theresa May isn’t nearly difficult enoughDiarmaid Ferriter: The PM’s Brexit strategy is to limp on. She should face down her criticsSat Jul 21 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Pope’s visit might save us from Mother Mary MadiganPerhaps she could lead a merry band of female dope smokers, fornicators and papal protestersSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: We can’t let dark past define Irish social historyContemporary emotion can cloud historical assessment and destroy nuanceSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Semantics and Ireland’s tax statusDepartment of Finance persists in denying Ireland is world’s biggest tax havenSat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
The Cambridge History of Ireland: A mammoth, inspiring workTom Bartlett’s four-volume edition is a marvellously satisfying 1,500-year surveySat Jun 02 2018 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Who fears to speak of May 1968?Critics argue social revolution sparked by Paris protests has run its courseSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
Tom Murphy confronted the Famine’s legacy of silenceDiarmaid Ferriter: He went early and courageously to uncomfortable placesSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
Higgins is right that history should be compulsory for Junior CertWe should be aware of the ignorance the downgrading of history has generated elsewhereSat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: British indifference to Irish Border is indefensibleBorder is being taken as seriously as the boundary commissioners in Spike Milligan’s ‘Puckoon’Sat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
Sinn Féin and the conscription crisisFor the newly-galvanised party, 1918 was characterised by protest, piety, propaganda, prison and ultimately political triumphTue Apr 24 2018 - 00:00
The Pro Life Campaign’s definition of love is cruelDiarmaid Ferriter: It is a strange kind of love that denies a teenage rape victim an abortionSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Northern politicians must sort out their own problemsSurely the point of the Belfast Agreement was the opportunity afforded for self-determination?Sat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
Catholic morality has been replaced by a destructive sexualityDiarmaid Ferriter: Ireland’s attitudes towards sex are still hugely problematicSat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Anti-abortion movement trusts politicians only when it suits themDiarmaid Ferriter: Eighth Amendment was result of efforts in 1983 to politicise abortionSat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Pope’s visit will do little for image of church in IrelandWomen looking to be taken seriously in Church organisation will still be ‘shouting from outside’Sat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
As Schmidt has taught Ireland’s rugby team, so he can teach the rest of usDiarmaid Ferriter: Grand-slam coach ended ‘glorious’ failures with proper organisationSat Mar 17 2018 - 19:57
Kindling the Flame: 150 years of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation by Niamh Puirséil – striking the right balanceA measure of the INTO’s resilience is that it had 7,000 members in the North by 2017Sat Mar 17 2018 - 06:00
We must listen to civic unionism’s concerns about Irish language ActState intervention may only deepen divide and it could prove counterproductiveSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Varadkar’s spin strategy undermines his leadershipDiarmaid Ferriter: Taoiseach should learn from Blair on the dangers of the ‘constant campaign’Sat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Ireland 1916-2016 review – rigorous, accessible and often irreverentRoy Foster and others show the humanities’ role in urgent contemporary debateSat Mar 03 2018 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: The snow makes me think of Tom Crean’s brother CorneliusThe Creans’ legacy reveals much about loyalty and service as we approach War of Independence centenarySat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Both sides to the Brexit debate can lay claim to ChurchillIn recent years, the Tory simplification of British history has been nakedly politicalSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish banks have abused customers for centuriesHistory shows that our financial institutions have consistently mistreated the publicSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Most TDs not remotely interested in ending Dáil gender imbalanceDiarmaid Ferriter: Women in Dáil have been quite a nuisance over the decadesSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
Around the world with Norman Davies: a powerful history lessonBeneath Another Sky is an ambitious project – both travel guide and historical narrativeSat Feb 03 2018 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland faces a day of reckoning on abortionThe State is finally confronting the consequences of the 1983 referendumSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Abortionist Mamie Cadden was no Vera DrakeCruel backstreet operator was product of decades of denial and legal ambiguitySat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
Detective Gerry O’Carroll owes Joanne Hayes an apologyDiarmaid Ferriter: The retired garda still insists Hayes gave birth to the Cahersiveen babySat Jan 20 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Paddy Harte’s courage is still neededThe Fine Gael TD sought to open eyes on both sides in the North in the face of great hostilitySat Jan 13 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Time for Ireland to recognise PalestineGovernment has opportunity to take lead within EU on Palestinian questionSat Jan 06 2018 - 05:00
100 years of slow progress since women got the vote2018 should be year women are afforded ‘high place in the councils’ of a free IrelandSat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Romantic notions no match for ugly realities of warThe focus extends to the Civil War and this reveals some of the book's strongest materialSat Dec 23 2017 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland should learn from 1921 treaty to avoid future problems with Brexit dealNegotiations of 1921 show need for Brexit talks to be built around legal claritySat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
The DUP acts as if Brexit is everyone else’s problemBy reverting to the ‘Ulster Says No’ sloganeering it may well end up being the big loserSat Dec 09 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Department of Justice has history of dismissing challengesPast shows Government not unpractised in contempt for those exposing wrongdoingSat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Gerry Adams’s career ends in irony not failureSF revolutionary politics have led party to being open to be FG’s junior partnerSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Phallic man is alive and wellWe must hear women’s testimonies now because we have underestimated how deep the abuses wentSat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00
Ireland’s slum landlords have little to fear, today as a century agoDiarmaid Ferriter: Politicians’ threats have never meant much in practiceSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Halloween’s sugar mountain part of a relentless cycleThe Irish Heart Foundation puts it simply: ‘Stop targeting children’Sat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Cosgrave’s support of the Garda cast a long shadowSome disturbing practices flourished when Cosgrave’s government was in officeSat Oct 14 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland’s complex ties with CataloniaRepublicans have a long history with Catalan nationalists, despite their significant differencesSat Oct 07 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Cosgrave was a man of strong views who disliked ‘codology’Vote on contraception backed up reputation for having ‘deeply pious old head on young shoulders’Thu Oct 05 2017 - 16:30
Whispers from the past, personal reflections on revolutionary KerryDiarmaid Ferriter on ‘Wounds: a memoir of war and love’ by Fergal KeaneSat Sept 30 2017 - 06:00
Time for Stormont politicians to discover the self in self-determinationDiarmaid Ferriter: Even with Brexit looming both sides opt for hand-holdingSat Sept 30 2017 - 05:00
So much for Leo Varadkar’s ‘republic of opportunity’Diarmaid Ferriter: We’re in for more of the same. The human cost will be devastatingSat Sept 23 2017 - 05:00
Atlas of the Irish Revolution is mammoth and magnificentDiarmaid Ferriter: This book distills a huge range of perspectives in an accessible formatSat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00
The State’s indifference to sale of Yeats collection is strikingThere is no more appropriate place for the Yeats papers than the National LibrarySat Sept 16 2017 - 05:00
Class and ideology have always dominated Irish housing policyGovernments have the desire to solve housing issues, but refuse to face down vested interestsSat Sept 09 2017 - 05:00
