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The Routledge History of Irish America: A vast and comprehensive study of all aspects of the Irish-American experience

The Routledge History of Irish America: A vast and comprehensive study of all aspects of the Irish-American experience

Vigorous and critically minded history proves that the shifting and sometimes contradictory ‘social construct’ of Irish America cannot be reduced to one singular identity

Sat Nov 16 2024 - 05:00
We have entered a no man’s land, an age of dizzying transitions

We have entered a no man’s land, an age of dizzying transitions

The far right has been much better than the left at giving voters the illusion that it has an accurate map across these liminal spaces

Tue Nov 12 2024 - 06:00
An unhappy Ireland prepares for a general election

An unhappy Ireland prepares for a general election

The expansion of the State is no longer a lefty position in Irish politics. It is pretty much everybody’s position

Fri Nov 08 2024 - 06:00
Donald Trump’s openly authoritarian instincts are about to be unleashed

Donald Trump’s openly authoritarian instincts are about to be unleashed

It is no longer possible to batten down the hatches and think 'this too will pass'

Thu Nov 07 2024 - 02:30
What has happened to the cowboys who built defective apartments? Absolutely nothing

What has happened to the cowboys who built defective apartments? Absolutely nothing

No prosecutions, no financial costs, no names and damn all shame

Tue Nov 05 2024 - 06:25
Fintan O’Toole: Trump 2.0 will see US become a fascist state, tempered by senility and greed

Fintan O’Toole: Trump 2.0 will see US become a fascist state, tempered by senility and greed

Fintan O’Toole: Fintan O’Toole: US voters have had had ample warning as the former president has set out his intentions quite explicitly

Tue Oct 29 2024 - 08:00
Sinn Féin responds to child abuse more or less as the Catholic hierarchy did

Sinn Féin responds to child abuse more or less as the Catholic hierarchy did

Dress Cardinal McDonald and her bishops in episcopal robes and it’s a movie we’ve all seen before

Tue Oct 22 2024 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Politicians are in a long-distance relationship with the consequences of their decisions

Fintan O’Toole: Politicians are in a long-distance relationship with the consequences of their decisions

Take Ireland’s top manufacturer of insulation - not Kingspan, but the HSE. It creates layers of impenetrable padding between political decision-makers and the consequences

Tue Oct 15 2024 - 06:00
I take no pleasure in saying that Hamas is winning

I take no pleasure in saying that Hamas is winning

Israel is putting all its eggs in Donald Trump’s grubby basket, banking on an alliance with a man whose friendship tends to be more toxic than his enmity

Tue Oct 08 2024 - 06:00
Government has a windfall of cash but no coherent sense of how to spend it

Government has a windfall of cash but no coherent sense of how to spend it

We have a windfall – but the golden apples seem to have fallen on our heads. Our governing culture has lost its great get-out clause: ‘If only we had the money…'

Mon Sept 30 2024 - 12:15
It’s all eyes on the election now and children don’t have a vote

It’s all eyes on the election now and children don’t have a vote

Hey, kids – we have a roadmap. Just hang on in there and try not to get too angry and ashamed about being poor in a rich country

Tue Sept 24 2024 - 06:00
Ireland fixates on the ghosts of the past, and is blind to the abuses still happening

Ireland fixates on the ghosts of the past, and is blind to the abuses still happening

Somehow we can only feel pain of abused and abandoned children in safe retrospect, when it is brought to light after decades underground

Tue Sept 17 2024 - 06:00
Schools sexual abuse inquiry: It was open season on children’s bodies. These men did what they liked

Schools sexual abuse inquiry: It was open season on children’s bodies. These men did what they liked

We called the predatory paedophile in my school Little Plum. We all learned early the required habits of toxic silence

Tue Sept 10 2024 - 06:00
The cataract bus is, like all great Irish inventions, the fruit of carelessness and clientelism

The cataract bus is, like all great Irish inventions, the fruit of carelessness and clientelism

The bus to Belfast for cataract surgery is a brilliant bit of political entrepreneurship, but it clouds the reality that healthcare is a right and we, the public, pay for all these treatments

Tue Sept 03 2024 - 06:11
Behind Kamala Harris’s megawatt smile at the convention, I saw a ruthless machine at work

Behind Kamala Harris’s megawatt smile at the convention, I saw a ruthless machine at work

The Democrats have generated an equal and opposite reaction to their own culpable inertia, a unity of purpose that makes them much more like the Republicans. It’s not always pretty to watch

Tue Aug 27 2024 - 06:11
How apt that Democratic convention marks the passing  of the last old-style Irish Catholic politician

How apt that Democratic convention marks the passing of the last old-style Irish Catholic politician

The 1968 convention was the last hurrah for a phenomenon of huge importance in our own history: the Irish-American political machine. How apt that this week’s convention will mark the reluctant end of the career of Joe Biden

Tue Aug 20 2024 - 06:15
One law for megarich provocateur Elon Musk, another for the poor idiots who follow

One law for megarich provocateur Elon Musk, another for the poor idiots who follow

The eejits who get caught have been hooked by algorithms engineered by social media companies

Tue Aug 13 2024 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland has gone from an emigrant society to an immigrant-emigrant society

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland has gone from an emigrant society to an immigrant-emigrant society

Ireland has become far better at creating jobs, and like every other place where there are work opportunities, it attracts people who want to make a better life for themselves

Tue Aug 06 2024 - 06:00
With all the confidence of a hostage in a ransom video, Catherine Martin began dismantling RTÉ

With all the confidence of a hostage in a ransom video, Catherine Martin began dismantling RTÉ

No one in Government has put forward any justification for hollowing out RTÉ. But, in an age when trusted information has never been more vital to the defence of democracy, that is what it is doing

Tue Jul 30 2024 - 06:00
Joe Biden has ended the agony. The Democrats now have a fighting chance to save the American republic

Joe Biden has ended the agony. The Democrats now have a fighting chance to save the American republic

To watch a good man, a remarkably effective president and a courageous battler against adversity reduced to such frailty was unbearable

Mon Jul 22 2024 - 12:56
The far right is just a Farage away from breaking through in Irish politics

The far right is just a Farage away from breaking through in Irish politics

Protofascist ideas are at least as prevalent in Ireland as in other Western democracies and the reactionary, nativist mindset is well established here. All the movement is lacking is a leader

Tue Jul 16 2024 - 06:00
For his already fanatical devotees Trump’s survival will add to his messianic appeal

For his already fanatical devotees Trump’s survival will add to his messianic appeal

That Trump became a victim of the very violence he has done so much to validate will not provoke either him or his fans to think again. It will merely serve to fortify a mindset in which America is already at war with itself

Mon Jul 15 2024 - 05:59
Welcome to adventure holiday politics ... white-water rafting with Brexit, bungee jumping with Trump

Welcome to adventure holiday politics ... white-water rafting with Brexit, bungee jumping with Trump

To put it crudely, a big part of the appeal of Brexit was scale. It felt like a very big thing to do, just as, later in 2016, electing a celebrity non-politician to the White House felt big

Mon Jul 08 2024 - 11:03
Fintan O’Toole: Democrats and their media allies pretended everything was fine. It’s not fine

Fintan O’Toole: Democrats and their media allies pretended everything was fine. It’s not fine

Fintan O’Toole: If the Democrats persist with Joe Biden, the United States is in imminent danger of being handed back to a Trump who is vastly more malign than he was in 2016

Tue Jul 02 2024 - 06:30
Cathal Crotty’s suspended sentence another example of how judicial system is failing women

Cathal Crotty’s suspended sentence another example of how judicial system is failing women

The administration of justice for violent men is out of kilter with our values and we can no longer suspend disbelief

Tue Jun 25 2024 - 06:00
Failure to prevent destruction of records is a further insult to those whose identities were stolen

Failure to prevent destruction of records is a further insult to those whose identities were stolen

To treat these records with such contempt is to repeat the contempt shown by Church and State to thousands of women and children

Tue Jun 18 2024 - 06:00
Sinn Féin was the shock absorber of Irish politics. It’s worn out

Sinn Féin was the shock absorber of Irish politics. It’s worn out

Local and European elections: Don’t be fooled by the Coalition parties’ electoral success. The right is rising

Mon Jun 10 2024 - 14:27
There’s one fundamental reason why we have a housing crisis

There’s one fundamental reason why we have a housing crisis

The wealthier the State has become, the more money it shells just to find homeless families a bed for the night

Tue Jun 04 2024 - 06:00
Ireland is poor at innovation, but a world-class producer of complacency and self-satisfaction

Ireland is poor at innovation, but a world-class producer of complacency and self-satisfaction

It’s not about the failure of lone geniuses to have eureka moments in the bath. It’s not caused by the lack of work ethic. It’s about the collective environment

Tue May 28 2024 - 06:00
Tony O’Reilly’s secret past shaped his need to play the life of an Ascendancy landlord

Tony O’Reilly’s secret past shaped his need to play the life of an Ascendancy landlord

It’s hard to avoid the belief that something of his anomalous origins must have been present in what O’Reilly became

Mon May 20 2024 - 12:00
Dublin portal reminds us that our capital has an uneasy edge of wildness

Dublin portal reminds us that our capital has an uneasy edge of wildness

Fintan O’Toole: The erection of the portal linking night-time inner city Dublin to daytime New York was a heroic act of denial

Sat May 18 2024 - 06:00
One of the two main museums dedicated to memory of Great Famine has disappeared. That’s astonishing

One of the two main museums dedicated to memory of Great Famine has disappeared. That’s astonishing

That the world’s largest collection of visual art and printed materials relating to the Great Famine is in storage in America is a grim story of what happens when a nation fails to take ownership of a central part of its own history

Tue May 14 2024 - 06:00
A hard Border is now a patriotic cause - and we laughed at the British for that kind of nonsense

A hard Border is now a patriotic cause - and we laughed at the British for that kind of nonsense

Giving these gifts to the 'Ireland is full' mob borders on the insane.

Tue May 07 2024 - 06:00
Catastrophic decline of wild Irish salmon is another of the slow scandals of Irish life

Catastrophic decline of wild Irish salmon is another of the slow scandals of Irish life

Over the last few decades, we’ve driven the salmon from our rivers, recklessly but ruthlessly

Tue Apr 30 2024 - 06:00
Have we ditched the Stardust-era stereotype that the working classes are wild and reckless?

Have we ditched the Stardust-era stereotype that the working classes are wild and reckless?

Both reports unknowingly unleashed demons of prejudice that were hidden in the Id of the Irish establishment.

Tue Apr 23 2024 - 06:00
We are facing the terrifying result of the West’s three stupid mistakes in the Middle East

We are facing the terrifying result of the West’s three stupid mistakes in the Middle East

In Jerusalem and Tehran, there are people who pray for Armageddon

Mon Apr 15 2024 - 13:09
If Israel succeeds in Gaza, it will drag the West down with it

If Israel succeeds in Gaza, it will drag the West down with it

Israel is the child of the very international order it is now helping to destroy

Tue Apr 09 2024 - 06:00
Fine Gael’s choice to replace a property-owning democracy with a rent-paying one has unsettled a generation

Fine Gael’s choice to replace a property-owning democracy with a rent-paying one has unsettled a generation

And that’s just one of the big problems Simon Harris will face as taoiseach

Tue Apr 02 2024 - 06:00
Simon Harris has risen without trace, another case of survival of the smoothest

Simon Harris has risen without trace, another case of survival of the smoothest

His trajectory is proof that however you get to the top in Irish politics, it is not by fixing things

Tue Mar 26 2024 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Neither Leo Varadkar, nor anyone else, could be a ‘saviour’ of Fine Gael

Fintan O’Toole: Neither Leo Varadkar, nor anyone else, could be a ‘saviour’ of Fine Gael

His faith in ‘simple market dynamics’ provided no real answers to Ireland’s long-term questions

Sat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00
Lidl wants MetroLink redesigned so it can build apartments. And can you pay the bill please?

Lidl wants MetroLink redesigned so it can build apartments. And can you pay the bill please?

There’s an interesting thing about this massive development: it doesn’t exist. It is an outline drawing of a possible notion

Tue Mar 19 2024 - 06:00
Invited to replace a potent 1930s vision with a wishy-washy 2020s gesture, voters said no

Invited to replace a potent 1930s vision with a wishy-washy 2020s gesture, voters said no

What has taken the place of Catholic doctrine as a governing ideology is a passionless managerialism

Mon Mar 11 2024 - 15:00
If the care referendum is such a progressive change, why was the process such a travesty?

If the care referendum is such a progressive change, why was the process such a travesty?

Even if the Government’s wording were not so wretched, there would be good grounds to vote against it to protest against the process of its creation

Tue Mar 05 2024 - 07:00
Catherine Martin can save her political career and do something big for Irish democracy

Catherine Martin can save her political career and do something big for Irish democracy

RTÉ is a toxic brew whose commercial business and profit-seeking push stale content, ads and inflated salaries at the expense of public service

Tue Feb 27 2024 - 07:00
When so many RTÉ witnesses fail to show up, the joke’s on us

When so many RTÉ witnesses fail to show up, the joke’s on us

Oireachtas committees are paper tigers. Why would anyone worry too much about what they think of them?

Tue Feb 20 2024 - 06:00
I’m about to turn 66 and the pension policies for people like me are bizarre

I’m about to turn 66 and the pension policies for people like me are bizarre

Now I’m about to turn 66, the Government wants me to delay taking my State pension. So why penalise me for not taking it?

Tue Feb 13 2024 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Dee Forbes’s illness has implications that radiate far beyond Montrose

Fintan O’Toole: Dee Forbes’s illness has implications that radiate far beyond Montrose

It is an absolute requirement of democracy that those who exercise such power are accountable

Tue Feb 06 2024 - 06:00
Idea that article 41.2 had no real-life consequences is rubbish. Just ask the Aer Lingus ‘girls’

Idea that article 41.2 had no real-life consequences is rubbish. Just ask the Aer Lingus ‘girls’

What’s most extraordinary is that women themselves accepted that paid work was a male prerogative

Tue Jan 30 2024 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: We trusted Ivor Browne with our darkest secrets. He was one of Ireland’s great liberators

Fintan O’Toole: We trusted Ivor Browne with our darkest secrets. He was one of Ireland’s great liberators

Few did more to remove the barriers that separated mentally ill people from the rest of society

Thu Jan 25 2024 - 17:05
It is absurd to claim ‘Roscrea is full’. The town’s real problem is depopulation

It is absurd to claim ‘Roscrea is full’. The town’s real problem is depopulation

For the north Tipperary town and others, the ability to attract migrants should be a source of pride and energy rather than fear and suspicion

Tue Jan 23 2024 - 06:00
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