Fintan O’Toole: The DUP created this mess but now it belongs to all of us

Unionism in disarray is dangerous, and tribalised glee at its plight is idiotic

Off the rails – An Irishman’s Diary on the 1920 munitions strike

Diarmaid Ferriter: Bloody Sunday 1920 changed British attitudes to Ireland

Backlash left IRA reeling and enhanced British intelligence. Then talk turned to truce

‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’

Deirdre Kinahan on her site-specific play about the 1920 munitions strike

Diarmaid Ferriter: It’s still hard to rise above the emotion of the War of Independence

It invokes such partiality that, 100 years later, untangling its knotted legacy is not easy

JJ Lee’s ‘total history’ of modern Ireland: Still required reading 30 years on

Historian’s classic account lacerated the country’s mediocrity and begrudgery

Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland is back on the menu in Westminster

Will Theresa May’s newfound interest in Ireland pay dividends?

Church of Ireland notes

Markievicz notes confirm Rising leaders studied 1803 rebellion

Papers released by Lissadell House owners reveal jailed Countess at lowest ebb in 1916

Opinion: Constitutional means would not have delivered self-determination in 1916

Rising was an offshoot of the Great War

Diarmuid Ferriter’s books of the year

Author of Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s

John Banville’s books of the year

Author, as Benjamin Black, of Holy Orders