Éamon de Valera

Ireland’s memory of Éamon de Valera is complicated by many factors. Diarmaid Ferriter assesses the competing perspectives

Stephens talks about visiting his grandparents in Co Mayo, how Scotland will become independent before Northern Ireland joins the Republic and more

Candidates may mean well in vowing to act on big social issues, but the reality of being president is different

Nutriband is on track to become a billion-dollar business, while the presidency is a ceremonial role

Businessman founded Nutriband while studying for a degree – now it’s listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange

Candidates campaigning on particular political issues is a terrible idea and threatens the essence of the power of the president

Notorious second World War incident is still cited today by those critical of Ireland

Subdivided into three back in 1959, the middle section of this four-bedroom home has some super period details

A tape recording from 1984 revealed an elderly republican’s ambition to publish his life story - four decades on, it has finally come to pass

With death of John Hemingway, Ian d’Alton examines motivations of ‘The Few’

The Irish approach to foreign policy should not be to exaggerate our purity or indulge dictators, but neither should we parrot criticisms of our neutrality from miliary aligned states

Engaging with women’s experiences of partition helps to advance our perception of an enduring trauma and overcome a border in our minds

Continuity of ‘implacable social systems’ witnesses the refloating of an old focus on the back garden

The Government’s prioritisation of peaceful co-existence echoes the position adopted by de Valera in 1932 when he became acting president of the Council of the League of Nations

Television review: The story of how leading women of 1916 were later marginalised is chunkily incorporated into the grand sweep of de Valera’s fall and rise in TG4′s De Valera san Fhásach

His genius is to lull you into thinking he’s harmless

US gifted second piece of moon rock after final moon mission, which is now in National Museum

State Papers: Beleaguered Irish legation in Washington briefed that German and Italian embassies only had six staff

IRA Army Council management by Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern’s referendum worries and unionists’ mistrust are revealed in documents

President John F Kennedy visited Ireland for four days in June 1963, the year of his assassination

Furious messages to diplomats in US took issue with taoiseach’s action amid wartime neutrality

A rather uninspired choice as Oxford University Press word of the year? Maybe not

The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex

This centenary compilation pays tribute to the pre-eminent editor’s mission to enhance and uphold Ireland’s literary culture

Durcan’s poems are risk-taking explorations of where tragedy and comedy meet in contemporary Ireland. A selection of his finest work is gathered in a book

The Ireland of film-maker and author Neil Jordan’s youth was like ‘living in a fantastical universe that didn’t make any logical sense’

Irial Ó Conaill finds special the revolutionary nature of the facility, with no separate sections - so ‘everyone is equal at the very end’

The Seanad member survived gun shots, a kidnapping and the burning down of his ancestral home at Marlfield

St Mary’s College proposals will cause ‘irreversible damage’ to biodiversity, nature preservation and heritage, residents say

Perhaps not overly mindful of the horrors that would await them, many Irish people went in search of liberation, adventure or experiences unavailable at home

Éamon de Valera’s family history, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid’s views and the trends in Europe may all have contributed

We need more than apologetically modest green visions when reimagining our towns and cities

The mansplainers are in full ‘listen-ladies!’ voice, telling us we’re reading the thing all wrong

Known for her ‘old-school blunt and direct analysis of the state of the nation’, her love of people and as a role model for younger female politicians

Killings in 1922 were removed from history for decades and ‘silence was not broken’ until Canadian historian published controversial work in 1990s, says Prof Brian Walker

How much political mileage is in the Government’s insistence that ‘the centre must hold’?

Staging the Treaty: A filmed theatrical production, written by Theo Dorgan, using primary sources will soon be available to view

Tánaiste meets Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and raises Irish concerns over illegal Israeli settlements

Dr Martin Mansergh said the Collins-de-Valera draft constitution provided the basis for avoiding conflict but Churchill vetoed it

What does being neutral mean?