Recalling the Celtic Tiger: Insightful overview of the excitement and excess

Book review: Fintan O'Toole on the effects, symptoms and consequences of Ireland’s economic boom

Catholicism’s influence is very much alive in Ireland

The faith still has significant public and private sway despite blows to the church

Rite & Reason: Priest’s passing underlines crisis faced by church

As clergy die, who will replace them? Without priests, there can be no Eucharist

Ability of Wesley Burrowes to ‘capture character’ recalled

Funeral told ‘stories mattered’ to the playwright, author and scriptwriter

Remembering ‘The Dark’: Fifty years on from the ‘McGahern affair’

The writer lost his teaching job when ‘The Dark’, which dealt with child abuse, was banned

An Irishman’s Diary on a classic novel of the Great War

How Céline debunked the mythology of conflict

Attitude of French writer-priest, dead 33 years, reflected in word and deed by Pope Francis

Opinion: At a time when anger and hostility to the church are prevalent, we could do with more priests like this

French to debate whether to teach university courses in English