Old question of who pulls the strings comes back to haunt Sinn Féin

Backroom people with senior IRA pedigrees appear to wield considerable influence

Jean McConville’s murder, the Boston tapes, Gerry Adams and the Ivor Bell trial

Long read: Tapes which implicated Gerry Adams deemed inadmissible in Belfast trial

Dolours Price: Civil rights activist, bomber and peace process sceptic

I, Dolours, a documentary portrait of late IRA woman Dolours Price, is essential viewing

Inside dissident republican groups: A new book throws light on their thinking

Paramilitary organisations see opportunity in Brexit – the harder Brexit the better

New book claims to reveal the killers of Jean McConville

Author Patrick Radden Keefe's 'Say Nothing' explores a killing that still resonates

Filming Dolours Price: ‘Her name is Latin for sorrow. That describes her life’

Journalist Ed Moloney on his interview with the compelling, acidic late IRA woman

The best films from the 30th Galway Film Fleadh

The 2018 Fleadh was defined by some first-class documentaries. Evidence that we can’t escape our violent past came with Keepers of the Flame, Unquiet Graves and I, Dolours

Handling of Ludlow murder suggests a scandal, High Court hears

Family of forester shot by suspected loyalists seek inquiry into gaps in Garda investigation

Maggie Scull: Republicans and historians remain divided over hunger strikes

The strikes filled column inches at home and abroad but their impact and legacy cannot be easily or neatly defined

IRA has sharpened claws in absence of monitoring commission

Either IRA has got new weapons or it was not truthful on decommissioning

Historians fear Boston tapes controversy will damage research into the Troubles

College’s decision to return interviews ‘not a good precedent for researchers’

The returning of the Boston tapes

Full text of Adams speech following his release

Sinn Féin President criticises the ‘the Dark Side of the British system’

Television: Two faces of composure – one defying cancer, the other denying the past

The ‘Morning Ireland’ presenter Áine Lawlor kept cool in ‘Facing Cancer’, but ‘The Disappeared’, about victims of the IRA, had some genuinely chilling moments