Irish culture’s remarkable response to the political turmoil from 1891 to 1922
Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere
Despair, defiance and democracy: Ireland in 1922
Part of the challenge of this year’s centenary is to confront the silences around 1922
What would Michael Collins have become? Democrat or autocrat, moderniser or traditionalist?
Evidence indicates Collins was a man of his time who shared prevailing values of 1922
NTMA slow out of the blocks this year in raising debt
Cantillon: Word is Belgium and Ireland will launch large bond deals by end of the week
NTMA picks Frank O’Connor as next chief executive
Incoming chief is agency’s head of funding and debt management
NTMA CEO race sees O’Connor and Carville face off in final line-up
Decision expected imminently on successor to Conor O’Kelly
NTMA fundraising to fall up to 46% after Covid shock
Reduced borrowing plan for 2022 reflects State’s improving fiscal position
Brendan McDonagh, Dara Deering and Des Carville among NTMA CEO candidates
A successor to Conor O’Kelly is expected to be selected by the end of the year
Moody’s raises outlook for Republic for first time since 2017
Ratings agency forecasts continuing growth despite threats
Can Ireland rely on super-low interest rates to manage Covid-19 debt?
Smart Money: The future of interest rates is the biggest economic question in decades
Restaurateur Peter White’s lifetime collection sale to include notable artworks
Sale of some 350 lots includes paintings, bronzes, prints, antique furniture, china and silver
NTMA to raise up to €20bn in bond markets next year
The funding is needed to cover the budgetary hole caused by Covid and Brexit
NTMA says this year’s borrowing will be closer to €24bn
Debt agency claims borrowing will be at the ‘upper range’ after launch of July stimulus
State to auction €750m worth of Irish treasury bills
NTMA plans to raise a total of between €20-€24bn of long-term funding this year
NTMA raises €1.5bn mainly at negative rates
Latest bond auction brings to €20 billion amount NTMA has raised on long-term debt markets so far this year
Central Bank governor to call for ‘credible’ path’ to cut State debt post-Covid-19
High level of debt will leave State vulnerable to future shocks, warns Makhlouf
NTMA could raise €4bn in sale of 10-year bonds
Market conditions and investor feedback led to decision to sell long-term facility
NTMA broadens borrowing plans as Donohoe eyes 7.5% budget deficit
Agency set to raise between €20 billion and €24 billion in long-term bond markets in 2020
The forgotten Irishwoman who once ruled the New York fashion industry
Dubliner Carmel Snow gave Truman Capote his first major platform, and launched Dior and Balenciaga in the US market
State hits 40% of minimum 2020 funding target with bond sale
NTMA sells 15-year bond to carry 0.45% yield
NTMA to borrow less next year as it focuses on paying down debt
Agency sold €15.4bn of long-term bonds this year, at the lower end of its full-year target
Upperdown review: Murder, mayhem and maths in Tipperary
David Brennan’s clever Irish debut presents a deeply unsettling world
NTMA makes rare use of inflation-linked bond to raise €300m
Debt management agency used product only once before, raising €609.5m in April 2017
The Big Fellow review: A lesson in what happens when you stop teaching history
Based on Frank O’Connor’s life of Michael Collins, Declan Gorman’s play misses its mark
‘Ireland is the country for ruins’: Why I seek out our abandoned homes
Thank the damp climate for our many ruined castles, cottages, ballrooms and barns
Top BBC journalist honoured at Cork Person of the Year
Fergal Keane pays tribute to native city during ceremony for Hall of Fame award
NTMA to raise up to €18bn next year as ECB ends QE
Government also faces an interest bill of €5.32 billion
The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’
US author James Mustich says the book that took him 14 years to write should be thought of as a kind of imaginary bookshop
NTMA highlights Brexit risks to Irish bonds
Agency says recent move in credit spreads is ‘noteworthy’
‘Fiction is becoming darker, weirder, bent-out-of-shape’
Ashley Stokes, who publishes the Unthology series of short fiction, on the state of the short story in Ireland and the UK
Theo Dorgan: Back to the house my father built
Home is where you start out into the world from; you are never truly completely there, and you never leave
Fitch upgrades Ireland’s credit rating to A+
Rating agency cites significant reduction in Ireland’s annual debt service costs
The Phantom Flann – An Irishman’s Diary about the framing of Brian O’Nolan for a photograph he wasn’t in
O’Nolan spent his career pretending to be other people. And sometimes even the other people were not who they were supposed to be
Eimear McBride on Edna O’Brien’s ‘rigorous, beautiful’ The Country Girls
This famous, infamous, beloved and influential novel didn’t break the mould. It made it
Moody’s upgrades Ireland’s rating to A2 with ‘stable outlook’
Paschal Donohoe says move is an acknowledgement of economic improvement
The State of Us, Part 2: Irish identity is no longer fit for purpose
Ireland’s old markers of land, nationality and religion fail to reflect changes in society
BBC rejected Waiting for Godot as ‘too Irish’
The BBC, formed in the same year as the Irish Free State, became an imaginary homeland for Irish writers from Yeats and MacNeice to Beckett and Bowen
State opens new avenue to raise money ahead of €29bn refinancing
NTMA sells €609.5m through issuance of first-ever inflation-linked bond
Ithaca review: Fierce and funny modern odyssey
Alan McMonagle’s enthralling debut follows an Irish teenager trying to imagine a better life
William Trevor: Writers are outsiders with no place in society
Obituary: Writer of ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ and novelist made Irish themes universal
Madge Herron: Eccentric and brilliant Irish poet of London’s streets
The legacy of the Donegal-born poet and performer has been reclaimed in a new book
Body found believed to be farmer whose tractor fell into river
The 70-year-old, living in north Kerry, had not been seen since Monday
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Irish road to modernity has no straight lines
The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be
Fintan O’Toole: Pathological narcissism stymies Fianna Fáil support for Fine Gael
Party needs to convince itself that the beautiful reflection it sees in the mirror is a real, and utterly unique, self
Abbey archive – act one, scene one: Sexism and censorship
Abbey Theatre unveils digitised papers revealing role of era’s Irish literary giants
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1946 – The Becker Wives, by Mary Lavin
The four stories in this fine collection by an unpredictable, taboo-breaching writer capture a mood of struggling with confinement
Irish culture in 1945 was both lively and bleak
The ‘Irish Times’ Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks project has published its first 30 entries, covering 1916-1945 – a time of paradoxical philistinism and creativity
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