Noel Dorr: ‘To understand the Troubles, you must go back much further’
Forty years after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the former diplomat still sees Sunningdale as the peace deal that got way
Jack Lynch
Inevitability in presidential elections of over-promising and under-reading of the Constitution
Candidates may mean well in vowing to act on big social issues, but the reality of being president is different
Boy’s letter about not being able to play outside after Bloody Sunday touched taoiseach, new State records show
Derry boy Cormac Quigley’s note arrived during some of the darkest days of the Troubles
US airlines’ demand to be allowed to land at Dublin threatened Aer Lingus and west of Ireland, Lynch told Nixon
Washington put pressure on government in early 1970s to stop forcing passenger planes from US to land at Shannon
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (Vol 14) 1969-73: The North, above all else, required the Department of Foreign Affairs to up its game
Gleanings from departmental archives are pieces of jigsaw puzzles which illuminate decision- and policymaking, and the relationships of key figures
Jack Lynch puzzled by request to repatriate James Joyce’s remains
Then taoiseach wished to know if Giorgio Joyce, the writer’s son, expected the government to pay
Who doesn’t savour another chance to demonise Generation Zed? (Don’t reach out to ‘correct’ my pronunciation)
‘Zee’ is an Americanism. So how come it seems to have been used in Ireland since Jack Lynch was taoiseach?
Don’t write off Gráinne Seoige. The original celebrity candidate was Jack Lynch
Lynch is a prime example of the problem with lazy monikers and a label that lumps all candidates with name recognition, but wildly varying backgrounds, together
President leads tributes to historian and author Dermot Keogh who has died aged 78
Former journalist wrote acclaimed biography of Jack Lynch and was Emeritus Professor of History at UCC
Planned Freedom of Cork recipient ‘stunned’ at award
Mary Crilly to be honoured for 40 years helping survivors of sexual and domestic abuse
Michael O’Kennedy obituary: A Fianna Fáil veteran who enjoyed long and varied career
Former minister, senator and European commissioner is remembered for his integrity
The Irish Times view on Ireland’s military neutrality: a new definition for a new era
A questioning of the current posture does not have to imply abandoning the aspiration to an independent, moral foreign policy that might be called “neutral”
All Star Gazing: Eileen and Moira Dunne explore a 50-year evolution in Irish society
Dunnes' father Mick was one of the creators of the idea on a wet day in Belfield
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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