In no-low-fares, no-internet 1990, being on scheme was just like ‘stepping into the world’

Our hero makes it clear that drivers do not renege on their responsibilities

Ahead of receiving an industry award at the IFTAs, Liam Neeson on the journey that saw him play Michael Collins, a Jedi and God

Unionist MP says hunger striker was a ‘terrorist’ claims book sends out wrong message

Thomas J Clarke, whose name appeared first among those of the signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, was an unbending Fenian – and a mordant, impish wit

‘Well, Lillie, hasn’t it been a full life and isn’t this a good end?’ the signatory to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic told his wife just before he was executed, in 1916

Joe Joyce mines The Irish Times Christmas archive from 1859 to 1952

Thousands of ecstatic fans hail All-Ireland winners on O’Connell Street

Gaffney will use his Sky Academy Arts Scholarship for a project about the Shackleton Mill in Lucan that will involve film, photography and a book

Washington event will mark 90 years of Irish-American relations

Adapting the 127-year-old grand dame of booksellers to the world of modern retailing is a big challenge, admits Conor Whelan

Mother Jones helped shape Connolly’s views on trade unionism, Cork festival will hear

Sinn Féin leader speaks at annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration in Co Kildare

Union chief says there is no justification for tax cuts for high-income groups

Project on 1913 Lockout cartoons wins ‘Threesis’ time-trial contest

Opinion: We cannot understand Ireland’s participation in the conflict without reference to its relationship with Britain

There have been changes since 1913, but some are still more equal than others . . .

Event began with a wreath laying at the statue of Jim Larkin by President

President Michael D Higgins will be the guest of honour at climax of centenary events

It’s 100 years since Yeats’s ‘September 1913’ was published in ‘The Irish Times’. Queer bedfellows they may be, but poems and papers have had a storied partnership

State and community events to mark 1913 Lockout centenary this weekend

Opinion: A doughty fighter who helped reorganise a union that represented 70,000 women

The documentary was weighed down by detail, but ‘Liveline’ brought the cult of Jim Larkin to life

George Bernard Shaw did not always fit in with post-independence Ireland and the National Theatre but ‘Major Barbara’ continues a sort of rapprochement

An interactive show to mark the 1913 Lockout is taking place in what was once a grand house but later became a tenement

Backbenchers shout support for Tánaiste on the sidelines

Royal visitor places wreaths at memorials to those who died in 1916 and two world wars

Paddy Donegan: 1921-2013

Siptu and the National College of Art and Design commissioned the art work to tell the story of the lockout, the Irish labour movement’s mythic touchstone

Volunteers of 1916 would be comforted to see the Republic in such capable hands