America Letter: One hundred years ago a tour failed to co-opt official America to Ireland’s cause

Mixed-race children taken from Congolese mothers and fostered by Catholic orders

The sales feature a selection of nude styles, from the stark anatomical realism of John Luke’s Nude Male to Louis le Brocquy’s subtle Being

What’s happening with the proposed new ’League of Nations’ and how will it impact on Irish rugby?

Irish republicans sought discussion on independence at peace negotiations

Sean T Ó Ceallaigh and George Gavan Duffy attempted to win France over to the cause

How the war began and how it progressed over the course of 1919

Knowledge of the perilous condition of war front was kept secret from German people

Government advised it should largely leave War of Independence centenaries to local communities

New illustrated book celebrates 150th anniversary of Methody in Northern capital

Higgins calls for ‘Republic of inclusivity, love and joy’ as he is inaugurated for second term

A cold reception is instantly warmed when people realise where I’m from

As with every supposedly immutable law, secession for every group that lays claim to nationhood does not fit every circumstance

Hermann Göring listed as first of Count Gerald O’Kelly’s ‘many German clients’

Analysis: The outgoing Chief Justice has reached the end of a remarkable career

Trump will learn there are no easy answers to the Syrian conflict

World leaders must act together to end any such violation of human dignity

Governments have a long history of interest in their citizens’ diets

There is precedent for Taoiseach taking on foreign affairs challenge but he must bring coherence and planning

Events marking 1916 part of Decade of Centenaries which respects all traditions

UK foreign secretary calls for investigation but says ‘we cannot commit to a no-fly zone’

Almost 80 years after his death, Berlin is acknowledging one of its most celebrated sons

Counterfactual speculation about the timing of the Rising puts 1916 into its proper international context as a huge stimulus of political change in Europe and the world

Sub-contracting responsibility for refugees to Ankara sees refugees as a threat to be kept out, not human beings in need of shelter

Young people are, by every measure, a marginalised group in Irish society

Maureen Dowd: the 28th president of the US was an unlikely lothario

The current Supreme Court is composed of eight judges with different qualities and backgrounds

He was first a businessman, then a diplomat and finally the moving spirit behind the creation of a political Europe