Mick Wallace’s son a chip off the old block when it comes to Italian restaurants
Plus: Keith Duffy in a falling out over knees, Enda Kenny artfully backs a winner, and it turns out RTÉ and Sinn Féin can feel at home with each other after all
Seán Lemass
Story of car assembly in Ireland takes a curiously personal turn
Bob Montgomery’s comprehensive history of car making in the State is required reading for any Irish car nut
‘The first of its kind’: Reporting the first Young Scientists’ Exhibition in 1965
For the 60th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, we pulled out the report on the first ever winners
Dermot Ryan, businessman who recorded Seán Lemass tapes, dies aged 95
The 23 interviews over 22 hours of tape are closest thing former taoiseach left to an autobiography
Clear turtle with cheese straws? Bizarre and wonderful dishes on old Irish menus
My parents attended a lot of beautiful and baffling dinners around Co Clare in the 1960s and 1970s
Fintan O’Toole: RTÉ has grappled with the same dilemma since the 1960s
Broadcaster has grappled with the same dilemma since the 1960s: to be a national jukebox or a national broadcaster
John Bowman: Even during RTÉ's darkest hour, its public service ethos has prevailed
Critics of RTÉ should not ascribe the blame for its most spectacular fall from grace solely to the hybrid funding model
Is Ireland Neutral? The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality: A timely read
Conor Gallagher’s lively book seeks to amplify questions around our defence policy
Rite & Reason: Changes to Constitution on women in the home first mooted 27 years ago
If the priests took a conservative view of where a woman’s place should be, so did others – including The Irish Times
Brendan Behan’s papers are in New Jersey. Surely they belong in his native city?
Working-class Dublin was intrinsic to the creative output of a highly individual writer who was born a century ago this week
Coalition leaders must confront those who would tear down the State bequeathed by Michael Collins
Sinn Féin is trying to bamboozle us into believing that the IRA’s most recent and bloodiest terror campaign should receive retrospective justification
Dublin media interested in North only during crises, Taoiseach suggests
Two decades of Belfast Agreement have not fostered greater understanding between two parts of Ireland, Micheál Martin says
Despair, defiance and democracy: Ireland in 1922
Part of the challenge of this year’s centenary is to confront the silences around 1922
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
Fond farewells at funeral of FF stalwart Michael O’Kennedy
Taoiseach Micheál Martin delivers graveside oration for former Fianna Fáil minister
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”
Tragically, we nearly made it through the decade of centenaries
Newton Emerson: Higgins turned highbrow rhetoric into critique and controversy
Public invited to take a rare peek inside the US embassy in Dublin
Much-loved but fortified building will be part of Open House this year
Albert Reynolds: Razzmatazz politician and supreme negotiator
Showman and dealmaker defied detractors when he brokered peace in North
Des O’Malley obituary: Key political player thought by some as ‘best taoiseach Ireland never had’
Limerick politician split from Fianna Fáil to form influential Progressive Democrats
Leaving Cert history: For the first time in history, history students had time
Students would have been happy with ‘broad and fair’ paper, say teachers
Taoiseach criticises ‘shameful’ lack of memorial to Seán Lemass in Dublin
Martin pays tribute to former taoiseach who ‘set a European course for our history’
Senator calls for Dublin Airport to be named after Seán Lemass
Call comes ahead of 50th anniversary of former taoiseach’s death on May 11th
Fintan O’Toole: I got a mortgage at 24 – unthinkable for today’s young adults
The great stabilisers of conservative Ireland – priests and property – are gone
Western Wail – Frank McNally on ‘grigging’, Mayo-baiting bus brands, and John le Carré’s homecoming
An Irishman’s Diary
Michael Cronin – last surviving son of Kitty Kiernan was keen sportsman and loyal friend
An Appreciation
Fintan O'Toole: The State has never got its head around the pandemic
Openness is so fundamental to us that we have failed to shut off the island from danger
We’ve had decades of poverty, stifled dreams and lives unlived. But look on the bright side
RTÉ’s The Way We Were successfully dusted off the Reeling in the Years formula
Miriam Lord: Why did the secretary general cross the road? Because he’s worth it
Forget the Fitbit – this short stroll is bringing one public servant a very healthy salary boost
Lessons from history – An Irishman’s Diary on Donogh O’Malley
Introduction of free secondary education was a key moment
Likely to be second quarter of 2021 before differences from vaccine seen – Varadkar
Taoiseach says there are grounds to be ‘more hopeful’ about Brexit this week
How Ireland’s relationship with the UK has evolved with our role in in the EU
An Irishman’s Diary: British archives throw light on negotiations between Ireland and Britain during second World War
Ireland would join Nato if price of joining EEC, TK Whitaker said
RIA historic documents: Monnet questioned if Ireland could face demands of free trade
Macabre exhumation of Roger Casement’s remains documented
Irish diplomat gave account of London dig after ‘49 years in a waterlogged grave’
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of their wounds
Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle
32 people were killed on Bloody Sunday, or died later of wounds received that day
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of wounds received
Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company
Death of Nicholas Leonard, founder editor of Irish Times business section
He became Ireland’s first full-time business journalist when recruited in 1963 aged 23
Sudden closure of Sisters of Charity homes take staff, residents, and nuns by surprise
Anxiety at moving elderly residents during pandemic and no redundancy for staff
Diarmaid Ferriter: What Micheál Martin can learn from Seán Lemass
FF founding father’s observations on leadership and political psychology are still relevant
Micheál Martin to return Michael Collins portrait to Taoiseach’s office
Hanging Collins and De Valera pictures together symbolises end of Civil War politics
Time to be ambitious. We need a Department of Higher Education and Research
We need to create globally-competitive universities that perform ground-breaking research which drives innovation economies
Why Sinn Féin will not call the State by its name
Linguistic issue would pose a dilemma for a Sinn Féin minister or taoiseach
Civility as a civic and political virtue is in short supply
A fundamental ingredient in our political culture needs to be changed
‘What happens if I get sick?’ Health the core issue for Waterford voters
Election 2020: Locals keen to see who delivers on rural problems they think are being ignored
John FitzGerald: The shift from specialist to generalist skills in public service is a mistake
Downgrading of specialist skills has contributed to policy failures in the 2000s
Varadkar issues election date challenge to Fianna Fáil leader
Taoiseach discussed timing of election with FG Ministers at private meeting this week
In a Word . . . migration
Lemass was taoiseach, everything was changing, when we moved to Ballaghaderreen
Woman, whose parents were both in the GPO in 1916, dies at the age of 97
Sheila O’Leary shared the unique distinction with the former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald
Opium armchair, porcelain pipe: bygone-era drug paraphernalia at Adam’s
Ritual objects of tea taking and opium smoking on show in Asian Art sale
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