Seán Lemass

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

On its 90th anniversary remembering the Irish Press

An Irishman’s Diary

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

Soaring ambition – Mary O’Rourke on a way to commemorate Seán Lemass

An Irishwoman’s Diary

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

‘You have only to say the word’ – An Irishman’s Diary on Tom Barry and former revolutionaries

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 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

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

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

Two-Story Building – Frank McNally on a classic of 20th-century Irish architecture, foreshadowed by James Joyce

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

United Ireland: De Valera’s secret plan for unification

The taoiseach wanted to bring Ireland into the Commonwealth with the queen as its head

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