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Ireland
Books & arts
Spy, accomplice, ghostwriter
Zora Simic
21 June 2024
How did people go missing in a historian’s family?
Books & arts
Oh, Sir Roger!
Jim Davidson
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
Correspondents
Mayo Joe, son of Ballina
Stuart Ward
15 April 2023
Did the American president’s deeply personal sense of Irish history meet the moment?
National affairs
The Queen is dead! Long live the president?
Liam Weeks
19 October 2022
Ireland provides one model for how a presidency can work within a parliamentary system
Correspondents
The centre that couldn’t hold
Liam Weeks
13 February 2020
We know what has gone from Irish politics, but it isn’t yet clear what will take its place
Books & arts
From the ranks of the dead
Ray Cassin
29 January 2019
Books
| How much have the Irish contributed to an Australian identity? The debate continues
Correspondents
Ireland’s new body politics
David Hayes
22 June 2018
Ireland’s vote to legalise abortion is having a percussive impact on its neighbours
Correspondents
A leader for the times?
Liam Weeks
16 June 2017
Ireland’s dizzying rate of change is personified by a new prime minister who heads a precarious administration
Correspondents
Theresa May’s gauntlet election
David Hayes
19 April 2017
Brexit’s titanic tests have forced the prime minister’s hand
Correspondents
Ireland’s evolutionary past
David Hayes
16 June 2016
Dublin’s commemoration of the Easter 1916 rising against British rule had an inclusive message but a political undertow, says
David Hayes
International
Ireland’s voters have spoken, but what did they say?
Liam Weeks
8 March 2016
The Irish election failed to produce a clear result, writes
Liam Weeks
in Cork. A historic realignment of parties could be the most likely consequence
Correspondents
Ireland and Britain: neighbours in transit
David Hayes
31 August 2014
Dublin and London are finding common diplomatic ground just as politics is sweeping them off their feet
Books & arts
Mobile fortunes
Jock Given
16 February 2012
Denis O’Brien’s story helps explain what went wrong for the Celtic Tiger
Correspondents
Independents’ days
Liam Weeks
21 September 2010
Liam Weeks
writes from Ireland, where as many as 40 per cent of governments have relied on the support of independents in parliament
Books & arts
Steering blithely towards the rocks
Judith Brett
18 February 2010
Fintan O’Toole’s gripping account of the fall of the Celtic Tiger
Correspondents
From Celtic Tiger to paper tiger?
Cormac Ó Gráda
15 April 2009
The Irish economy is in crisis, writes
Cormac Ó Gráda
, but not all the gains of two decades of growth will be lost