The essential mission of anyone who takes the past seriously is “to make human understanding more profound”

Moygashel fire is bitterly ironic given how central the migrant experience is to Ulster’s history

Presidential elections generate an acute interest in who and what we would like to symbolise our Republic

Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top reads for the holidays

There’s an opportunity to turn it into a building that can generate pride, and improve the perception of a space widely regarded as deficient and devoid of imagination

Researchers in the 1930s found that in some cases it was acceptable to beat a childless wife for being ‘barren’. Fifty years on, there’s no happy ending

AIB said this week it owes an ‘immense debt of gratitude’ to the Irish taxpayer. Indeed it does

What was deemed politically unacceptable by British imperialists a century ago is permitted today at hideous cost to the people of Gaza

Airlines will not reduce their carbon footprint if they dramatically increase the number of flights, whatever they say about cutting emissions per passenger

England is accustomed to seeing rivers as a filthy threat, but we can’t let the same thing happen here

The relentless focus on trade has skewed any determination to confront the terrifying echoes of the 1930s. Europeans should be much more vocal about it

Committed socialist and feminist lived through a time when attitudes to women in Irish society were decidedly narrow

Expect book burnings soon to further scapegoat the “enemies of the nation”

Ireland has no equivalent of the Swedish concept of Allemansrätten (everyone’s right to roam) or the 225,000 km of public rights of way in England and Wales

The personal experience he vividly outlined on RTÉ television in 2009 was part of the reason Francis’s visit to Ireland nine years later was so different from the previous Irish papal visit

There are too many wrecked teachers out there; too many hate their jobs; too many depart prematurely

In a country where many utility companies treat their customers with contempt and consumers pay 42 per cent more for goods and services, life admin can be eviscerating

Church leaders are at last embracing much-needed change

The language has become coarser but it is striking how fuelled by testosterone the Dáil has always been

Ireland was never pure, but our 21st century ‘new order’ - with women human trafficked into the sex trade and much focus on toxic masculinity - is alarming