Visions of Ireland: Diarmaid Ferriter’s guideWe have had a number of ‘mission statements’ over the past 100 years, but have any visions become reality?Sat Oct 29 2016 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Mary Robinson’s legacy in no need of a vanity projectThe former president should follow the practice of her predecessors and donate her papers to the National Library, the National Archives or a universitySat Oct 22 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Fine Gael’s adoration of Michael O’Leary is troublingRyanair boss is an ideological soulmate for the party that talks centre but thinks rightSat Oct 15 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter on Paul O’Connell’s ‘absorbing, compelling’ autobiographyIn ‘The Battle’, the Munster, Ireland and British and Irish Lions powerhouse has written an honest memoir of his battle-scarred life in rugbyWed Oct 12 2016 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish-Americans will not all vote as immigrantsThey may have experienced racism but Irish migrants have a history of attacking others tooSat Oct 08 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: There’s a big difference between visiting and belongingMary Mitchell O’Connor’s blunder latest in series of botched efforts to connect with emigrantsSat Oct 01 2016 - 07:00
Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland: Webs of Significance by Tom InglisBrowser reviewSat Oct 01 2016 - 00:49
Ireland: The Autobiography, edited by John Bowman, review: telling glimpsesSelected personal testimonies make for a picture of Irish life that undercuts ‘official’ historySat Sept 24 2016 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Self-service libraries are not true librariesMany library users need assistance and libraries have to be staffed by those with knowledge to be true to their missionFri Sept 23 2016 - 12:17
Diarmaid Ferriter: Be wary of shameless, populist water charge abolitionistsThe determination of politicians, not to do what is best for the environment or what is equitable, but what is most popular is undiminishedSat Sept 17 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Artane Band name a useful reminderAbuse survivor Mannix Flynn wants name changed, but is that such a good idea?Sat Sept 10 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland has bowed to US firms since 1950sDollar Exports Advisory Committee called for tax concession on profits from exportsFri Sept 02 2016 - 15:31
Higgins’s reflection on Civil War highlights edgy issuesPresident was right to speak of the need to recognise the atrocities committed by both sidesSat Aug 27 2016 - 01:02
Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland review: Sin, sexuality and alcoholDiarmaid Ferriter on Tom Inglis’s book unravelling why we Irish are the way we areSat Aug 20 2016 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: The hunger strike narrative is not as simple as it seemsOn this day 35 years ago, INLA hunger striker Michael Devine died in the Maze prison, the tenth and last of the hunger strikers to dieSat Aug 20 2016 - 01:25
Dr Edward Daly: The Bogside priest who didn’t want to rock the boat‘Ironically, given his profile during and after Bloody Sunday, Daly was wary of political involvement’Sat Aug 13 2016 - 00:03
Diarmaid Ferriter: Can my wife trust her Fitbit?I wonder where all this data goes. What is done with it and by whom?Sat Jul 23 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Tony Blair’s wretched legacyBlair believed he had a moral certainty and a purpose that was superior to the anti-war movementSat Jul 09 2016 - 00:44
Diarmaid Ferriter: Brexit may bring North and South closerYounger unionists keen to stay in EU may feel less trenchant about their unionismSat Jul 02 2016 - 01:00
Why the Brexit result should not surprise usThatcher insisted that it was highly damaging ‘to try to suppress nationhood’Sat Jun 25 2016 - 08:33
Diarmaid Ferriter: Trump’s rhetoric is straight from the 19th centuryArrogant self-certainty is central to Trump’s campaign, but it is more sinister than thatSat Jun 18 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Muhammad Ali v Éamon de Valera - the bout that never wasCivil servants kept the ‘boastful, bombastic man’ away from ageing presidentSat Jun 11 2016 - 00:29
Diarmaid Ferriter: Revisiting the ‘blue wall of silence’ on Garda corruptionMistakes made dealing with subversion in the 1970s should not now be made in reacting to gangland crimeSat Jun 04 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Government ready to love-bomb Irish voters in BritainThere is a shallowness and hypocrisy about the Irish Government’s current missionSat May 28 2016 - 12:24
Churchill & Ireland by Paul Bew review: close but no cigarWinston Churchill’s long, complex, contradictory relationship with the Irish is explored in a new book. The conclusions are interesting if not wholly credibleSat May 28 2016 - 01:23
Diarmaid Ferriter: We have lost our heritage along with the islandsOne Inishbofin fisherman’s battle is relevant in Brexit debateSat May 14 2016 - 01:04
Diarmaid Ferriter: I have nothing against baptismBut it is unacceptable that some un-baptised children are treated like second-class citizens in school choiceSat May 07 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Military archives open window on the revolutionary experienceThe State got a lot of things right during the 1916 commemorations, including the decision to invest in the Military ArchivesSat Apr 30 2016 - 01:00
Review: The Indignant Muse: Poetry and Songs of the Irish Revolution, 1887-1926This great, mammoth collection shows how Irish revolutionary writers sang from one hymn sheet, writes Diarmaid FeritterSat Apr 23 2016 - 02:58
Diarmaid Ferriter: James Downey took the long viewBut he believed the answers to Ireland’s problems lay in the here and nowSat Apr 23 2016 - 00:39
Diarmaid Ferriter: Right to strike is also part of the legacy of 1916The letters sent to Luas workers invokes the ghost of the 1913 Dublin lock outSun Apr 17 2016 - 08:33
Diarmaid Ferriter: Can Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil put national interest first?The challenge is to provide a contemporary response to the points addressed by Blythe in 1927 and Kelly in the 1970sSat Apr 09 2016 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: After commemoration comes the hard partIt is time to face up to the fact that we still have to make good on the promises of 1916Sat Apr 02 2016 - 01:00
The Stinging Fly: In the Wake of the Rising review: Rising above the romanceA visceral collection of pieces by modern Irish writers depicts another side of 1916Sat Mar 26 2016 - 03:04
Diarmaid Ferriter: Analysis of Trump’s success doesn’t go deep enough“Trump voters are a coalition of the dispossessed. The American system is not working for them”Fri Mar 25 2016 - 11:30
The Seven, by Ruth Dudley Edwards review: surveying the signatoriesInsightful studies of the men who signed the Proclamation are undermined by lack of rigourSat Mar 19 2016 - 03:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: What we can learn from women’s book clubsWe could all benefit from women discussing how we should be governedSat Mar 19 2016 - 01:00
Five songs to make you feel more IrishMissing home? Not feeling your Irishness? Here come Luke Kelly, Christy Moore and The Blades to the rescueThu Mar 17 2016 - 11:30
Diarmaid Ferriter: The 1916 proclamation has many uses and misusesThis week schoolchildren will be asked to draw up their own proclamationsSat Mar 12 2016 - 00:34
Diarmaid Ferriter: Wealth tax policies of the 1970s show TDs a way forward‘Richie Ryan had no time for well-heeled whingers who formerly owned posh department stores’Sat Mar 05 2016 - 01:00
There should be no dancing on the Labour Party’s graveThere may be ideological differences in next Dáil but not between Fianna Fáil and Fine GaelSun Feb 28 2016 - 14:32
Diarmaid Ferriter: Some rare cases of Irish political backboneOur politicians could benefit from reading some documents at the National ArchivesSat Feb 27 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: New efforts to dramatise and document 1916 disappointOlder programmes on 1916 may have been better at bringing Irish history to lifeSat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: A game of Mr and Mrs would liven up the electionRTE should do something interesting to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bishop and the nightie controversySat Feb 13 2016 - 02:13
Diarmaid Ferriter: Noisy campaign to ‘save’ the Rising street rings hollow‘There is ignorance behind the well-intentioned ‘Save Moore Street’ slogan’Sat Feb 06 2016 - 04:00
Opinion: meddling parents help third-level students fail test of independenceMy parents do not know the half of what I got up to in college, and that is how it should beSat Jan 30 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Eight years on and it is political business as usual in IrelandWhat we are witnessing are testosterone fuelled, arrogant assertions that the establishment have things under controlSat Jan 30 2016 - 00:31
Diarmaid Ferriter: Nothing new in the fuss about Pearse thinking he was Jesusin 1966 Fr Francis Shaw castigated the idea that Irish people in 1916 had been in need of redemption by the shedding of bloodSat Jan 09 2016 - 04:32
Freedom and the Fifth Commandment, by Brian Heffernan: raising holy hellThe tricky role of priests in the War of Independence is chronicled in this important, thorough but awfully expensive work, writes Diarmaid FerriterSat Jan 09 2016 - 01:38
Diarmaid Ferriter: Time running out to ‘drain the Shannon’Challenge for those who can do something is to respond more robustlySat Dec 12 2015 - 11:45
