The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special RelationshipDerek Scally digs deep to understand rather than condemn collusion and betrayal of faithSun Apr 04 2021 - 06:00
Irish politicians should lay off social mediaDiarmaid Ferriter: TDs quick to criticise Twitter and Facebook but they need to look at their own useFri Apr 02 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Peace process offers lessons for those who seek united IrelandWhat is needed at very least is a North-South Citizen’s Assembly over the long termFri Mar 26 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Biden's words likely to surpass deeds on IrelandUS foreign policy focused more on China, climate change, Russia and Middle EastFri Mar 19 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: The issue of illegal adoptions will not go awayThe truth of this system must be confronted, but instead the Government plays for timeFri Mar 12 2021 - 01:00
Women and the Irish Revolution: Vital and valuable insightsBook review: By highlighting multiple female experiences, these essays serve to broaden and complicate the narrative of the Irish revolutionary decadeSun Mar 07 2021 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Illegally adopted being left without identityIreland’s commissions and inquiries into institutionalisation are failing survivorsFri Mar 05 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: We are being infantilised on Covid-19 by an immature GovernmentTaoiseach telling us we are ‘remarkably resilient’ is just another example of thatFri Feb 26 2021 - 01:00
The challenge presented by British disinterest in the North is as big as everGenerating North-South dialogue post-Brexit will be tortuousFri Feb 19 2021 - 01:00
Parnell and His Times: A worthwhile journey, if not the promised routeBook review: The chapters of this sprawling volume do not cohere, yet there is much to be admiredThu Feb 18 2021 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: We are not remotely all in this togetherVaccine nationalism can only prolong the pandemic and its consequencesFri Feb 12 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Same old orange card, same old mistakesTo manage Brexit fallout, unionists must ditch traditional, militant siege tacticsFri Feb 05 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Border is a Covid factor that must be graspedTo suggest nothing can be done about it is an awesome admission of political failureFri Jan 29 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: McQuaid’s shadow hangs over mother and baby homesHis defiant assertions about Irish Catholicism stand as monuments to a damaging delusionFri Jan 22 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Efforts to avoid ‘public scandal’ created the greatest scandal of allVitriol that emanated from the altar remarkable in its unvarnished hatredFri Jan 15 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Covid-19 vaccination a test for StateChallenge not just about roll out but convincing people of meritsFri Jan 08 2021 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Heaney’s work must not be politically hijackedLike McGahern and O’Brien, the poet should not be ambushed for commemorationsFri Dec 18 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Recalibrating Anglo-Irish relations is going to be trickyCan Britain and Ireland escape a common destiny?Fri Dec 11 2020 - 01:00
Ireland is more obsessed with Britain’s royals than they are with IrelandDiarmuid Ferriter: Our appetite for the TV series The Crown shows no sign of dimmingFri Dec 04 2020 - 01:00
Saving the State: intimate if flattering inside story of Fine GaelBook review: authors benefit from access to key figures but result is too rosy a portraitMon Nov 30 2020 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Counting fatalities from the Irish revolutionNew book explores numbers killed by political violence and why they diedFri Nov 27 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Bloody Sunday 1920 changed British attitudes to IrelandBacklash left IRA reeling and enhanced British intelligence. Then talk turned to truceSat Nov 21 2020 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Farcical Covid strategy does not bode well for a ‘Shared Island’Coronavirus restrictions are worth little if North and South continue on divergent pathsFri Nov 20 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Whatever happens next the judiciary is badly damagedWe have no precedent for the successful impeachment of a judgeFri Nov 13 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Demagogue Trump has exploited longstanding fissures in USEven with a narrow Joe Biden victory there will be no neat resolutionFri Nov 06 2020 - 01:00
Thinking behind the National Archive needs to be revisedDiarmaid Ferriter: Records of Mother and Baby Home inquiry have raised wider questions about access to archival materialFri Oct 30 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: We have been infantilised with promises of ChristmasGovernment has promised us a slice of Christmas if we improve our ‘behaviour’Fri Oct 23 2020 - 09:05
Diarmaid Ferriter: The North-South incoherence in facing Covid-19 is ridiculousIt is absurd that, even with new stricter measures North and South, there is insufficient uniformityFri Oct 16 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Clashing views must not obscure Covid-19 crisisHolohan versus Government narrative misplaced as unanimity on plan elusiveFri Oct 09 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Fianna Fáil identity crisis driven by pretenders Sinn FéinCould reviving social partnership resuscitate the ailing catch-all party, wrongfoot FG and see off SF?Fri Oct 02 2020 - 01:00
Mary McAleese memoir: Fascinating, but not the full storyBook review: in Here’s the Story, the former president tells a lot, but not all, about her extraordinary careerSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: My advice to Government – stop hiring advisersIs there an inbuilt acceptance that Ministers must be surrounded by a cohort of mentors?Fri Sept 25 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Those in Downing Street have no regard for the North or the DUPBoris Johnson just the latest British poltician to use unionism to advance his own agendaFri Sept 18 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: We must consider NPHET may be wrongHave we focused too narrowly on medical and scientific view of emergency team?Fri Sept 11 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: There is little middle ground debating the pub trade in IrelandThe centrality of the pub to Irish life is a cause of celebration and anguishFri Sept 04 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Former judge inquiring into a judge over Clifden event seems bizarreSeparation of powers aside, we expect our Supreme Court judges to use good judgementFri Aug 28 2020 - 08:37
Diarmaid Ferriter: Marking centenary of ‘bloody awful country’ a tall orderNorth’s creation was admission of defeat and commemoration must be soberFri Aug 21 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Island mentality and threat of infectionOffshore communities have mixed feelings about Covid-19’s geographic accessFri Aug 14 2020 - 01:00
Making Ryan’s Daughter: Booze, blues and tantrums in DinglePaul Benedict Rowan’s book does David Lean and most of the 1970 movie’s cast no favoursSun Jul 19 2020 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: What Micheál Martin can learn from Seán LemassFF founding father’s observations on leadership and political psychology are still relevantFri Jul 17 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: How can you be Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and Gaeltacht?The arts have long been starved of funding and given a minor role in government policyFri Jul 10 2020 - 06:27
Diarmaid Ferriter: Western People's hysterical response over ministers will take some beatingPaper sees region’s overlooked politicians as victims in battle raging since 17th centuryFri Jul 03 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Complaints over northern Greens are partitionist and ridiculousDavid Norris should know better than to query role of party’s branch in the NorthFri Jun 26 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Best and worst of times through prism of Italia ’90A changing country fixated by exploits in Italy and grappling with political turmoil at homeSat Jun 20 2020 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Opponents of multi-party coalition are deludedGreen Party seems to have learned little from its last time in governmentFri Jun 19 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Begin with pulling down statues, but then what?A protest can do violence to historical context, messy, layered indentities and inheritancesFri Jun 12 2020 - 01:00
Greens need to remain focused and drive a hard bargainDiarmaid Ferriter: Price of power will be compromise and a divided membershipFri Jun 05 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: It’s still hard to rise above the emotion of the War of IndependenceIt invokes such partiality that, 100 years later, untangling its knotted legacy is not easyWed Jun 03 2020 - 00:00
Universities are preoccupied with market growth as if educators were stocks and sharesDiarmaid Ferriter: Even before Covid-19 third level faced threats from market-based ideasFri May 29 2020 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Normal People sets the sexual bar too highToday’s television sex is far too polished and sophisticatedFri May 22 2020 - 01:00
