Shatter should not use his religion to avoid confronting his own hubrisDiarmaid Ferriter: Few mourned his downfall but it has nothing to do with his Jewish faithSat Jun 08 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Can the Greens defy history?Party has momentum on climate change, but faces old questions of purity versus participationSat Jun 01 2019 - 02:00
A Shared Home Place review: A first-hand view of NI historySeamus Mallon details growing up in sectarian settings and his political careerSat May 25 2019 - 06:00
Tory nostalgia for Thatcher could propel Johnson into Downing StDiarmaid Ferriter: Thatcher’s victories came at the cost of deep inequalities and confusion about British identity that still resonateSat May 25 2019 - 02:00
Whatever these elections are about it’s not climate changeDespite its urgency, the environment is not a main theme for most European election candidatesSat May 18 2019 - 02:00
Broadband plan a missed chance to create a great public-owned utilityThe ESB was given responsibility for what was a national project in 1946 – and it workedSat May 11 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Allianz’s act of monumental hypocrisyDonogh O’Malley’s free education speech from 1966 is pillaged for profit by insurerSat May 04 2019 - 11:37
Thirty years retrieving the history of Irish womenMargaret MacCurtain embraced challenge of commission on status of womenSat Apr 27 2019 - 02:00
JJ Lee’s ‘total history’ of modern Ireland: Still required reading 30 years onHistorian’s classic account lacerated the country’s mediocrity and begrudgerySat Apr 20 2019 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: British took pragmatic approach to new Irish RepublicIreland Act saw the exit from the Commonwealth and a burst of pious hot air in the DáilSat Apr 20 2019 - 02:00
No clarity about EU rights of Irish citizens in North after BrexitDeSouza case highlights difficulties set to arise in asserting EU rightsSat Apr 13 2019 - 02:00
Cultural path from Edna O’Brien to Sally RooneyIreland has a long way from its 1960s ban on Country Girls to praise for Normal PeopleSat Apr 06 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: DUP needs to move from Ulster unionism to Irish unionismParty realists realise a shift in the wider balance of power requires a new strategySat Mar 30 2019 - 02:00
Fine Gael’s eulogies to Richie Ryan reek of revisionismParty grandees have conveniently forgotten how former minister was sidelinedSat Mar 23 2019 - 02:00
Brexit is really about escaping the emotional ordeal of EuropeBritain has always seen the EU as something to be endured rather than embracedSat Mar 16 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: SDLP now a pawn in southern politicsNorthern nationalists look to be locked outside the gates of powerSat Mar 09 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Handwriting and the loss of cogencyDigital technology is vital but it may be eroding communication functionsSat Mar 02 2019 - 02:00
Independence narrative must be freed of sweeping statementsDiarmaid Ferriter: State’s origin merits a complex and versioned historySat Feb 23 2019 - 02:00
Time for measured debate about the prospect of a united IrelandDiarmaid Ferriter: Fine Gael needs to back up its rhetoric on the NorthSat Feb 16 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Wacky thinking about the Border isn’t newThatcher made one visit to the Border, and viewed it ‘from the window of a high-speed helicopter’Sat Feb 09 2019 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: American concern about the Border is legitimateThe US played an important role in the peace process from 1977 onwardsSat Feb 09 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Britain cannot be left to solve the Border problem aloneHistory shows that insisting London comes up with a solution is not the answerSat Feb 02 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Robert Watt cannot have his cake and eat itCivil servant champions accountability but will not answer questions on children’s hospitalSat Jan 26 2019 - 02:00
‘I was not a human being’: A history of Irish childhoodNo Child 2020: Dark stains remain on the Irish conscience over the treatment of childrenSat Jan 19 2019 - 06:03
Diarmaid Ferriter: Tory Brexiteers should study War of IndependenceAbsolutism about the backstop will only drive Britain up a political cul-de-sacSat Jan 19 2019 - 02:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Government needs to smell the daffodils in DecemberPoliticians must stop waiting on ‘the appropriate time’ and finally act on climate changeSat Jan 12 2019 - 05:00
From Partition to Brexit review: timely reminder of government failingsDonnacha Ó Beacháin exposes the inconsistencies of Border policySat Jan 05 2019 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Roots of Dáil’s ideological sameness run deepThe first Dáil and its successors remained wedded to a conservative model of politicsSat Dec 29 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Even Christmas is not safe from crusading Twitter warriors‘Fairytale of New York’ row shows how the festive season is often a time of strifeSat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Wilful disregard for Ireland at Westminster is nothing new‘Breathtaking ignorance’ of Brexiteers on Border has deep roots in past affairsSat Dec 15 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Camogie has survived, but it has not triumphedUnesco status for the game is welcome, but it remains shoddily treated compared with hurlingSat Dec 08 2018 - 05:00
Michael Collins: The Man and the Revolution review – A knotty subject expertly unpickedThis robustly demystifying account of Collins’ legacy is a book of great originalitySat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: The multilayered genius of Martyn TurnerThe cartoonist thinks in words not pictures, which is why his satire carries such powerSat Dec 01 2018 - 05:00
Mark War of Independence by reinstating history as core subjectState must ensure study of history does not become class-basedSat Nov 24 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: North was always treated differently to rest of UK‘Ulster says no’ stance betrays ignorance of British and Irish historySat Nov 17 2018 - 05:00
Ireland’s complex relationship with the first World WarDiarmaid Ferriter: Thousands are still haunted by the conflict, but others view it as not ‘ours’Sat Nov 10 2018 - 05:00
Peter Casey’s childhood brush with civil rights did not instill empathySome Derry activists are still campaigning for social justice in their native hinterlandSat Nov 03 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Nuns’ side of story needs to be heardSilence and selective recounting of history reinforces caricature of ‘bad nuns’Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
Still plenty of water in the well of the Troubles era for writers to draw onAnna Burns should pay no more heed to politically motivated criticisms than Heaney or McGahernSat Oct 20 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland’s position on climate change is a very dark jokeThe gulf between the Government’s rhetoric and action has grown to farcical proportionsSun Oct 14 2018 - 13:07
It’s hard to know what the DUP is about anymoreArlene Foster does not seem to have contributed to the welfare of the North for a long timeSat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00
The island priests: piety and poitín on the edge of IrelandNowhere was the relationship between the clergy and parishoners more sharply observed than on offshore islandsSat Sept 29 2018 - 05:30
Diarmaid Ferriter: England has always used the Border for its own gainTory Brexiteers still fail to grasp the complexity and centrality of the issueSat Sept 29 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Political concepts inform role of presidentPresidency free to promote strong sense of justice not always State-approvedSat Sept 22 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Role of women in the home remains enigmaConstitution’s article 41.2 has never been tested in terms of gender rightsSat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00
‘Leo Varadkar: A Very Modern Taoiseach’ is shallow, flimsy and exaggeratedDiarmaid Ferriter on a premature analysis that fails to prove its pointSat Sept 08 2018 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Lotto price rises have not helped those in needFar too little focus goes on how lottery funds are distributedSat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: What ever happened to free education in Ireland?Ireland has a long established ‘educational market’ with middle and upper classes free to migrate to private service provision to make up for deficits in the public systemSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish Catholicism is rooted in class prejudiceThe Catholic Church’s historical mix of charity and snobbery gave rise to crueltySat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: ‘Cultural Catholic’ is a euphemism for lazy hypocriteAmid Church failures to confront decades of abuse, Ireland still has devoted believersSat Aug 18 2018 - 05:00
