Mick Wallace’s son a chip off the old block when it comes to Italian restaurants
Plus: Keith Duffy in a falling out over knees, Enda Kenny artfully backs a winner, and it turns out RTÉ and Sinn Féin can feel at home with each other after all
Seán Lemass
Story of car assembly in Ireland takes a curiously personal turn
Bob Montgomery’s comprehensive history of car making in the State is required reading for any Irish car nut
‘The first of its kind’: Reporting the first Young Scientists’ Exhibition in 1965
For the 60th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, we pulled out the report on the first ever winners
Dermot Ryan, businessman who recorded Seán Lemass tapes, dies aged 95
The 23 interviews over 22 hours of tape are closest thing former taoiseach left to an autobiography
Clear turtle with cheese straws? Bizarre and wonderful dishes on old Irish menus
My parents attended a lot of beautiful and baffling dinners around Co Clare in the 1960s and 1970s
Fintan O’Toole: RTÉ has grappled with the same dilemma since the 1960s
Broadcaster has grappled with the same dilemma since the 1960s: to be a national jukebox or a national broadcaster
John Bowman: Even during RTÉ's darkest hour, its public service ethos has prevailed
Critics of RTÉ should not ascribe the blame for its most spectacular fall from grace solely to the hybrid funding model
Is Ireland Neutral? The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality: A timely read
Conor Gallagher’s lively book seeks to amplify questions around our defence policy
Rite & Reason: Changes to Constitution on women in the home first mooted 27 years ago
If the priests took a conservative view of where a woman’s place should be, so did others – including The Irish Times
Brendan Behan’s papers are in New Jersey. Surely they belong in his native city?
Working-class Dublin was intrinsic to the creative output of a highly individual writer who was born a century ago this week
Coalition leaders must confront those who would tear down the State bequeathed by Michael Collins
Sinn Féin is trying to bamboozle us into believing that the IRA’s most recent and bloodiest terror campaign should receive retrospective justification
Dublin media interested in North only during crises, Taoiseach suggests
Two decades of Belfast Agreement have not fostered greater understanding between two parts of Ireland, Micheál Martin says
Despair, defiance and democracy: Ireland in 1922
Part of the challenge of this year’s centenary is to confront the silences around 1922
Michael O’Kennedy obituary: A Fianna Fáil veteran who enjoyed long and varied career
Former minister, senator and European commissioner is remembered for his integrity
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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