Ireland

How a Danish archaeologist’s book about ancient bodies found buried in peat bogs inspired some of the poet’s greatest work

A hugely ambitious exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art shows how a burgeoning sense of nationhood gripped many European countries in 1918

There are not many Gaelic loanwords in English, and the most common ones refer to specifically Scottish phenomena. But not all

The main stumbling block to Middle East peace is the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu

Ireland is a modern-day success story but some individuals have slipped through the cracks

It is hard to overestimate the damage the combination of Brexit, Johnson and Truss has done

The new women’s wing of the Limerick prison is a symbol of the view the best system is when there is the least amount of imprisonment

The iconic Dublin-based The Late, Late Show has its first Northern Irish presenter – just as old feuds and Brexit troubles boil up again...

There’s far more to Irish cinema than the pain and cliches of Colin Farrell’s dark comedy – as a recent Galway film festival showed

The rise of Sinn Féin in both the north and south brings a border poll closer. But coming together would be painful – and perhaps bloody

Forget the headlines. Children's reading comprehension is on the decline, and their books are to blame

Right wingers sniping at Joe Biden is one more example of their delusion about Britain’s importance to the US

The role of Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern during the talks, to this day, simply cannot be overstated

The story of the Senegal-born boxer the IRA couldn’t knock out – and his fatal drift into dissipation

The Taoiseach’s admission about Brexit errors is not the climbdown they think it is

A transfixing reflection on the plight of asylum seekers should be at the top of Suella Braverman’s watch list

A new generation of Gaeilgeóirí, or Irish language-speakers, are pushing for their rights in Northern Ireland in a cultural revival that could bring communities closer

Witty, cathartic and darkly funny, Sharon Horgan’s Irish revenge comedy proves hell hath no fury like a sister scorned

A century ago, the most famous Irishman in the world was shot in mysterious circumstances

Once colonised and abandoned, Ireland's capital is buzzy and booming. But whether it is truly European remains unresolved

The death of the travel writer Dervla Murphy marks the end of an era of great adventurers

In County Kerry, the recent rediscovery of the long-lost ship excited relatives of local hero Tom Crean

A new film is a landmark moment for both Irish cinema and the language more widely

BritBox's latest is a perfectly pitched and painfully funny new addition to the canon of works about Irish alcoholism

Obsession with the Protocol has handed the advantage to Sinn Féin

If Sinn Fein can reach across the old divides, victory in a border poll could be within its grasp

The left wing politician Clare Daly is no stranger to controversy, but this time her anti-war rhetoric is being used as ammunition by Russian media

Having reinvented itself, the party is now poised to redraw the political map of the island of Ireland

The author’s debut novel was born out of rage against the way mothers are expected to do it all. It’s about two characters battling pressure, trauma and grief. But, ultimately, it could be anyone’s story - and it is

The arrangement comes with many advantages, even for Unionists who hate it the most.  Northern Ireland’s Unionists are extremely angry right now, with some reason. A Conservative government and indeed movement with which many sympathised – just trying to ‘get Brexit done’ – has ended up building a trade barrier down the Irish Sea. That […]

Ireland’s former ambassador to the UK BOBBY McDONAGH says political tensions mean many of his compatriots have found it much tougher to lend their support this time When the president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, made a state visit to the UK in 2014, he expressed the hope that the England football team would “go all the […]

The fate of a Dublin building which was the setting for a James Joyce story raises interesting questions about property closely associated with literature There are few cities that come to literary life in the manner of Dublin on Bloomsday. June 16 every year, the date in 1904 on which the events of James Joyce’s Ulysses unfold, […]