Ireland

The Irish writer with the ‘blazingly daring’ style is back. But don’t call her the next James Joyce

Daniel O’Connell, the 19th-century Kerryman, embodies Ireland’s discharge from the straps of England more than any other historical figure

Bucking global trends, voters kept the incumbents in charge and Sinn Féin out of power in the general election. But Trump may be about to throw a spanner in the works.

Ireland’s pubs are struggling but a music festival brings people to the streets

How we treat our land is revealed in its freshwaters and the anglers are there to notice it first

Daring choices are vindicated in the writer’s brilliant new novel about a chess player, his brother and their family

Legal battles are ongoing to protect the wild fish populations in the loughs of the west of Ireland from the threat of salmon farming

At anti-immigrant gatherings across Ireland one thing stands out: the youngsters

Did the Gaza encampments that sprung up across British universities achieve anything?

Sinn Féin’s target demographic now blames the party for cheerleading Ireland’s open-border mentality, and its popularity has plummeted

Ireland is going through a golden literary age – but Sinéad Gleeson’s extraordinary debut stands out from the rest

The outgoing Taoiseach ran rings around Boris Johnson as he made peace a priority

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