Is there such a thing as right-wing art?
A durable national identity cannot be asserted into being
Ireland
Tuesday
Tuesday
Why does Irish art avoid the Troubles?
There is something truly pathological about the taboo given that Irish art is awash with politics
Wednesday
Who actually gets hurt by sanctioning Russia?
Complex globalized financial structures are capable of spreading damage everywhere
Thursday
How to do St. Patrick’s Day like an Irish American
You needn’t travel to Ireland to celebrate its saint’s day
Sunday
John F. Kennedy’s trip worth remembering
His 1963 visit to Germany, Ireland and the UK spawned some of his most memorable and impactful moments
Friday
Why the Feinstein row will worry the White House
Plus: Welcome back, Mitch!
Thursday
Does Joe Biden have CTE from rugby?
The president appears ignorant of the concussion risk posed by the sport he played in college
Wednesday
Joe Biden’s Ireland trip is all about Joe Biden
Plus: Glenn Youngkin, fundraising machine
Monday
A literary pilgrimage to Dublin
Every Dublin trip should end with drinks, live music and cheeky cigarettes with friends new and old
Monday
The Oirish Question
On the ‘stage Irishness’ of Martin McDonagh’s Banshees of Inisherin
Wednesday
The spy novelist who became an Irish nationalist
Remembering Erskine Childers 100 years later
Friday
Warning: this book may make you like Bono
Surrender is full of wry asides on fame, faith and self-flagellation
Thursday
The cult of Sally Rooney
Not a godlike millennial sage, but a talented author at the start of a promising career
Sunday
Keem Bay, Ireland: the best beach in the world
Beware: Keem Bay is beguiling
Tuesday
Stop the global tax!
The Biden administration’s ‘multilateralism’ could make ‘America First’ look positively magnanimous
Wednesday
Biden cares about borders — as long as they’re Irish
The emerging signature of this presidency isn’t radicalism and ruthlessness: it’s incompetence and unreality
Thursday
Did Ed Balls mean to make a documentary on the joys of Trump’s America?
The former British Shadow Chancellor’s new documentary is more favourable of Trumpsters than anyone at the BBC could have ever imagined.
Thursday
Social conservatism is dead
Just before Ireland voted overwhelmingly to end the country’s constitutional ban on abortion, Catholics in the fishing village of Clogherhead could be seen storming out of Sunday mass halfway through the service. Why? Their parish priest had come on too strong. He had not only ordered them how to vote but also supplied grisly details of an abortion procedure. Presumably some of them voted to repeal the eighth amendment. The ‘Yes’ campaign couldn’t have won its two-thirds majority without the support of practising Catholics. Very few of these, we can assume, were militantly pro-choice. Instead, they were reassured by promises that any future law would be limited in its impact
Thursday
Ireland’s abortion referendum has been horrifically one-sided
It will, as one pro-life campaigner told me, take an act of God to swing the Irish referendum for the No side tomorrow. I’m all for referendums but this one has been so wildly unbalanced as to make the Brexit campaign look almost effete in its regard for impartiality and fair play. The polls suggest a win for the Yes side, on repealing the eighth amendment to the Irish constitution which protects the right to life of the unborn – something around the 44-32 per cent margin according to the last Irish Times poll. It’s a big deal, abortion. But there is not one political party that represents the No side
