Irish Citizen Army chief James Connolly co-opted a member of IRB Military Council1916/2016: a miscellanyMon Jan 04 2016 - 01:00
IRB votes to fight at ‘earliest date’; those who perished are honoured in Dublin1916/2016: a miscellanyFri Jan 01 2016 - 13:24
World View: US needs to get terrorism threat into perspectiveAmercians are 59 times more likely to die of autoerotic asphyxiation than in terrorist attackSat Dec 12 2015 - 01:17
Patrick Smyth: Republicans still waiting for mainstream candidate to depose TrumpMost analysts still insist that Trump’s lead in the Republican field will pass as the race gets more serious. But he has undoubtedly transformed the nature of the election debateSat Nov 28 2015 - 03:30
Dragons Stirring: Six months to the Rising‘The dragons of the past have not died and were only sleeping. Recent events have stirred them’ – George (AE) RussellWed Nov 18 2015 - 05:00
Patrick Smyth: Houston bathrooms are the latest battle ground for LGBT rightsNon discrimination law challenged over fears transgender women will use ladies toiletsSat Oct 31 2015 - 04:08
Patrick Smyth: Migrants least welcome in European countries that need them the mostHungary and Poland will see their populations fall by 8 and 6 per cent respectively by 2035Sat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
Worldview: Echoes of North in Colombia peace dealThe hope is that, like Northern Ireland, Colombia will swallow the bitter pill of “amnesty” in order to grasp the bigger prize of peace.Sat Oct 03 2015 - 02:15
Patrick Smyth: Obama faces tough battle to get Iran deal through Congress‘While several of the Republican presidential hopefuls have vowed they would repudiate the deal on day one of their presidency, history would suggest that wiser counsel would prevail’Sat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00
Trump centre stage in debate, but can he hold the limelight?Patrick Smyth: Battle for Republican candidacy now heads for the ‘invisible primary’Sat Aug 08 2015 - 10:38
Patrick Smyth: The battle for a better Europe is not lost‘Not surprisingly the last few years has seen the rise throughout Europe of nationalist “Out, out, out” forces, although yet to find substantial base here’Sat Jul 25 2015 - 04:10
Supreme Court’s liberal ‘judicial putsch’ has Republicans in a frenzyConservatives challenge judicial supremacySat Jul 11 2015 - 01:00
Euro zone integration must go ahead, but not as a technocratic projectFive Presidents’ report has been overshadowed by crisis talks over GreeceSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:01
Patrick Smyth: 800 years of Magna Carta – its legacy lives on‘The Magna Charta Hiberniae, “son of” Magna Carta, slightly amended and issued for Ireland on November 12th, 1216, is part of the retained law of the land’Sat Jun 13 2015 - 02:00
Patrick Smyth: French left facing unpalatable choices‘The tension between the republican, secular state, caricatured as Paris and its elites vs rural France, is very much alive in its politics and daily life’Sat May 30 2015 - 03:00
Patrick Smyth: UK is on wrong path with human rights changes‘Would Westminster legislate to allow the writ of the ECHR continue to prevail in Northern Ireland and Scotland while not in the rest of the UK, creating two legal rights regimes within the UK?’Mon May 18 2015 - 18:09
What if ... the voting system was fair?Proportional representation in the UK election would have enshrined the necessity for coalitionFri May 08 2015 - 15:30
The first World War: “Never such innocence again”The Great War transformed our understanding of war, forcing writers to describe the world in new ways, and in a new languageTue May 05 2015 - 01:00
Patrick Smyth: Ireland’s immigrants sent home €1.8 billion last yearRemittances tell a story of sacrifice, families divided and massive bank penaltiesSat Apr 18 2015 - 10:41
Patrick Smyth: A heretical thought – let UK leave the EUIreland must assess and analyse Brexit implications with rigorous logicSat Apr 04 2015 - 01:00
Patrick Smyth: Netanyahu will deliver on stonewalling instead of peace‘He told the crowd he would work to take care of the welfare of all Israeli citizens’Sat Mar 21 2015 - 02:15
Chicago mayor race: Democrat v Democrat in ideological battle on the leftJesús “Chuy” García takes on Rahm Emanuel in race foreshadowing White House battleSat Mar 07 2015 - 01:00
Patrick Smyth: Controversy over so-called ‘three-parent’ gene therapy‘If the House of Lords backs the licensing of the procedure the UK will be the first state in the world to embrace the new technique’Sat Feb 07 2015 - 00:01
Testing times for Europe, as far right move closer to centre-stageThis week mosques have been bombed in Sweden, in Dresden thousands of anti-immigrant marchers demand a halt the ‘Islamisation of the West’, and in Paris ‘Charlie Hebdo’ is attackedSat Jan 10 2015 - 16:00
Je Suis Charlie: journalists must defend freedom of expression‘The appalling massacre at Charlie Hebdo promises to make 2015 yet more deadly for journalists’Fri Jan 09 2015 - 00:03
Mixed feelings in Moscow over Obama’s diplomatic initiative with CubaPossible eventual loss of strategic foothold will not have pleased Vladimir PutinSat Dec 27 2014 - 00:02
Battle over ‘The New Republic’ challenges new credo of digital media‘Chris Hughes decided to bring the venerable, once-liberal US political journal into the 21st century online age by firing editor Franklin Foer’Sat Dec 13 2014 - 12:01
Swiss are coming to terms with the legacy of ‘contract children’ seized from single mothersOpinion: ‘Until the 1930s the allocation of many of the children to farmers in search of cheap labour was done through auction at rural hiring fairs similar to those which continued in rural Ireland, notably Donegal, into the 1930s’Mon Nov 17 2014 - 11:31
Berlin 25: The road to unificationThe prospect of a united Germany faced huge hostility but became a reality just 11 months after the Berlin Wall fellThu Nov 06 2014 - 06:05
Internet tax protests force Orbán U-turnOpinion: ‘Orbán’s measure also has to be seen in the light of his own particular brand of right wing, deeply regressive consumption-focused taxation’Mon Nov 03 2014 - 10:12
The first World War: Too much to hope?Redmond’s gamble that Irish nationalism’s support for empire in first World War would cement home rule proved terribly wrong, but Great War was still ‘our war’Wed Oct 22 2014 - 00:00
Tories target European Court of Human RightsOpinion: ‘The court and convention were largely products of British/Winston Churchill’s post-War desire to bind wayward Europeans into a legal rights order that came up to British standards’Sat Oct 18 2014 - 00:01
Blasphemy will surely quietly go the way of other quaint legal relicsOpinion: A disturbed British national, facing a death sentence for blasphemy in Pakistan was shot and seriously wounded in his jail cellMon Oct 06 2014 - 14:35
Scotland votes No, England gets the revolutionCameron, deeply concerned by likely English backlash, promises fast reformsSun Sept 21 2014 - 12:04
Nato offers security blanket to countries in Russia’s orbitOpinion: Summit marked a turning point – back to defending Europe from a potential adversarySat Sept 06 2014 - 00:01
Doubts raised about Scottish post-separation currencyOpinion: Debates on Scotland’s independence and UK’s relationship with Europe show contradictionsSun Aug 10 2014 - 12:01
The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Atef Abu SaifPaperback reviewSat Aug 02 2014 - 01:00
Blaming the EU over Ukraine easy, but misguidedA familiar Cold War rhetoric to much of the discussion from our anti-war/neutrality lobbySat Jul 26 2014 - 01:48
Irish seem lost for words on Scottish independenceAnalysis: There is a politically unmentionable calculation that Ireland is best served by the preservation of the UnionFri Jul 18 2014 - 01:00
Kurdish problem is fixing itselfOpinion: A unilateral declaration by Barzani would be a mistakeSun Jul 13 2014 - 01:00
‘I’m voting “Aye”, notionally, reservations notwithstanding’Opinion: What Westminster can give it can also take away, delay, prevaricate onSat Jun 28 2014 - 13:02
Welcome to the club of reigning royalsOpinion: Twelve European monarchies surviveSun Jun 15 2014 - 12:01
Tensions rise in East Asia as China flexes its musclesOpinion: Arguments over territorial claims could trigger military face-offsSun Jun 01 2014 - 12:01
A resounding victory to indifferenceOpinion: Parliamentarians hoped to boost the ailing profile and legitimacy of the European ParliamentTue May 27 2014 - 01:01
The war to end all war“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”– Otto von Bismarck (1888)Wed May 14 2014 - 01:00
A surge of anti-EU populism in campaignWorld View: Sixty per cent of voters tend not to trust the EUSun May 04 2014 - 12:01
Voting in a time of turmoilWorld View: Elections can heal divisions or fuel conflictSun Apr 20 2014 - 12:01
Annexation of Crimea is the act of a bullying powerOpinion: When should minorities have a right to secede?Sun Mar 23 2014 - 12:41
West has only limited options in UkraineOpinion: There is a danger of exaggerating the power and the threat posed by PutinFri Mar 07 2014 - 17:46
MEPs trying to woo disillusioned votersOpinion: A low poll could sink Schulz’s gambitSat Feb 22 2014 - 00:01
