Ireland’s stance in the Rockall dispute is largely nonsense
Irish representatives have one good point to make on the issue, but keep making bad ones
How Ireland has benefited from our economists
John FitzGerald: Government policies have seen better outcomes thanks to domestic expertise
Meeting with North’s prime minister in 1965 opposed by ‘Paisley element’
Seán Lemass: Historic meeting uncovered ‘bare, hard-rock prejudices’
Lemass’s economic expansion policy saved Ireland
Seán Lemass tapes: 1958 plan to reverse protectionism and open Ireland up to foreign investment had a galvanising effect on the economy
Portrait of a Century: the changing face of Ireland
Kim Haughton has photographed 100 people, one born every year since foundation of the State
TK Whitaker ‘a gem amongst men’, funeral hears
Influential civil servant’s son pays tribute to ‘wonderful father and great patriot’
John FitzGerald: What to expect from long-term Brexit effects
Policies of protectionism helped to ensure Ireland was a backwater for 50 years
Ken Whitaker: The architect of modern Ireland
His sense of purpose told him the State could not continue as it was in the late 1950s, losing its population to mass emigration and its morale to creeping despair
Whitaker wanted Central Bank to be State’s ‘warning light’
TKWhitaker: Central Bank governor – turned bank into a dynamic institution
Formative influences emerged in contribution to modern Irish State’s evolution
TK Whitaker: Making of a civil servant – Long life mirrored State’s journey through economic and political upheaval
‘An officer decidedly more than average’
TK Whitaker: the young civil servant – talent was evident from beginning of civil service career
Whitaker’s work is as relevant as ever to today’s Ireland
Core lesson remains that we must be competitive internationally to prosper
Centenarian TK Whitaker built State’s economic foundations
Radical civil servant played pivotal role in economic, social and political life of State
Public servant and architect of modern Ireland TK Whitaker marks a century
His critical contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process is less well known
Donohoe maintains hard line on spending for 2017
No increase in €1bn fiscal space and no extra cash to bail out departments, says Minister
Award winner welcomes growing role for women
Margaret Downes has served on numerous boards in business and the arts
MacGill: New ‘revolutionary’ needs to bring markets to account
Achievements of former civil servant and Central Bank governor Dr TK Whitaker celebrated at annual summer school
Anne Chambers on writing her TK Whitaker biography, Portrait of a Patriot
Widely regarded as the architect of modern Ireland, his was the quiet presence, the rational, informed voice behind many of the events that shaped modern Irish history
Canny and in control: TK Whitaker – Portrait of a Patriot
Review: Whitaker’s service to Ireland is well painted but author Anne Chambers’s treatment of her subject is a bit cosy
A plan to save the Irish economy
In an extract from a new biography, the former civil servant Ken ‘TK’ Whitaker recalls the drafting of the plan that turned Ireland’s economy around in the late 1950s, a time of emigration, unemployment and political pessimism
1963: ‘Irish Times seeks Financial Editor ... ’
Ireland’s first full-time financial journalist recalls the ‘Rising Tide’ of the early 1960s
McDowell criticises pundits who enjoy ‘middle-class self-hatred’
Former minister says Ireland is not a failed State and people should not accept ‘phoney reform’
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