House Conversion – Frank McNally on James Joyce and the Dublin Vigilance Committee

An Irishman’s Diary

River Dunce – Frank McNally on fake-bookshelf builders (and other transpontine types)

Migrant crisis shows the West still does not understand the East

Greece Letter: Inhumane camps and deaths of children mark failures of diplomacy

Greece’s swing to the right brings some positives

Greece Letter: Like a new car, new PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis can only depreciate in value

Greece’s deep problems are impossible to ignore

Greece Letter: Orthodox scandals point to greater holes in the fabric of Greek society

Greece’s election shows the powerlessness of its politicians

Greece Letter: New Democracy’s rise does little to address nation’s longstanding issues

Ode to a Grecian sojourn – the enduring mystique of islands

An Irishman’s Diary: Getting a taste for Robinsonade, a 300-year-old literary genre

The case for two orchestras in Ireland

The future of the two RTÉ orchestras is all about keeping faith

‘Irish Times’ dominates nominations for journalism awards

Annual awards celebrate quality original journalism in national newspapers

Varadkar and Donohoe should talk to Yanis Varoufakis

Ex-Greek finance minister lays bare lack of accountability in European machine

Greece Letter: Athens caught in the middle again by European crises

Turkey’s demand for extradition of alleged plotters creates a fresh dilemma for the Greeks, already being blamed by the EU for insufficiently strict border controls

Greece faces into yet another unhappy year

Another general election is almost inevitable within the next three months

Greece Letter: ‘Mr Teflon’ Alex Tsipras may yet stay in power

Despite debt talks reversals, weak opposition may wind up propelling Syriza back to power

An American take on Friel’s Irish Russia

‘Itinerant director’ Ethan McSweeny is bringing his outsider’s eye to Brian Friel’s translation of A Month in the Country at the Gate