Firm friends: Finola Kennedy on a remarkable friendship between the founder of the Legion of Mary and former president WT Cosgrave

Frank Duff never forgot Cosgrave’s support for the lay Catholic organisation he founded in 1921

‘St Colman’s was very special to Elizabeth Bowen’: A community’s effort to save part of Ireland’s literary heritage

Imperilled church in Farahy is the last standing link with Bowen’s Court, the writer’s Co Cork home

Irish culture’s remarkable response to the political turmoil from 1891 to 1922

Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere

Máire Mhac an tSaoi obituary: acclaimed poet, critic and diplomat

An ‘enabling force’ for later Irish language women writers

A life in stone: Sculptor Imogen Stuart reflects on her life and her work

‘I never know how things are going to turn out until they are finished’, says 94-year-old artist

Teresa Deevy and the secrets of the green suitcase

Best known for her productions at the Abbey, the Waterford playwright also wrote for radio, and there’s a mystery surrounding the origins of unpublished work under a pseudonym

Hacked Off – Frank McNally on the trail of Hackball, King of the Beggars

An Irishman’s Diary

Julia O’Faolain obituary: Irish author who wrote ‘about what is inescapable’

Her themes include clerical intrigue, women’s role in society, power, faith and sexuality

The poet as press attaché – An Irishman’s Diary on John Betjeman in Ireland

War of Independence: The who’s who of policing in Ireland

When the long-established RIC proved not up to the task of crushing the IRA, the British government made the fateful and fatal decision to draft in the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries

Fintan O'Toole: Why do we fear the ghosts of dead policemen?

Are Ireland’s wars truly over? For some people, there is still a hierarchy of victims

Government forced to confront complicated history of two police forces

RIC and DMP were tasked with opposing IRA in War of Independence

The Fire Starters review: A blazing tale in east Belfast

Jan Carson’s captivating novel should hopefully earn her international recognition

Hoor You To Talk? – An Irishman’s Diary about unparliamentary language