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Richard J Evans’s sweeping history lays bare a century of freedom and oppression, progress and misrule
As Brexit threatens the reimposition of a "hard" border across this island, it is a good time to look back at the effects such a border once had. From closed roads to cockfights, fishing disputes to smugglers, Peter Leary offers a fascinating insight into how people and communities "negotiated" the line that disrupted their lives in 1922 and continued to define them for decades after.
Christopher Kissane explores the role of food in past and present conflicts over identity.
A Culture Night special discussing identity, recorded live at Dublin Castle.
Increased interest from UK offers a chance to reflect on Ireland’s expansive citizenship.
Christopher Kissane, in our latest New Generation Thinkers interview, reflects on innovative ways to engage new audiences and shows that food is more than just for eating. Christopher is a historian working on the role of food in history.
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of disintegration.
New Generation Thinker Christopher Kissane explores food's forgotten role in history.
The history of our national movements - long too narrow for a people so far-flung - is widening.
When does commemoration become obsession, and should we give amnesia a chance?
Since Mary Robinson raised it to our emotive national consciousness in 1995, we use the word "diaspora" when we talk about the Irish abroad. In Dingle last week for the "Ireland's Edge" conference at Other Voices, it struck me that we have no Irish word for diaspora, except the disappointingly transliterated "diaspóra".
The empire at the heart of Europe for nearly a thousand years was much like the EU, with its Byzantine complexity, a reliance on fudge, inequalities and multiple identities – but it worked.
As Irish politics returns to its boom-era totems of lower taxes and higher spending, the Taoiseach has recently commented said that emigrants had been slow to return as they were worried they would be "screwed" on their taxes.
With hundreds of thousands of people having left the country since the last election, and recent OECD figures showing that one-in-six Irish people now lives outside of Ireland, one would expect emigration to figure heavily in the political parties' policy proposals for the current campaign.
Discussion of the proposed tax breaks for returning Irish emigrants with George Hook on Newstalk.