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...
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....
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...
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 –...
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...
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,...
