London misunderstands The Playboy of the Western World
The new National Theatre production is an uproarious and haunting portrait of rural Irish life
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After Troy Parrott’s goal, Ireland dreams once more
The rational world of actions and consequences feels a very long way away
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Around the world in 50 Irish pubs
Combine a bar, a microwave, a patronising invocation of “craic” and an Irish-sounding name, and you have a thriving business…
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The only way is Wexford
Also this week: A new president for Ireland, and an operatic national anthem
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Ireland gambles on Catherine Connolly
Her election is a triumph of the national id over its ego
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How Catherine Connolly captured Ireland’s imagination
Ireland will choose a new president on Friday
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Welcome to Viagra Town
How did a small former fishing village in rural Ireland come to be responsible for maintaining the world’s erections?
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Ireland is just getting angrier
Anti-immigration rioters in West Dublin have no one to ventriloquise their rage
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House of Guinness’s sinister, sepia world
The new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight expertly depicts the ruthless origins of Dublin’s brewing dynasty
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Leo Varadkar: the man who won Brexit
In his new memoir, the former taoiseach defends his polarising legacy
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Has Ireland knocked out Conor McGregor?
The MMA fighter’s brief presidential campaign has revealed a vacancy in Irish politics
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Sally Rooney is the conscience of a generation
Her politics are a mirror for millennial anxieties.
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So you want to be Irish?
Kneecap’s confrontational message proved hard to swallow for a north London audience.
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Ireland’s anti-immigrant rage will not go away
The protests in Ballymena could foreshadow a summer of serious unrest.
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The Easter Rising and the perils of mythology
The IRA wielded 1916 to legitimise their own campaign of violence in the Troubles.
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Paul Brady’s songs of conflict
The Northern Irish songwriter – Bob Dylan’s “secret hero” – on making morally complex music in the time of the…
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The contested life of Roger Casement
The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and private…
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The reality of Ireland’s anti-Israel stance
The country has drawn a false equivalence with Northern Ireland and Palestine.
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Is Sinn Féin the worst opposition party in Europe?
As incumbent governments fell across the world, Ireland’s establishment held firm.
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Can Ireland stave off populism forever?
As the country heads to the polls some voters want to rip up the status quo.
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