When most Irish people think of the 1980s, it generally spells unemployment and a lot of emigration but it wasn't all doom and gloom. Ireland in the 1980s was an especially difficult time. With high ...

The Story of BBC News in Northern Ireland is told by BBC journalists and managers as well as media observers. Their perspectives cast light on some of the major issues through the decades. In June ...

In Claire Keegan's feminist take on Dickens, a boy born to an unwed teen builds a life as a coal merchant, husband, and father to five daughters,... Bill Furlong, Claire Keegan's unforgettable ...

I can't remember all the details of my first trip to Ireland in 1980 as a teenager, but Killarney and Dublin certainly stand out in my mind. In 1980, July or August, I was about to be a sophomore at ...

The shooting dead of three IRA members in Gibraltar in 1988 by an SAS team was a hugely controversial event. Two current affairs programmes sought to get to the truth of what happened. One was a This ...

Pill, Huw. "Fiscal Policy and the Case of Expansionary Fiscal Contraction in Ireland in the 1980s." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-015, December 2004. (Revised December 2004.) ...

The European Commission ruled on Tuesday that Apple received a sweetheart deal from Ireland. Ireland will be forced to claw back about $14.5 billion in unpaid taxes from Apple. Apple doesn't like this ...

Titles are presented of reports, books, journal articles, and articles in books which deal with empirical research in education in Ireland and which were written between 1960 and 1980. There are 148 ...

FacebookTweetLinkedInPrint Much-loved campaigner and advocate Sr Stanislaus Kennedy has died. Known to many simply as Sister ...

Bill Furlong, Claire Keegan's unforgettable protagonist in Small Things Like These, makes his giant leap from a series of measured steps. The idea of seemingly insignificant gestures, which — "when ...