Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig adhered to the dictum that ‘every age gets the diseases it deserves’ as translator Will Stone tells JP O’Malley.

What possessed seemingly cultured men to implement a policy of barbarism against the Jews of Europe? Laurence Rees seeks the answer in what JP O’Malley considers to be a magisterial undertaking of research.

The Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen is a keen student of Adam Smith he tells JP O’Malley. But that doesn’t make him a blind follower of free market thinking

Daniel Dennett tells JP O’Malley that memes can supplement genes and have contributed arguably as much to the creation of human consciousness.

JP O’Malley talked to author Peter Conradi about the authoritarianism behind the growing tension between a former superpower and its neighbours in the Baltic and the EU.

A leading Irish American politician behind a tens of thousands strong petition urging Enda Kenny to snub US president Donald Trump has accused the Taoiseach of turning the Irish wolfhound into a “lapdog”.

There was definitely a hint of regret for Pat O’Malley that she hadn’t been able to fulfil other ambitions, writes Victoria White.

JP O’ Malley speaks with Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran about the increasing dangers in Turkish society.

JP O’ Malley interviews Chad Posick and Michael Rocque and gets closer to the reasons why some people in society carry out criminal acts while the vast majority don’t.

After four quiet days, Irish racing action returns at Dundalk, where Thomas O’Malley has been found what looks a good winning opportunity in the Elusive Pimpernel Maiden.

As of 1940, primary school was the sole source of education for 90% of the population. Fifty years ago, Donogh O’Malley outlined an initiative that would finally change all that, writes Ryle Dwyer 

They may have been bitter political rivals, but the late Charlie Haughey has unwittingly done Des O’Malley a favour — by helping the former Progressive Democrat leader save a few euro on his tax bill.

IT IS almost exactly 50 years since Donogh O’Malley caused consternation among colleagues in government when he announced his free post-primary education scheme without having brought the matter to Cabinet.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan will be joined by one-time US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders strategist Tadd Devine on a heavy-hitting schedule for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

Not all countries in the Middle East aspire to a western-style democratic model and it is this misunderstanding of people’s needs that has led to the inexorable rise of IS, writes JP O’Malley.

Jim O’Malley is the author of Walking the Munster Blackwater, an account of his seven-day walk along the famed river. He’s from East Cork, between Killeagh and Youghal, and worked as a teacher in Cork, Dublin and Killorglin. He will read from his book at the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, Lismore, Co Waterford on June 16-19.

Consumerism isn’t just about buying goods and services. It has come to define the way we shape our identities and how we interact socially every day, as JP O’Malley discovers in a supersized tome that traces its history.

It is the west’s blind myopia that leads it to go to war in the Middle East, with disastrous consequences, argues JP O’Malley on reading an account of Islamism which shows that, as an ideology, it is growing further apart.

Peter O’Toole was as eccentric as the characters he played on screen and on stage. He loved playing the drunken Irishman even though he wasn’t one, as JP O’Malley learns.

The depiction of unity between banks and people is a lie and explains why 40% of US citizens do not have access to credit, as American law professor Mehrsa Baradaran explains to JP O’Malley.

Millions are spent each year on promoting neoliberal ideas worldwide. JP O’Malley reads between the lines of a subtle example of this. 

US Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O’Malley had to give up his Irish passport to take up the role of a diplomat. But, as he recounts to Dan Buckley, that doesn’t make him feel any less Irish.

Galway United 0 St Patrick’s Athletic 0 (St Patrick’s Athletic won 4-3 on penalties): St Patrick’s Athletic manager Liam Buckley hailed goalkeeper Conor O’Malley as a star of the future after the Mayo native saved two penalties in the shoot-out to hand the Super Saints the EA Sports Cup in Eamonn Deacy Park on Saturday night.

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley says the rise of IS was an unintended consequence of a “mindless rush to war” in Iraq and the US must avoid “mission creep” there now.

US ambassador to Ireland Kevin O’Malley has written an open letter to all Irish students on J1 visas encouraging them to stay on and finish their summer working overseas.

Irish-American politician Martin O’Malley is set to announce he will challenge Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party candidate for the White House, laying to rest any notion of a “Clinton coronation”.

Former government minister Des O’Malley has said he would sue Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald if she made allegations about him having an offshore Ansbacher account outside the Dáil chamber.

Tributes are being paid to a sportswriter who died after he collapsed playing indoor football on Thursday. Carl O’Malley, 37, had became a father for the third time only last week.

Former tánaiste Mary Harney last night denied she halted a probe into offshore tax accounts because prominent PD Des O’Malley’s name was on a list of people allegedly involved and that every opportunity had been afforded the investigation to finish its work.

Oscar Wilde’s greatest contribution to our culture is not his writing but the invention of celebrity. JP O’Malley is not entirely convinced.

Our brains are designed to panic when the love that sustains us is suddenly removed, says JP O’ Malley.

AS HILLARY CLINTON celebrates the birth of her grandchild and edges closer to deciding on a US presidential bid, an Irish-American governor could be getting ready to rain on her parade.

Des O’Malley’s much-anticipated memoir detailing over three decades spent in the Dáil cauldron is bound to ruffle a few feathers, the author has admitted.

Hannah Ellis has edited a book to mark the centenary of the birth of her grandfather, the Welsh poet and legend Dylan Thomas. Blood is indeed thicker than water, finds an underwhelmed JP O’Malley.

For nearly a decade the United Ireland newspaper was a propaganda vehicle for Charles Stewart Parnell. JP O’Malley on a new history of the publication