Brewer Guinness was prepared to drop associations with Ireland and promote itself as an English company in the 1980s because of the IRA bombing campaigns, state papers have revealed.

1982: Main events

Experience has always been, and remains, one of the very best teachers.

The year which saw two governments fall is best summed up by the phrase coined that August: Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented. Ryle Dwyer reports

Exploiting the US president’s Irish ancestry helped Ireland retain its influence on Capitol Hill, writes Ryle Dwyer