If the Rising's rebels had taken Trinity, might it today be called Pearse College Dublin? During Easter Week 1916 Michael Taaffe, a medical student, was part of the small garrison that defended Trinity College from insurgent attack. Half a century later he wrote down his memories of those turbulent days. Read more here.
All Together Now 2019: Everything you need to know about the line-up, tickets, weather, banned items and transport for the holiday-weekend festival. Read more here.
In one week last month, Fontaines DC went from the Glastonbury Festival to Copenhagen to Barcelona to St Petersburg to Moscow. At the airport on the way back to Ireland from that last stop, the band's frontman, Grian Chatten, wandered off to buy some headphones while the rest of the band got on the plane. Read more here.
When Leo Varadkar first sent three career diplomats (Yewande, Maura and Greg) to infiltrate Love Island as our last best hope for meaningful Anglo-Irish co-operation, it looked like a long shot. Read more here.
Inside the Secret World of Incels: Misogyny, murder and cowardice: This alarming film vindicates the stereotype of the awkward, seething outcast. Read more here.
When Albert Black set sail for New Zealand on the SS Captain Cook in 1953, he was a "ten quid Pom" or assisted emigrant, looking for a bright new future of full employment. Read more here.
This week the veteran English protest singer Billy Bragg joined us for a chat on the Irish Times politics podcast (which, I am contractually obliged to tell you, is available on all good podcast platforms). Read more here.
