The spirit of Dublin – Beatrice M Doran on distiller and lord mayor George Roe
“A gentleman and a citizen”
An Irish Diary
“A gentleman and a citizen”
In the melancholy of that life-worn voice could be heard the cadences of a lyric heart
Another cameo for Macintosh Man
A symphony of JCB engines and jack-hammers
Harry Gleeson was brought back to his home village 83 years after he was wrongfully executed
William Vincent Wallace’s Lurline has a colourful past
His subjects included Gladstone and Salisbury
Even the washing machine barks orders these days
A new exhibition, Birds Brilliant & Bizarre, is at the Natural History Museum in London
Saluting the flag
Irish townlands website lists an inventory of more than 60 places starting with Q – from Quigley’s Point to Quilty
She succeeded Douglas Hyde as professor of modern Irish in UCD in 1932
The party was unusual for, among other things, hosting an exhibition in a greenhouse
For decades, The Callahans and the Murphys was believed completely lost
The epidemic took hold quickly in 1849 with devastating effect
Éamon de Valera welcomed the joint Peru-Chile selection to Leinster House prior to their match against Bohemians
Nowlan was prominent among a group of militant reformers who sought to revive the GAA
Cherished cafés come and go, like the generations that love them
A long-missing artwork and its partial rediscovery
Among the more than 100 Irish soldiers who marched with Custer was a “Sergeant Thomas Murray, born in Co Monaghan”
A 28-year-old film star with GAA-honed ankles sets the pace
Gaffney and three fellow legislators left in the middle of a blizzard to begin a journey of thousands of kilometres to take their seats in the assembly
He proposed an absolute temperatures scale, which is measured in ‘kelvin units’ thanks to his analysis
Its role as a headquarters of the world’s conscience has seen the city gradually elevated to the status of metonym
An astonishing series of coincidences
His efforts advanced mainstream acceptance for the idea that animals should be legally protected
Like most young journalists now, he multitasks as cameraman, sound recordist, editor, and writer
The Gibraltar childhood and adolescence that Joyce created for Molly Bloom are rooted in his conception of Galway as a Spanish city
On his departure from Lismore, he felt that he was an ‘exile wandering far away from Eden’
I resorted to 40 press-ups, on the desperate pretext that blood rushing to my brain might arrive with a fully-formed column outline
The man who turned Belfast into a powerhouse
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices