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Feis Ceoil the biggest loss to Irish classical calendar

Coronavirus ravages cultural schedule but online musical archives will reward raiding

The Rising of the Moon – An Irishman’s Diary on poet John Keegan Casey

In search of the banshee and the elusive lennanshee

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Christy Dignam: ‘Nearly all the people I started with are dead’

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The Mayo woman who became Italy’s favourite operatic diva

The opera singer refused the title of Papal Countess from Pope Pius XI anxious not to forget her humble roots as ‘Peggy of Mayo’

Compensation culture claims Shelbourne’s famous front door

Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims

Patrick Freyne: From Kylie to Declan Nerney, a history of taoiseach rock

Leo Varadkar has been accused of trying to ‘get down with the kids’ via 1980s pop icon Kylie Minogue. Here’s how our former leaders rocked us in the Oireachtas

A Portrait of the Artist as a PR Man – James Joyce’s controversial campaign to promote an operatic friend, John O’Sullivan

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Laois woman leaves €30m windfall to five charities in her will

Property and newspaper owner Elizabeth O’Kelly(92) gives Irish Cancer Society €6m

Special €15 coin honours late guitar great Rory Gallagher

Legal tender coin with €15 face value to be sold at €60 each as only 3,000 copies being minted

Dublin's southside: The dark secrets of Merrion and Booterstown

A new book by Hugh Oram shines a light on these southside Dublin suburbs

John McCormack home on Rock Road goes for more than a song

Two landmark homes on the busy Rock Road find buyers after price corrections and a long wait

The Belfast man who became president of Israel

Schooled in Dublin, Chaim Herzog served two terms as president

Galway recreation centre for children and parents faces closure

Future of Time4Us, which provides play and cooking facilities, in doubt due to regulatory requirements

Louis Walsh: ‘Boyzone were more fun than Westlife’

‘Ireland’s Got Talent’ star on ungrateful popstars and being falsely accused of sex assault

Secrets and pints: 60 years of the Shelbourne’s Horseshoe Bar

The Shelbourne hotel’s ‘institution within an institution’ gets ready to party – discreetly

Ex-senator Averil Power appointed Irish Cancer Society chief

Power ran unsuccessfully as an independent for a Dáil seat in last election

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