Pádraig Lenihan’s outstanding new book includes events and figures seared into Ireland’s collective historical and cultural ...

Like Myra in her story A Memory, Mary Lavin lived in a mews house behind Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin. She also had a house on a bend of the river Boyne in Co Meath, north of Dublin, a place inhabited ...

Landlords and Middlemen in Eighteenth-century Duhallow by John O’Regan discusses the so-called Rockite rebellion (1820-24). This was a large-scale insurrection of up to 2,000 rebels threatening the ...

The hands of the clock go patiently over the story again from the top. Consider all the years you’ve spent in waiting rooms like this with clocks for company, in libraries and h ...

This book is, for want of better phrasing, a bit too well-written. There’s virtually nothing to be thought or said about it ...

Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has died.

Chinese students who were beaten with a crowbar by burglars at their home in Cork two years ago have told a judge about the ...

Anya Wilson and Athena Wu of Trinity College Dublin ’s Historical Society (Hist) have been crowned team winners of the 66th ...

Forget the final tally. Bohemians out fought then out played Shamrock Rovers to go three points clear at the top of the Premier Division. Goals from Connor Parsons, Colm Whelan and Ross Tierney had ...

“Disastrous capitalism” is “poisoning the world”, according to former president Michael D Higgins. Speaking at a Labour Party event in Galway on Friday evening, Higgins severely criticised the current ...

Charity wants man who moved in to one of its properties earmarked for homeless people to leave before end of February ...

Harry Byrne’s first taste of action in over a month lasted only three minutes as Leinster’s 11-match unbeaten run ended at ...