Home Front: Make a new year’s resolution to freshen up your home

Home Front: Wooden Star Wars toy; Christmas flea market, and stylish storage

Vintage tourism posters fetch premium prices but there are affordable options

Shop in countryside calm at Ballilogue; dish up with funky spoons from Denmark

Home Front: Here’s some presents to buy and courses to try

Home Front: Interiors, design, people and events

Play with plywood, head west to Castlebar and a new online site for lights

And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival

Plus: a Danish solution to the enduring rug problem, and a colourful Monsoon season

Home front: design, interiors, people, events

Terraced houses in Dublin 8, at €365,000 and €400,000, are close to both city centre and M50

Auction results

Home front: Flower chandeliers and getting an architect’s advice for Simon charity

Home Front: interiors, design, people, property

Design round-up: Irish watches, 1950s style, hot glass and revamped antiques

From floral art to stylish pottery, the holiday season is awash with colour and comfort

Published: September 22nd, 1955

The Miele massive sale, upcycled gems, Merrion Square open doors, bedroom inspiration and seeking eclectic collectibles

Sean Scully at the White House, copper cookware at Aldi, a home show in Mayo and pottery on the coast

Barn style in a cafe, candles in jars and houses in an archive

The playground is a battleground in Animalia, while Looking Deadly pits a pair of small-town rival undertakers against each other

In his novel Solar Bones, McCormack has written an expansive tale about a ghost, which is also a ‘hymn to engineers’

It has taken 10 years for Mia Gallagher to follow up her debut novel, but the almost labyrinthine Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland is well worth getting lost in

A copper-bearing pigment was burning through the 890-page 16th-century Koran, but the manuscript has been saved and is on display in the Chester Beatty Library

Census 2016 takes place next weekend. The operation to deliver forms to more than two million homes across Ireland has a logistical complexity that beggars belief

‘Famine Folios’ aims to see national calamity afresh through 21st-century eyes

We are forever hearing about the imminent death of the Irish language, but there is a growing interest in the language worldwide, especially at third-level

‘Best of Miriam Lord’ among titles which include books on wine, cartoons and journalism

The Marble City is bracing itself for mayhem and merriment, not to mention an estimated 45,000 visitors

Darragh McKeon’s individuals are atomic particles adrift in a vast universe

Paperback review

Paperback review

Irish crime and thriller writers have made quite a mark in recent years. Now it’s the turn of a new wave of Irish literary novelists. Five debut writers introduce their books

Photograph by Frank Miller, first oublished on February 2nd, 1990

The flautist is in Dublin tonight to collect a lifetime achievement award. It’s a far cry from Carnalea Street, in east Belfast

Road race in Cork, 1936

Published March 28th, 1972

Our Going Coastal series continues. Many are drawn to the glittering waters of Dunmanus Bay, one of our last unspoiled stretches of coast

English high-wire walker Chris Bull aims to cross the river Suir this week – 30ft up – as part of the Clonmel Junction Festival