Churchyard Bard – Frank McNally on the lasting fame of Thomas Gray, who died 250 years ago on this day
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Make a mess of your foolish dessert by adding meringue
The word ‘mess’ may refer to the appearance of the dish or simply to the quantity of food
Is there a better closing scene in any running film than Chariots of Fire?
A hymn plays at Abrahams’s funeral and young men run barefoot on an open beach
Susie Dent: ‘Jimmy Carr is incredibly rude to me. I took it as a compliment’
The Countdown lexicographer on a life-long love of languages, accidental fame and why ‘gobshite’ isn’t as Irish as we think
Desmond Guinness: Socialite on a mission to save Ireland’s Georgian heritage
Obituary: He revived the Irish Georgian Society, and influenced State policy on historic houses
Eton-educated son of barrister jailed for part in £108m fraud
Jonathan Anwyl jailed for role in fake investments marketed as tax breaks for rich
Judge says €4,500 a week to house troubled teenager is ‘daft’
Annual spend of €250,000 is higher than cost of Eton College, says Judge Patrick Durcan
Hughie O’Donoghue: Broader strokes of family history
The artist’s new exhibition explores the personal and political, ‘the complex, detailed, contingencies of people’s lives’
Priest delighted as stolen 'stations' return to Galway church
Evie Hone paintings taken almost three years ago found on waste ground in Co Offaly
Do boarding schools foster independent thinking or are they psychologically damaging?
While the more extreme regimes in boarding schools are disturbing, any blanket condemnation is wrong
Now I know why the wealthy and privileged are low achievers
Opinion: a new book argues that some groups achieve more because of a superiority complex, insecurity and impulse control
Taxidermy, by Alexis Turner
An illustrated homage to taxidermy explores the practice from Victorian times to the present
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