Entertainer Josephine Baker joins elite in France’s Panthéon
Paris Letter: Dancer titillated audiences while working for the French Resistance
Irish civilian dead of WW2 to be recognised as Commonwealth casualties
Concentration camp victim among 52 people to be remembered in Westminster Abbey
Resistance: Marcel Marceau’s extraordinary early life helping Jewish children flee France
Review: Director leans too heavily towards sentimental and sensational
Macron indulges in self-flattery with homage to Charles de Gaulle
French president hoping to be seen as a modern-day de Gaulle as he eyes re-election
Macron leads months-long homage to Charles de Gaulle
Paris Letter: Quadruple commemorations for wartime leader on anniversary of 1940 speech
The play with no performers: Beckett’s Room is something between a conjuring act and a weird dream
As the world that made Samuel Beckett who he was becomes magically apparent, the point of Dead Centre’s unusual approach begins to makes sense
Home Front: Are these the finest wooden spoons you can get?
Meet the Galway man carving kitchen implements using age-old techniques
When Charles de Gaulle came to Ireland for six weeks
After his resignation as French president 50 years ago the general visited Sneem
The beginning of French politics as we know it
Paris Letter: Sixty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle created the Fifth Republic
Lapsed Irish Catholics ‘most sympathetic’ to Jews, says author
Joyce, Binchy and O’Brien show ‘a link between lapsed Catholics and philo-semitism’
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance, by Robert Gildea
Review: Robert Gildea believes France downplayed the extent of its collaboration with Nazi Germany to help it cope with the trauma of defeat and occupation. His vivid, convincing new account focuses on the groups that did resist Hitler: communists, republicans, anti-fascists and, above all, women
War hero appeals for modern day harmony in Northern Ireland
Veterans reminisce on 70th anniversary of formal end to second World War
Irish veteran of D-Day gets France’s highest military honour
Michael d’Alton given Légion d’Honneur by French ambassador Jean Pierre-Thébault
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