Head over heels – Alison Healy on cupid’s arrow
While the ship was going nowhere, it was full steam ahead for a love affair
An Irish Diary
While the ship was going nowhere, it was full steam ahead for a love affair
A fitting venue
Squares and hardliners
In 1699, he sailed with William Penn to America to what became known as Pennsylvania
Some home truths that have never made it into any official educational material
Even pedestrians are less predictable than before
Agreement is a funny and moving drama
A now-rare outing for the third verse of The Mountains of Mourne
The saga continues
A childhood chant went: 'Keep far, keep far, keep far from me for I am the rock of misery'
Kennedy had been invited to deliver the College Historical Society’s bicentenary address on the theme of Edmund Burke
Women were prominent in promoting the ivy tribute
I peeped into the front room where, sure enough, there was a mass session in progress
Perhaps the greatest legacy of May O’Callaghan’s communist sojourn was a story of enduring friendship and eventually love
The plot thickens
I was the best show they’d seen for quite some time
The Paraguayan arpa has become the unofficial national folk instrument
Maxim Litvinov and the Inniskeen conundrum
A new bar and a nod to Joyce
I’m proud that, helped by a long sabbatical, its working career has now spanned over 40 years
Conspicuous generosity
Guinness chief medical officer was a determined and courageous leader
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s half-eaten lozenge is one of many curious items that have been advertised
This month, 425 years ago, marks a pivotal non-event a few miles from Carrickmacross
It was a jaunt reminiscent of the inaugural Bloomsday, albeit with more speed and less alcohol
An unlikely quest involving cryptograms, pirates and six-legged residents
Galveston hurricane killed thousands of people, including an Irish nun
Men have been policing women’s clothes since Adam looked askance at Eve’s fig leaf
He founded the anti-partitionist Ulster Union Club in 1941
At various stages in his life, Byron kept monkeys, goats, a crocodile, eagles, horses and badgers as pets
How the “cyclingist city in the world” yielded to the rule of the car
Building that is home to the Everyman opened as the Cork Palace Theatre of Varieties in 1897
The payment came from the privy purse, the British sovereign’s private income
She kept the cannon firing in the face of the British and Hessian onslaught
News, entertainment, influence and popularity
Journalist, broadcaster and labour and nationalist activist
Two hours beside a crisp-munching, cola-slurping loud talker
Hill appeared in a number of Gaiety productions, often as part of Cyril Cusack’s company
One of Ireland’s first international pop stars
They’ll find their feet and their voice and they’ll make friends, quite possibly for life
The advance on Nijmegen
When they are in exotic places, they are haunted by pictures of friends having more fun at home
James Clarence Mangan was a rock star before his time
Ominous directions
First Irish journalist to be imprisoned for refusing to reveal his sources
Congratulations, the WhatsApp message said: ‘ur kids are all officially tatted’
A Data-driven approach to unity
Mary Strangman was the first elected woman member of Waterford Corporation
A festival of distraction
Mallory’s affection for Ireland began long before he set foot on the snows of Everest
Some of my Dublin compatriots favour cod-acting over jig-acting
The mystical attraction of the number 40
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices