Happy Hour again: Paul Heaton funds free drinks in nine pubs around Ireland

Housemartins singer funds 60 pubs across Ireland and the UK on his 60th birthday

Great Saint Robbery – Frank McNally on the dubious Scottish historian Thomas Dempster

An Irishman’s Diary

An Irishwoman’s 35 years in France: ‘I have had a career, four children and two marriages’

Life is better in my 50s, writes Anne-Marie Mullen of her years as an emigrant

Feet of Flames – Frank McNally on how running’s ‘super-shoe’ has conquered the globe (and Raheny)

‘The Irish pub is a status symbol. With unrest in the world, everything Irish is seen as safe’

There are almost as many Irish pubs abroad as there are in Ireland, where the number has fallen by 10 per cent in a decade. What can Irish publicans do about it?

1916/2016: A miscellany

A diary for March 11th, 1916, and March 11th, 2016

Weekend in . . . Left Bank, Paris

The City of Lights changes, but the Left Bank has retained its classic old-school charm down through the centuries

Eileen Gray, thoroughly modern maker

Furniture designer and architect Eileen Gray died nearly 40 years ago but is back with us in a big way: a new book, film and TV special are all devoted to the life and work of the Irish woman who pioneered the Modern Movement

Hope is in the Clare air – even the dolphins can feel it

All-Ireland preview: hurling fever grips the Banner county in a way not seen in almost two decades

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A festival fit for a Prince?

An Irishman’s Diary about the Galway Races, then and now