Sally Potter: the always adventurous filmmaker

Potter explores the fluidity of thought in her new movie about a father and daughter dealing with dementia

Blarney Barney – Frank McNally on a tale of two euphemisms

The English Malaise – Frank McNally on a mysterious ‘sweating sickness’ that terrorised 16th-century England

Saoirse Ronan: ‘I can go anywhere. I have a lovely place to come back to’

The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home

Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness

Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....

Seán Moncrieff: Beard-wearers have too much time on their hands

Perhaps the popularity of facial hair is hiding a little male nervousness

From sailing on a rhumb to flying on a geodesic

That’s Maths: Pedro Nunes, a Portuguese cosmographer and one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, was first to develop a mathematical basis for navigation

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No turning back as divided UK hands in notice

House of Commons displays spectrum of stances as departure from EU under way

Shakespeare strikes a chord on post-Brexit stage

Brexiteers’ fear they will be betrayed and Remainers that they already have been

Why artists are uniquely placed to make a fine art of protest

Artists are in a unique position to make their voices heard – although, like the poet Maung Saungkha and the comedian Jan Böhmermann, they often pay a price

Relics from Spanish Armada discovered in Sligo

Artefacts more than 425 years old from merchant vessel found off Streedagh

British monarchy tweets in Irish

@Britishmonarchy Twitter account announces arrival of Uachtarán na hÉireann in London

English cities draw swords over Richard III’s final resting place

Court hearings over where newly discovered remains should be re-buried

Centuries of benefactors honoured at Trinity dining hall

Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Iveagh among donors to university since its foundation