Reworked Brussels metro map celebrates Irish women

Constance Markievicz and Mary Robinson in roll-call of women who have helped shape Europe

Battle at the Ivy: Another controversy at the Dublin restaurant

First, a row over tips. Now, it is claimed, a waiter has been dismissed for joining a union

The untold stories of Toy Story

Woody started out as a jerk, Barbie is a Marxist . . . much like Andy’s toys, the fan theories around the franchise have taken on a life of their own

Profits jump at Kelly’s in Rosslare as confidence returns

Hotel resort has spent €3m on capital projects over last few years

Laundered diesel and Black and Tan boot polish: the Rising gets an artful injection of mischief

Artist Rita Duffy’s send-up of the Rising and Irish culture is a refreshing antidote to the seriousness of the centenary commemorations

Alex Miller: ‘Simple prose is valued more now than a decade ago’

‘Brought to Book’ Q&A: Australian author of Coal Creek and The Ancestor Game on the books that have inspired him

Women on the verge of a tumultuous showdown: Women in Dark Times, by Jacqueline Rose

Review: profiles of Rosa Luxemburg, Marilyn Monroe and Charlotte Salomon – or feminism as extended psychoanalysis

How the drug-like voice of Lotte Lenya led me to Kurt Weill

I discovered many of Weill’s works by following the trail of his tremulous-toned wife

Profile: Jean Jaurès

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