Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option

Hugh Lane’s contribution to cultural history is the focus of Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s new film

DVD of Bob Geldof’s documentary on poet has been released

Historian praised for ‘almost single-handedly creating the idea of Irish history in Britain’

Johnny Gogan’s biography of Hubert Butler finds this Irish George Orwell honoured by his intellectual inheritors

Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge

The West Cork History Festival takes place on the grounds of Lissard Estate and will feature a range speakers stirring up ideas and examining old animosities

Willingness of Michael Dobbs to speak indicates potential of new event, says organiser

Ted Smyth reflects on the incisive intellect and modern mind that was Prof Fanning

Enda Kenny says €48m cost of Easter Rising commemorations was money well spent

Contributors to a conference on Irish identity and sovereignty discuss these concepts

NUI Galway summit is one of the last setpiece events of the centenary commemorations

Roy Foster, who is retiring after 25 years as Carroll professor of Irish history at Oxford, says that Irish people are keen on the past but often have a skewed view of it

Irish Embassy in London yet to receive any complaints of harassment of Irish nationals

Bad leadership and anti-intellectualism are to blame for Leave victory

Ivana Bacik ‘dismayed’ by Northern Secretary Theresa Villiers’s leave stance

Leaving EU will not solve problems of disenfranchised, says Oxford historian Roy Foster

The difference between the reality of the men of 1916 and the way they are being used is ‘enormous’, says David Rieff

Review: ‘A Fanatic Heart’, ‘Children of the Revolution’ and ‘The Night Manager’

Often overlooked by art historians, this innovative stained-glass artist is the subject of an impressive biography by Nicola Gordon Bowe

Historian ‘impressed by how Government’s commemorative strategies have worked’

Revisionist telling of IRA soldier’s story does not tally with accounts from time, says historian

In Ireland, North and South, wordlessness and absences have a deeper meaning

Marie-Louise Jennings: September 3rd, 1933 - August 3rd, 2015

Opinion: It’s often easier to understand the complexities of your own tribe from a distance

Documentary to be made for RTÉ to tell story of 1916 rebellion from British perspective

Former judge tells Merriman summer school we now have more equality between spouses

A round-up of upcoming events in the books world

Shakespeare, Dante and Bach feature in a programme that’s strong on the classics

The poet had a close relationship with this publication throughout his career

The writer used her unique imagination to devastating effect in these stories

Daniel O’Connell plays a valuable part in the journal’s rich and enduring history

The 15th-century Norman tower Thoor Ballylee was home to the poet and his family for 12 years. An auction is planned to raise funds to turn it into a cultural centre

Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh: July 10th, 1967 - December 17th, 2014

First in new discussion series hosted by an Irish journalist in London will feature public interview with historian Roy Foster

Florence Letter: The Teatro di Cestello cast captured Frank McGuinness’s play’s meanings