Vortex wins best film at Dublin International Film Festival
Laura Samani wins best director for Small Body and Udo Kier takes best actor
Last poet and chorus: Wilfred Owen's cruelly-timed death, 100 years ago
An Irishman’s Diary: WB Yeats was notoriously unimpressed by Owen’s poetry
Battle of the Somme: Irish out in force for commemoration
Some 600 students from France, England and Ireland visit Lochnagar Crater
Otto Dix, artist on the front line
Although he created some of the most powerful anti-war images ever seen, the German artist maintained an ambivalence about the conflict he volunteered for and survived
Reclaiming the war: Army of ghosts
War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities
Plenty to celebrate on the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir’s 30th birthday
The choir has to compete with the Fleischmann, but it’s living up to the vision behind its foundation
The Great War, by Peter Hart
A new military history of the first World War not only makes the conflict more intelligible but turns it into a gripping narrative
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