Teacher, author, translator and co-founder of Sean Nós Cois Life

Historian Marisa McGlinchey on death of Lyra McKee and state of dissident republicanism

Community links typical in Wexford not necessarily to be found elsewhere

Brian Dobson, Heather Humphreys, Jan O’Sullivan and others on growing up in a Catholic dominated State

Heather Humphreys says faith has been dominated by Catholic majority since time of independence

New Heritage Council CEO Virginia Teehan brings plenty of experience to the table from her time at UCC and Hunt Museum

Strong focus on mass movements, role of women and workers in series based on award winning book

Paramilitary organisations see opportunity in Brexit – the harder Brexit the better

That’s Maths: New book suggests Arthur Conan Doyle based Moriarty on George Boole

Cillian Murphy to narrate screen version of one of publishing's more unlikely successes

Higgins praises four-volume series as ‘riposte’ to those who do not value history

Science is not immune to allure of BS, and we’re not as good at detecting it as we think

Graham Norton is bestselling Irish novelist for second year in a row

Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

Authors hope detailed 1,000-page book will inspire young historians 20 years from now

In our pluralist system anyone can run for the Dáil, regardless of resources

Property obsession, preposterous meals and chamber pots at the table were hallmarks of the era

As clergy die, who will replace them? Without priests, there can be no Eucharist

Rite & Reason: the story of Muslim migration here is different from elsewhere in Europe

First four in series of 14 launched in Dublin and destined for Famine museum in Connecticut

Before the internet, TV and radio, the role of newspapers is captured in art

The three great sacred sites of Kerry – Mount Brandon, Cnoc na dTobar and Skellig Michíl – are all in sight of one another

German invasion of Belgium ‘completely unjustifiable’

Voice of the female subject to the committal to Bessborough was not heard at all

Review: Douglass, an escaped slave forced to flee the US in 1845, was so moved by the poverty he saw in Famine-era Ireland that he felt he must speak out against the causes of human suffering generally

Ivan Klíma was clearly a dissident. But then the Czech writer was too cautious to sign Charter 77, and now he is oddly accepting of Václav Havel

Literature touches the lives of fellow humans in a very visceral way

As President Higgins makes the first Irish State visit to Britain, a new book explores how Irish writers have treated the emigrant experience

Opinion: At a time when anger and hostility to the church are prevalent, we could do with more priests like this

Sumatra Rose. Harvard University Press. €29.99

Nature will fight back by killing two-thirds of the world’s population, the education system creates conformists and giving love brings love, says ‘one of Ireland’s great liberators’, psychiatrist Ivor Browne, who at 84 finds himself surrounded by women

In claiming Paisley’s extraordinary volte face was based in theology, Jordan shows a poor understanding of Northern politics and Irish history