The Irish Times

Entertainer Josephine Baker joins elite in France’s Panthéon

Paris Letter: Dancer titillated audiences while working for the French Resistance

Wed Nov 24 2021 - 01:00

Irish civilian dead of WW2 to be recognised as Commonwealth casualties

Concentration camp victim among 52 people to be remembered in Westminster Abbey

Fri Jan 29 2021 - 11:19

James Roderick (Roddy) Evans – skilled surgeon devoted to faith and creating peace

An Appreciation

Sun Sept 20 2020 - 15:01

Resistance: Marcel Marceau’s extraordinary early life helping Jewish children flee France

Review: Director leans too heavily towards sentimental and sensational

Fri Jun 19 2020 - 06:00

Macron indulges in self-flattery with homage to Charles de Gaulle

French president hoping to be seen as a modern-day de Gaulle as he eyes re-election

Thu Jun 18 2020 - 19:30

Macron leads months-long homage to Charles de Gaulle

Paris Letter: Quadruple commemorations for wartime leader on anniversary of 1940 speech

Mon Mar 09 2020 - 20:00

The play with no performers: Beckett’s Room is something between a conjuring act and a weird dream

As the world that made Samuel Beckett who he was becomes magically apparent, the point of Dead Centre’s unusual approach begins to makes sense

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00

Home Front: Are these the finest wooden spoons you can get?

Meet the Galway man carving kitchen implements using age-old techniques

Sat Jun 29 2019 - 00:00

When Charles de Gaulle came to Ireland for six weeks

After his resignation as French president 50 years ago the general visited Sneem

Thu Jun 13 2019 - 01:00

The beginning of French politics as we know it

Paris Letter: Sixty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle created the Fifth Republic

Tue Sept 04 2018 - 01:00

Lapsed Irish Catholics ‘most sympathetic’ to Jews, says author

Joyce, Binchy and O’Brien show ‘a link between lapsed Catholics and philo-semitism’

Tue Jun 20 2017 - 20:41

Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance, by Robert Gildea

Review: Robert Gildea believes France downplayed the extent of its collaboration with Nazi Germany to help it cope with the trauma of defeat and occupation. His vivid, convincing new account focuses on the groups that did resist Hitler: communists, republicans, anti-fascists and, above all, women

Sat Sept 05 2015 - 00:42