All fired up – Frank McNally on the questionable wisdom of Dublin’s logo
Mystical and metaphorical meanings
An Irish Diary
Mystical and metaphorical meanings
Happy out in Spiddal
Maybe the music itself is enough
Marconi had invented a simple radio transmitter and receiver and the first person to see it was his proud mother
The Film Company of Ireland and the new artform of cinema
The 1960s were socially and economically transformative years
Many young socialites – undeterred by a lack of street furniture – were sitting on the ground
A short drum-roll, followed by about 300 voices mounting an air-and-land assault on the anthem’s opening word
“A gentleman and a citizen”
In the melancholy of that life-worn voice could be heard the cadences of a lyric heart
Another cameo for Macintosh Man
A symphony of JCB engines and jack-hammers
Harry Gleeson was brought back to his home village 83 years after he was wrongfully executed
William Vincent Wallace’s Lurline has a colourful past
His subjects included Gladstone and Salisbury
Even the washing machine barks orders these days
A new exhibition, Birds Brilliant & Bizarre, is at the Natural History Museum in London
Saluting the flag
Irish townlands website lists an inventory of more than 60 places starting with Q – from Quigley’s Point to Quilty
She succeeded Douglas Hyde as professor of modern Irish in UCD in 1932
The party was unusual for, among other things, hosting an exhibition in a greenhouse
For decades, The Callahans and the Murphys was believed completely lost
The epidemic took hold quickly in 1849 with devastating effect
Éamon de Valera welcomed the joint Peru-Chile selection to Leinster House prior to their match against Bohemians
Nowlan was prominent among a group of militant reformers who sought to revive the GAA
Cherished cafés come and go, like the generations that love them
A long-missing artwork and its partial rediscovery
Among the more than 100 Irish soldiers who marched with Custer was a “Sergeant Thomas Murray, born in Co Monaghan”
A 28-year-old film star with GAA-honed ankles sets the pace
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices