Queen for a day – Anne Boylan on Strumpet City and Peter Ustinov

An Irishwoman’s Diary

Monica Seles: The warrior queen who could have been the best ever

1993 attack derailed teenage star who had dynamite on her strings and ice in her veins

Jesse Eisenberg’s Irish film: ‘It’s about the desperation of wanting to buy a house’

Far from unlikeable, the star of horror Vivarium is a refreshingly honest interviewee

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Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar

Actor known for celebrated films like Spartacus and Paths of Glory died aged 103

Love Island: How Greg O'Shea's win affects Brexit

Patrick Freyne: Irish victory in the dating show may prevent a hard Border

My heroines: Cagney, Lacey, Xena and She-Ra

The Powerpuff Girls turned out to be a template for a new generation of feminists

From a brown trout to Rory McIlroy’s wedding: the saving of Ashford Castle

For years, Ashford Castle was in the doldrums – but a €75 million refit has put it back on the map, and it has been winning international acclaim and awards ever since

Half-price cocktails but no scoops at reporters’ club in Cambodia

Phnom Penh Letter: You’ll find more tourists than journalists at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Sisowath Quay

Brian O’Doherty: ‘Ireland does not appreciate its foreign achievers’

The artist, doctor and Booker-shortlisted author is as busy as ever in his 90th year, with projects in Ireland, Italy and his adopted New York

An Irishman’s Diary on a comma mistake

French writer Michel Déon dies in Galway, aged 97

Novelist moved to Ireland in 1968 and his best-known works are partially or totally set here

Tommy Hilfiger and Patrick Freyne set sail for New York Fashion Week

Designer Tommy Hilfiger's nautical-themed fashion show leaves Patrick Freyne feeling all at sea - and that's before the writer's run-in with Kim Kardashian

Angela Lansbury: still a star at 90

The veteran actor, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, credits Cork with saving her family. It’s just one of many plot twists in her extraordinary life

Becoming Miss Popular

An old-fashioned girls’ guide to comportment inspired a teenage girl to sit up straight, make new friends and even sport a girdle