More sex, please: Bridget Jones, Colin Firth and the astonishing rebranding of Jane Austen
Thirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successor
Walter Scott
Writer
Detached Victorian with echoes of Louis le Brocquy for €2.95m
Property is on a large plot at the south side of Kenilworth Square, Rathgar
Plaque erected in Dublin for anti-slavery leader Frederick Douglass
Visit of abolitionist to city commemorated at Eustace Street building where he spoke
Bravery award for garda who talked down armed man while sitting on church bench
Thirteen gardaí receive the Scott Medal at ceremony in Dublin Castle
Mind the Gap – Frank McNally on a great Irish institution, the month’s mind, from Shakespeare to Joyce
An Irishman’s Diary
Derek Chauvin trial: the ‘clear challenges’ US prosecutors face in police cases
Opening statements in trial of police officer charged with George Floyd murder to begin on Monday
Ammonite: Even the Saoirse Ronan-Kate Winslet sex scenes are too respectable
Film review: Starring two great actors, this could have been an awards magnet
Ceol Over Beethoven – Frank McNally on the great composer’s lesser-known Irish song collection
An Irishman’s Diary
Kilruddery House's walled garden wonder revived
Another seasonal bounty of vegetables and flowers from its Victorian kitchen garden
Don’t judge a book by its coverage
Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way
Doctors are as guilty of fat-shaming people as everyone else
Fat-shaming, fat stigmatisation and fat bias are increasing – and the medical profession is not immune
Eugène Delacroix: Reflections on a revolution in art
The painter fell in and out of favour with critics. A new exhibition shows his continuing relevance
Ewan McGregor: ‘I have been living a midlife crisis since my teens’
‘If you always wanted a convertible and you get one then why should we demean that?’
25 fearless women who helped shape today’s Ireland
They smashed stereotypes, changed Ireland – yet many are forgotten by history
Clients desert scandal hit PR firm, Bell Pottinger
London Briefing: Revelations of role in South African elections ruin top firm’s reputation
State-backed fund to buy 78% of Enet
Irish Infrastructure Fund expects to close broadband firm deal by end of 2017
Get a load of Blarney: Cork village branches out from stone-kissing
Attempt to broaden Blarney’s appeal sees launch of heritage trail and map
No charges for police over Alton Sterling’s fatal shooting
The video of the black man’s death last summer sparked days of protests in Baton Rouge
Fintan O’Toole: Silence is a weapon for fighting oblivion
For the Irish, silence is a way of dealing with, and surviving, traumatic exile
Cork’s Imperial Hotel celebrates 200 years of business
Daniel O’Connell, Charles Dickens,Michael Collins, Maureen O’Hara among past guests
Mount Juliet horse paintings and important clocks at Mealy’s
Auction also includes antique clocks and timepieces collected by the late Michael Guerin
Creative Scotland pushing for revival of Scots language
First ‘scriever’ Hamish MacDonald says Scots ‘deserves and needs to be celebrated’
Former police officer indicted in death of Walter Scott
Michael Slager faces trial over shooting of unarmed black man in North Charleston
Hundreds attend funeral of man shot in back by police officer
Body of Walter Scott carried in flag-draped coffin past crowd in South Carolina
Father speaks out following police shooting of unarmed man
Family of South Carolina victim suggest charges only brought because of video evidence
Video: Appeal to find relatives of 38 children killed in 1916
Toddler shot in mother’s arms among rising dead researched by broadcaster Joe Duffy
Weekend in... Edinburgh
The Scottish capital had moved on from haggis and fish supper, finds Susan Stellin
Ireland-based e|net has serious global ambitions in telecoms
e|net plans to offer internet access to half the planet who don’t have it in a cost-effective way
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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