Patrick Kavanagh is a poet and novelist who has also found time to broadcast on both Radio Eireann and the BBC. As Benedict Kiely points… Read More »Patrick Kavanagh country: a guide through County Monaghan
The All-Ireland Final of the 2025 Irish Restaurant Awards took place at the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road, where over 1,000 of the country’s top hospitality… Read More »Irish Restaurant Awards 2025 winners announced – Cork location takes the top spot
Burial sites older than the pyramids of Giza, real Irish castles, rollercoasters, and a zoo! County Meath most certainly has something for everyone. County Meath,… Read More »The top five tourist attractions in County Meath
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) has confirmed that human remains have been found in Annyalla Cemetery in Co Monaghan. The… Read More »Human remains found in Co Monaghan cemetery that had been searched for ‘Disappeared’ victim
Dr. Michael Ryan, the Co Sligo native who is the Executive Director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme, will be exiting his… Read More »Irish doctor exiting WHO’s executive management team amid cost cuts
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Iveagh House and Gardens, St. Stephen’s Green, housing for staff – everywhere you look in Ireland’s capital you see Guinness’s mark.… Read More »The Guinness family’s influence on Dublin extends far beyond pints of stout
The seventh annual Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards took place at the Royal College of Physicians, shining a light on the positive impact of individuals,… Read More »Irish Red Cross celebrates Humanitarian Awards with five winners
The story of Thomas Kent is one of the stranger episodes that happened after the rebellion in Dublin had been quelled. Unlike the Dublin rebels,… Read More »On This Day: 1916 Easter Rising leader Thomas Kent executed
Editor’s Note: For Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day) on May 8, we’re resharing this 2012 article about Bernard Kelly’s book “Returning Home” as a… Read More »The Irish World War II shame – Irish soldiers faced hostility after arriving home
In 1967, aged 11, I was sent to “the Brow,” the Christian Brothers School in Derry, Northern Ireland. The school was perched on the Brow… Read More »A life in a day at a Derry school in 1972
