It’s a curious thing – but 30 years after the first IRA ceasefire, everyone can still name leading republicans like Gerry ...

It took time for the making of rules, for the defining and redefining of the game and its geography of affiliation to win absolute supremacy over the traditional world of boiled bacon and pitch-side ...

DOUBT I’m right about this, in fact probably not, but there’s the chance even its staunchest advocates wouldn’t claim the Brickfields area ...

Campbell’s fellow officer from the Royal Irish Constabulary. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, who has played a few real-life IRA members in his time, also has a brief cameo, this time as a fictitious Fenian. As ...

The Royal Irish Academy has taken upon itself to rectify this situation, with the support of the department. The funding will be spent on the Academy's development plan for the Dictionary ...

You may have read last weekend about the town in Spain, Magallón, burying the remains of some of those whom Francoists ...

I then asked the panel to fine-tune the list by re-ordering the titles from 1 to 100, to reflect their own personal preferences and thus to establish which books ... the top 25 Irish fiction ...

The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 100 to No 51Opens in new window ] [ The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26Opens in new window ] [ The 100 best Irish books of ...

A new royal book aiming to explore the "secretive and poorly understood relationship" between the monarchy and the government will hit bookshelves later this year, on September, 11, 2025.

For example, across the 55-year existence of the Booker Prize (the leading award for novels written in English), more than 20 Irish authors have made the shortlist—and five have won. You’ll ...

Each month, we pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story. With all these fantastic recommendations we’ve ...