In 1801, the first amateur dramatic society in Britain was formed. Called the Pic-Nic Society, it was a group of upper-class ...

Ciarán Roche launched his debut crime novel An Enemy Within at Bridge Street Books, on Friday, February 7. While Ciarán lives in Newcastle, An Enemy Within is mainly set in Wicklow town and ...

Solas 21 is the Tidy Towns Group for the beautiful village of Donore, Co. Meath. We are all locals who have pride in our ...

Independent Dublin bookshop Books Upstairs has been named Bookseller of the Year at a recent awards event. Louisa Earls, manager of the D’Olier Street store, accepted the O’Brien Press Bookseller of ...

Major Edward McGauran served as a soldier on the continent and his adventures are recorded in the two books he wrote. This is ...

Gavin Cromwell's eight-year-old can win the feature on Merseyside again and potentially book his ticket to the Grand National ...

Brendan O’Connor, Oliver ... remains Ireland’s most listened-to radio network, while RTÉ Radio 1 is the only station with over 1 million weekly listeners - 1.387 million to be exact. Brendan O'Connor ...

It’s the 21st of Oliver’s books to make it to number one and gives him his 71st week occupying the top of the Official Top 50. In a week dominated by new releases – there are 13 in the Top ...

Gavin Cromwell has already ensured that this is going to be his best season numerically as stable stalwart Vanillier highlighted a double at Punchestown on Monday. Fresh from a trio of strikes at the ...

‘L et Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920. This was a crucial year in Anglo-Irish relations, when Irish men and women were taking up arms ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.