A 19th-century drawing by Lady Chatterton has led to the rediscovery of a 4,000-year-old prehistoric tomb thought to have been destroyed

The Israeli military is currently killing children at a rate of 100 per day. How many more will die before sport takes a stand?

In 2017, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland commissioned artist Vera Klute to paint a portrait of Ethna Gaffney, its first female professor.

Maeve Brennan was much better known in New York than she was at home — having made a name for herself as a copy editor at ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ magazine and later as a staff writer at ‘The New Yorker’.

For a long time seen merely as the wife of Irish rebel Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, a new film reclaims the life and work of the Clonakilty woman who played a pivotal role in Ireland’s fight for independence

Without Anne Hickey, there might be much less to see at Newgrange passage tomb in Co Meath, where people will gather today, or go online, to see if the rising sun streams into the inner chamber on the last day of the winter solstice.

National Crossword Day on Thursday, December 21, marks the publication of the first crossword in 1913 and gives us the perfect excuse to remember the Irishwoman who could compile a cryptic crossword in an hour

Just eight of the 44 attended level-crossings are operated by people who still live at the crossing. Soon, there will be none

It might not be the time to extol the virtues of a fuel-inefficient luxury car, but Letitia Overend, philanthropist, farmer, and amateur mechanic, couldn’t say enough for the Rolls Royce she bought in 1927 for £1,700.

Infamy and Bonaparte are words that often appear in the same sentence, as we have been reminded by the release of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, a biopic of the ‘infamous’ emperor.