Many years ago, Clodagh Finn wrote a paragraph on what it was like meeting her birth father for the first time, aged 26. She felt at the time that she would not have been able to write any more. Until now

And as we are in this decade of centenaries, let’s fix that lens on 1920 when, 100 years ago next week, Auxiliaries burned out the commercial centre of Cork City in reprisal for an IRA ambush, writes Clodagh Finn

It is astonishing that Belfast-born social reformer and abolitionist Mary Ann McCracken is not a household name, particularly in a year when there has been so much discussion of slavery and its enduring legacy, writes Clodagh Finn

It might be too late to start a campaign to have bookshops classified as essential retailers, but it’s still not too late to give them our essential business

Columnist Clodagh Finn says think before you click and buy - Irish businesses trying to make it through this pandemic need your custom