Building on the success of the Wild Atlantic Way, the Hidden Heartlands showcase the very best our inland counties have to offer, writes Ciara McDonnell.

A vanity case belonging to the fiancee of Michael Collins is to go under the auction hammer next month.

Des O’Sullivan on an important and historic sale of primary sources for the Irish revolutionary period. 

Declan Hassett and Pat Talbot have teamed up to create a play about Jack Lynch’s incredible feats in both sport and politics, writes Jo Kerrigan.

The Everyman Theatre has announced its summer programme, featuring a fantastic mix of classic and contemporary theatre, music, comedy and much more.

The centenary of the Easter Rising has given us an abundance of commemorative

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The Mind, Body, Spirit and Yoga Festival in the RDS runs this weekend and offers the chance to discover the latest techniques in self-development and life-enhancing positive psychology with 75 talks by top Irish and international experts. 

Five things from the worlds of arts, culture and film to keep you occupied this week

 

THE title of Pat Talbot’s new play, A Great Arrangement, is a reference to what the director describes as “almost a fantasy” that Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan had. 

On the 50th anniversary of the death of Piaras Beaslaí, Ryle Dwyer assesses how his biography of Michael Collins sparked a slew of rumours about the Big Fellow.

A €1.3m museum, dedicated to Michael Collins and two other West Cork patriots, is to open in Clonakilty at the end of June.

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Every year on this day Michael Collins’s grave in Glasnevin is inundated with cards and flowers from admirers, writes Nuala Woulfe

Michael Collins was vain, conspiratorial, and probably died a virgin, a UCC professor said on unveiling a plaque in honour of the former rebel leader in Bandon last night.

Ninety-one years after he was killed in an ambush in West Cork, it is surely time to allow Michael Collins to rest in peace.

A new documentary on Michael Collins: The Musical will be premiered at Cork Opera House tonight, says Colette Sheridan

Friends Michael Collins and Harry Boland fought on opposite sides in the Civil War. They also wooed the same woman, says Richard Fitzpatrick

SATURDAY

A COLLECTION of Michael Collins’s letters has fetched €202,000 at auction.

THE story of Michael Collins is the theme of the Tralee Musical Society’s 25th anniversary production which opened last night and runs until this Sunday, in the Siamsa Tire Theatre.

HIBAAYEB gets the vote to land a wide-open Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh tomorrow.

KITTY KIERNAN, now that she’s back on song, can land the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Brownstown Stakes for fillies at Fairyhouse tonight.

CAPE BLANCO gets the vote to land the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh tomorrow.

Dermot Weld’s winning two-year-olds Moonlit Garden and Oor Jock are both heading for Royal Ascot.

JIM BOLGER’S Radharcnafarraige ran out a ready winner of the Group Three Coolmore Stud Fillies Stakes at Naas yesterday to set herself up for a tilt at the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

RADIOHEAD will bid to supplement his Royal Ascot gains in the Camas Park & Ashtown House Studs Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday week.

Radiohead will bid to supplement his Royal Ascot gains in the Camas Park & Ashtown House Studs Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday week.

JOHNNY Murtagh completed a superb treble at Leopardstown last night, highlighted by Cabaret’s convincing, all-the-way win in the featured, Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes.

Cabaret has made all the running to win the Group Three Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown.

Selected tips from courses in the UK and Ireland.

PROFOUND BEAUTY gets the nap to land what has the makings of a cracking six-runner Listed Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

Kevin Prendergast has high hopes for Alshahbaa in the Group Three Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown tomorrow.

AIDAN O’BRIEN continued his extraordinary record in the Netjets Railway Stakes when Alfred Nobel gave him his 10th success in eleven runnings of the race, storming away with the Group 2 at the Curragh yesterday, writes Pat Keane.

Selected tips from courses in the UK and Ireland.

THE Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh tomorrow centres very much on whether John Oxx decides to allow Sea The Stars to take his chance.

NOT all had the shock of dark hair — and far fewer had the imposing stature of the Big Fella.

NEXT week marks 90 years since the election of the first Irish woman to parliament — Countess Constance Markievicz.

HOURS before his execution, 1916 leader Padraig Pearse gave final instructions about his business and personal affairs.

A RARE political letter written by Michael Collins has fetched a record price of €28,000 at an auction in Dublin.