We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by.

The critically acclaimed ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ has put confidence tricks back in the spotlight. Robert Hume looks back at some of the most famous scams.

Japan’s Emperor Akihito, the country’s 125th, is to abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne in April, which will make him the first emperor to do so in over two centuries.

The summer is cranking into full gear, though the weather isn’t exactly playing along — a shame that the rain washed out that first Test cricket game in Dublin over the weekend, of which more elsewhere.

The debate of what might constitute art may never beresolved. 

The cash pile at the entertainment firm co-owned by movie star Cillian Murphy topped €1m at the end of last year.

POPULATED with heroism, survival and cannibalism, this true maritime yarn will surely appeal to anyone with a yen to expand their seafaring insights. 

Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea (12A), which is adapted from Nathan Philbrick’s award-winning book of the same name, opens in Nantucket in 1850, with the young novelist Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) interviewing retired sailor Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) about the dramatic events that befell the whale ship Essex some three decades previously.

The final trailer for In the Heart of the Sea is here. And it gets pretty epic.

INTERNATIONALLY renowned for their interpretations of Samuel Beckett, Conor Lovett and his wife, Judy Hegarty, of Gare St Lazare, will be giving workshops to theatre practitioners at Cork’s Everyman on November 17.

The entertainment firm co-owned by Irish actor Cillian Murphy recorded profits of over €360,000 in its first year in operation.

In December 1948, lighthouse keepers spotted what turned out to be a beluga whale off Clare Island, County Mayo.

We must be a nation of optimists — this bank holiday weekend is one of the biggest for outdoor events this year.

GLOBAL coffee giant, Starbucks, is to open its first Cork City centre store, at no 39 Princes Street, a few doors away from the famed English Market.

Scientists have taken inspiration from Moby Dick to find a solution to hazardous space debris.

Goodwill messages scribbled to an invalid teenage girl by cast and crew members during the 1954 filming of Moby Dick in Co Cork have been rediscovered.

Brendan Gleeson will join Chris Hemsworth in 'In the Heart of the Sea'.

The world’s oldest yacht club is venturing into uncharted waters tonight by hosting its first ever cinema screening.

With only weeks to go before her wedding, Poppy Wyatt loses her priceless engagement ring and her mobile phone at a hen weekend brunch.

The Gare St Lazare Players have brought their take on Moby Dick to its home town of New Bedford, says Gerry McCarthy

A NEW literary festival is on the horizon to celebrate an East Cork town’s link with the movie classic Moby Dick.

THE demise of pensioner Michael Faherty, who died at his house in Galway just before last Christmas, was unique in Irish history.

Pulitzer Prize nominee Will Eno suggested collaboration with Cork actor and Beckett interpreter Conor Lovett, says Richard Fitzpatrick

The Passages of Herman Melville

COMEDY genius Tommy Tiernan will stage a unique night of storytelling and comedy in one of the highlights of an arts festival in west Cork.