As landlords’ enclosures of villages and commonages during England’s industrial revolution drove landless countrymen into the maws of the poet William Blake’s “dark Satanic mills”, a romantic nostalgia for the countryside began to grow.

The American philosopher Henry David Thoreau once observed that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”.

Walden, The Game, might sound like a joke, but it’s happening, writes Ronan Jennings

THE 19th century American philosopher Henry David Thoreau was not thinking about Ireland when he penned his famous essay on civil disobedience. 

Tommy Barker looks at two heavy chunks of books which deal with the manly pastimes of wood cutting, chopping and storing, along with ancient ways of making gates, roof shakes and more in a captivating way. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr is convinced that a lone gunman was not solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a “shoddy piece of workmanship”.

THERE are nuts in every park.

Damien Enright takes aim at Palin’s moose-killing boasts

Rock veterans the Eagles have teamed up with US stores Wal-Mart and Sam's Club to raise money for charity by selling a limited number of autographed guitars.

TODAY is work/life balance day. You may not thank me for bringing it to your attention. Because ‘work/life balance’ is a concept we all feel we should feel warm towards. But the very phrase bores us rigid.