With these novels, Pat Barker and Michael Hughes revive the long and fertile tradition of retelling Homer’s great epic poems. The Silence of The Girls and Country deliver new and original recitations of ‘The Iliad’ — the final weeks of the Trojan War — in two different but very satisfying and successful ways.

It’s to witness power, strength, in body and mind, writes Tadhg Coakley.

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NORWAY: A trickle of asylum seekers from Syria and the Mediterranean region have found an unlikely route into Europe: Through Russia to a remote Arctic border post in Norway, partly on bicycles.

A manuscript of enormous research value has been returned to Dublin 700 years after its creation there and four centuries after first leaving the country.

Fiona MacCarthy deserves huge credit for uncovering so much new and illuminating information on Lord Byron, she has revised her biography as her subject has become more, rather than less, relevant says Marjorie Brennan.

TAX evaders take holidays too, and they might want to consider Northern Cyprus for their next vacation.

MADELINE MILLER was brought up to love books.

AHAB and Nemesis.

THE progressive Trojan War will be strongly fancied to complete a hat-trick in the Crowne Plaza Race & Stay Race at Dundalk tonight.

KEVIN Prendergast’s Saajidah gets the nap in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Galway tonight.

Brad Pitt is set to star in a new adaptation of Greek poet Homer's famous masterpiece 'The Odyssey' - set in outer space.

Brad Pitt is set to star in a new adaptation of Greek poet Homer's famous masterpiece 'The Odyssey' - set in outer space.

British actor Orlando Bloom, who stars in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is set to appear in a movie with Hollywood star Brad Pitt.