The RIC's major role in exposing the Black and Tans has always been grossly underestimated.

Cork will be the central focus for a series of national events this year to commemorate the start of the country's battle for independence.

Des O'Driscoll talks us through his highlights for 2019.

Well-known figures such as Fiona Shaw, Joe Duffy and Sonia O’Sullivan tell Richard Fitzpatrick about the reads they’ve been most impressed with in 2019.

Marjorie Brennan talks us through her highlights for 2019.

With wonderful wildlife on its doorstep and close proximity to the city centre, Westbourne Terrace has much to offer, writes Tommy Barker

In March 2016, I received an email from Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith of the essential arts anthology Winter Papers, asking me if I’d write an essay about ‘girls in the gaah’.

The 1970s (which will be forever 30 years ago for "kids" of my vintage) seem to have produced a fair few perennial hits. Think Star Wars, The Godfather and Jaws. Or how about Elton John or Doctor Who?

Kevin Barry, Jamie Heaslip, Donal Skehan and Andrea Corr are just some of the people shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards

Everything entertainment you need to look out for

Sexual politics, snideput-downs and family rivalries are fuelling the trouble brewing in a small Midlands town.

Belinda Carlisle may have cancelled her Cork show on Wednesday due to a throat infection, but there are plenty more opportunities on the way for fans of 20th-century popular music.

Culture Minister Josepha Madigan has announced details of €354 million funding allocated in Budget 2020.

The owners of this Ballinlough home have extended by about 50% and have it walk-in ready, says Tommy Barker.

In her new book, Valerie Cox meets Ireland’s elder statespeople to see just how far we’ve come as a country

LOATH to describe herself as a vocational writer as she thinks that’s pretentious, Sarah Harte says her need to write is “more like a disease.”

Dark Lies the Island, the first film written by author Kevin Barry, will close the upcoming IndieCork Film Festival.

Tommy Barker discovers a generously-sized house in a desirable part of Cork which has been subtly improved by its interior designer owner

Irish writer, Kevin Barry, who was the only Irish author on the longlist for his novel Night Boat to Tangier, did not make the shortlist.

Musician and broadcaster Philip King is originally from Cork, but has been living on the Dingle peninsula for many years.

Like a lot of podcast genres — and browsing a bookshop — when it comes to book shows, it’s about finding what suits you.

In 2000 the Irish Examiner sent Kevin Barry, now longlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel Night Boat to Tangier, to Chernobyl. Here we reproduce what he reported.

Trish Kerr is the owner of Kerr’s Bookshop, which is located on Ashe Street, in Clonakilty, Co Cork.

Congratulations to Kevin Barry whose latest book, Night Boat To Tangier, has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, a prestigious award open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK or Ireland. It is worth £50,000 to the winner.

Irish author Kevin Barry has been longlisted for the Booker Prize for his third novel Night Boat to Tangier.

Cathal O’Donovan owns the Skibbereen Bookshop in Co Cork. It sells books, schoolbooks, art and craft materials and stationery and is located on the main street of the west Cork town.

Here are five things that you can do during the week ahead.

Meet Tim O’Leary from Whiddy Island: He’s the local ferryman, postman, farmer and publican.

Limerick and Tipperary face off in tomorrow’s Munster senior hurling final. You know that. But the conflict is not confined to the Gaelic Grounds. Michael Moynihan evaluates a quality fiction/hurling stand-off between Limerick’s Kevin Barry and Tipperary’s Donal Ryan.

In advance of his Cork gig, Tommy Tiernan tells Ellie O’Byrne about his comedy influences, his obscure taste in film, and his love of Chris De Burgh.

THERE’S a robust build quality - and both house and site-purchase options – at Clogheen, a detached and quite sizeable five-bed family home, in the very heart of Douglas’s Hettyfield.

Kevin Barry’s latest novel flits between the seamier side of Spain and his old haunts on Leeside, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Tommy Barker takes a leisurely wander around a smart one-off family home with a unique intergenerational link

Reggae royalty, Ireland’s most famous comedy actress and Cork’s first ever Proms concerts are just a few of the attractions at this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival.

Cork city’s Clancy’s bar is set to rise again, in time for its 195th birthday, part of a c€3.5/€4m total investment by its new consortium of owners.

The latest moves in the world of business.

Emotions ran high at Powerstown Park as the 94th national coursing meeting came to a close, the owners of both classic winners overcome by it all as they drank in their success.

One of the best remaining, compact prime redevelopment sites in Cork city has been sold for over €7 million, for 0.63 of an acre, or for the equivalent of €11 million per acre, to Dublin-based purchasers.

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year.

From old classics to modern literary fiction and meditation, ten celebs tell Richard Fitzpatrick their favourite read of 2018.

If you had your wits about you last Sunday in Thurles, you might have seen a club outing at the Cork-Waterford match, but they came a lot further than from Mallow or Dungarvan.

Ardnagrena is a large but graceful gem which has been well maintained and sensitively updated, writes Tommy Barker.

Jon McGregor wrote one of the best novels of 2017. In advance of his visit to Listowel, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his magnificent tale

She stole the show in ‘Derry Girls’ as Sister Michael. Now Siobhán McSweeney returns to her native Cork to reprise her role as May in Kevin Barry’s dark comedy ‘Autumn Royal’ at the Everyman Theatre, writes Aileen Lee.