Paul Revere, the American patriot, has gone down in history as the man who warned his fellow countrymen at the outbreak of the American War of Independence in 1775 that “the British are coming”.

A pair of Irish 18th century portraits of Captain William Spaight and his wife Millicent Anne Studdert at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon next Tuesday.

Irish-Americans, like the rest of the US electorate, will be concerned with jobs and the economy, writes Gary Murphy

IF, ON first meeting him, you did not know his background, you could easily imagine Chris Thackaberry strolling down O’Connell Street in a Celtic jersey or coming home from Hill 16 on a summer Sunday having seen the Dubs lose from a winning lead for the umpteenth time.

DAPHNE Pochin Mould is a remarkable name for a remarkable woman.

ROMAN soldiers in full battle gear will march on an historic city former jail at the weekend as part of a new living-history military show.

PLANS are being drawn up to create a tourist attraction out of a fort built in Cork harbour in the late 1700s.

LAST Tuesday I just happened to put on a recording of Joan Baez singing “We Shall Overcome,” and suddenly I thought of the poignancy of the day.

THE Taoiseach was afforded a magnificent stage to wind up his political career with an address to a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday. He became only the 102nd foreigner to address the two houses together.

THE Irish Examiner is to be congratulated on the amount of space it has given in its letter columns to the debate on Niamh Sammon’s Hidden History programme on RTÉ on the killings at Coolacrease.

The European Parliament has called on EU member states to support its proposal for promoting the route of the former Iron Curtain diving Eastern and Western Europe as a tourist trail.

THERE is no evidence that General Colin Powell ever danced the Siege of Ennis while growing up in the Irish stronghold of the Bronx in New York.

The Hollywood writer behind Braveheart is penning another screenplay about a fictional love affair between Catherine the Great and a young Scotsman, it was reported today.