Des O’Sullivan on the work of 19th century artist, James Mahony, who painted the major events of his time.

From 1978 to 2003, generations of young people dancing like their lives depended on it — along with a host of roadies, rock stars and DJs — passed through the labyrinth of bars and dance floors that was Sir Henry’s nightclub in Cork city.

I HAD the pleasure last Friday of strolling around the newly-restored Fitzgerald’s Park with my mother, on a beautiful May evening.

The casually intertwined lives of Haratun Batmazian and my grandfather show us a Cork throbbing with opportunity as part of the British Empire.... Irish independence was terrible for Cork. From then on Dublin... sucked the energy out of the rest of the country.

A new TG4 documentary recalls the famous Turkish delights from the Hadji Beyshop in Cork, says Colette Sheridan

YOUR issue of June 25 carried a large photograph purporting to be Queen Victoria passing through Dublin in 1853.