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Forts and Martello towers dotted around Cork Harbour and what was once the biggest gunpowder factory in the British empire could soon be designated as Unesco World Heritage sites.

With 1,300 years of history, Ireland’s ‘Alcatraz’ has been named Europe’s No 1 tourist attraction, writes Sean O’Riordan

Set to move from war-mongering and munitions provisioning to worship and prayer is the former Gun Store, a relic of Cork’s Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.

Colm O’Regan writes about the struggles of forming an opinion in the 21st century. 

A GROUP of county councillors is to ask the National Army Museum in London to repatriate — if that’s the right word — the skeleton of Napoleon’s charger Marengo.

Easter Saturday, 1916.

Each evening, two avian armies descend on the village of Kilbeggan to confront each other, writes Richard Collins 

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The great German composer’s Irish and Scottish ‘airs’ will be played at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

The Government has pledged another €1m in aid to help support Syrian refugees. This will bring the total Irish aid package to €10.8m.

Escalating tensions with North Korea will backfire, not only for its neighbours but its citizens who should matter as much, writes Yoon Young-kwan

Gardeners know there’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.

Remember Perpignan!

We have fought bravely and died brutally in wars ranging from the Napoleonic to the Boer to World War 11. The Fighting Irish is the story of our finest, says Richard Fitzpatrick

EDDIE ENGLISH, who runs a sailing school in Cobh, has no doubt about it: People in Cork city and county have a “chip on their shoulder” when it comes to his home town.

Shackleton and Crean were just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of Irish Antarctic explorers, says Richard Fitzpatrick

CARDINAL Newman, who is beatified yesterday by Pope Benedict XVI, scandalised Victorian England when he converted from the Church of England to Catholicism, drawing condemnation from many parts of British society.

James S Donnelly, Jr

THE chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee is to ask the Department of Defence why it has sanctioned a naval ship to undertake 12-week diplomatic trip to South America, which will cost an estimated €500,000.

BOOKS that genuinely break new ground don’t come along very often, and even then they tend to be academic rather than reader-friendly.

BELIEVE it or not, the British government is – to this day – paying a 2% annuity on so-called consol bonds which it used to finance its campaigns in the Napoleonic Wars from 1803-1815.

Corned beef has a distinctive regional association with Cork city. Between the late 1680s and 1825, the beef-corning industry was the most important asset to the city and the country.

Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume is to unveil a memorial high in the Swiss Alps to Ireland's last Gaelic chieftains, it was revealed today.

IN his letter headlined ‘The Godless delusion, flights of fancy and pointless questions’ (October 22), Oliver Broderick makes a dismissive reference to Hitler and the myth of his Catholicism.

FROM engaging in sexual relations with an intern to letting the Vietnam War escalate, US presidents have been blamed for some egregious errors.

Corned beef has a distinctive regional association with Cork city. Between the late 1680s and 1825, the beef-corning industry was the most important asset to the city and the country.

THE swashbuckling high-seas adventure Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is set during the Napoleonic wars where England is struggling to contain the power of the all-conquering Bonaparte.

Russell Crowe did all he could to avoid succumbing to seasickness while filming the seafaring epic Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World.