Kya deLongchamps revs up to explore the tradition of pedal power.

The latest declaration by the US government has put a greater onus on other countries unite against Israeli occupation, writes Daoud Kuttab

A number of celebs dig deep into their family’s lives during WWII for a new TV series, writes Georgia Humphreys

THE man on the radio said Niall Tóibín could be regarded as Ireland’s Billy Connolly, which established that the man giving the tribute was probably less than half Tóibín’s 90 years and, as a result,recalled the performer mainly from appearances on The Late Late Show, where he did the equivalent of stand-up before stand-up was cool.

All you need to know on theatre, TV, music and art this week.

Three Irish brothers who died fighting for the Canadians in World War Two are to be commemorated in a special ceremony in Belgium today and plans are being drawn up to build a monument to them in their birthplace in Co Cork.

One of the very first lessons in the How To Get Along In Politics Handbook (Haughey, Mandelson et al, 1978) is how to run down the clock in a television or radio studio.

A book lent to me before the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII on September 1 was Dark Times, Decent Men: Stories of Irishmen in World War II. They from the North and South of Ireland and were in the British army, navy and the RAF and armies and merchant navies of the USA, Canada, Australia etc.

Almost 20% of Irish people claim to have a relative who was involved in Operation Pied Piper, the mass movement of millions of women and children from British cities in the first three weeks of the Second World War.

The best non-fiction books for the summer transport you from the White House to Hollywood and from pristine greens at Augusta to sweaty gyms in Belfast. Richard Fitzpatrick dips between the covers

For the generations born in Ireland since the end of the Second World War it is understandably difficult for some of them to envisage the state of public opinion on the issue of Irish neutrality during WWII.

This week, as part of our May Sustainability Month coverage, we reported on a person determined to leave the world a better place than he found it.

Cheap flights, food and hotels are just some of the advantages of visiting Romania. However, there is so much more to this great destination, says Isabel Conway

Three Cork brothers were killed during the Second World War fighting for the Royal Canadian Air Force, according to never-before-seen records unearthed by a noted author and historian.

Teachers will, in time, have to explain to students why life was once so very different in Ireland on Good Friday. Those teachers, unless we risk Brexit-scale disruption and division, will also tell their pupils why the three Sheehan brothers, from Fermoy in Co. Cork, died fighting with Canadian troops in WWII and, hopefully, explain the structures we put in place after the war to try to ensure that we never have WWIII.

In a little over three months, on June 28, the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles will be marked, though hardly celebrated.

On its 75th anniversary of the American Note, in a two-day report Ryle Dwyer examines events leading to the international distortion of Ireland’s role in WWII

International intervention in a country’s affairs almost always ends in conquest or civil war.

Just before Christmas, an EU report found that antisemitism is growing, or at least becoming more publicly active.

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their cultural picks for the year ahead

Tonie Walsh (58) says he’s been making a show of himself his whole life, but at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, he’s getting up on stage to do so.

Societies’ and individuals’ memories are shaped by a combination of emotions and experiences. Character and perception are influential too. Love, especially deep love between individuals, may be the most powerful, the most enduring of those factors.

On September 29, 1938, Czechoslovakia was sacrificed to Nazi Germany by the UK and France, in their catastrophic hurry to appease Hitler. That lesson is still relevant today, writes Yuriy Filatov

An unexpected consequence of this summer’s drought, and some of the fires caused by it was the exposure of the imprint of human habitations lost to history.

Every generation has a tiny coterie of sportsmen or women whose career is a persistent exercise in dominance.

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THE arrest of an open-faced 28-year-old nurse, Lucy Letby, on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and attempted murder of as many more simultaneously impels and repels, writes Terry Prone.

Detectives in England are hunting two burglars who attacked a 96-year-old former prisoner of war in his own home.

The 43-year-old who lost his job over a vehicle insurance row with his employer said yesterday that he drew strength from his grandfather’s act of defiance during the Second World War.

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their picks for the year ahead.

Contrasting ways of accepting the past were seen this week when two mass murderers, suffered very different fates.

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

An unassuming Irish librarian has been credited as a Nazi codebreaker who helped to alter the course of the Second World War.

Corkwoman Mary Elmes was awarded Israel’s highest honour for saving countless Jewish children from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Less well known is her work helping to feed over 80,000 French schoolchildren who faced near-famine conditions. In an area of southwest France the size of Munster, all of the children knew her name...

In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned us of the rise of the military-industrial-complex and its potential to have an overbearing influence on government.

IT’S almost 54 years since the world has had to consider the consequences of a nuclear confrontation in any real way. 

A Eurostar passenger reportedly sparked a bomb scare at a French station after trying to board the train to London with a "military relic".

Former One Direction singer Harry Styles has dispensed with his boyband heartthrob status to play a regular soldier in Christopher Nolan’s WW2 drama, Dunkirk, says Shilpa Ganatra.

Polish officials have started evacuating about 10,000 people in eastern Poland after a huge Second World War bomb was recently found during road works.

Des O’Driscoll looks ahead to this week’s viewing schedule.

Takashi Miyazaki tells Joe McNamee how his little Japanese takeaway in Cork became one of the country’s most celebrated eateries.