A campaign will be launched tonight to rename some of Cork City’s best-known streets which commemorate British “aristocrats and war criminals” after Irish heroes.

 

Kya deLongchamps looks at some of the most extravagant gifts in history.

Prime minister David Cameron is Britain’s most popular major party leader and his Conservative Party the most trusted on the economy after helping revive it. However, win or lose a knife-edge election today, his career hangs by a thread.

A chance encounter with two Americans tracing their ancestry has prompted a book exploring a notorious ‘miscarriage of justice’ in 18th century Youghal.

Terence Dooley

A hoard of 17th century gold coins found in a Co Tipperary pub earlier this year is back on “home” territory for a month-long exhibition.

HOW is it that experienced collectors can name the wood of a piece in one glance?

THE uniquely-labelled Cork Regency mirror featured on this page last week, the Cork clock and the tile pictures of King William of Orange and his Queen, are amongst the lots from the Fort William collection generating huge interest.

A FARM of land due up for auction on September 29 next has a long and very interesting history.

THE skulls of tens of thousands of Irish butchered in 16th and 17th-century battles were exported to Britain where they were ground up and consumed by the English aristocracy, including monarchs, in the belief they could cure illnesses and heal wounds.

SIR Humphrey Gilbert was the Pol Pot of his generation when it came to amassing Irish skulls, many of which ended up being used as medicine by the English aristocracy.

YOU couldn’t blame the poor postman for stopping his van and rubbing his eyes in disbelief.

Royal inbreeding extinguished the Spanish Habsburg dynasty which ended with the death of King Charles II in 1700, genetic evidence suggests.

ACCORDING to Dr Ferdia Marnel of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Ireland has a new wild mammal.

I GOT INTO an argument with someone the other day about the life expectancy of trees.

Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond is investigating the affairs of British kings and queens and their illegitimate offspring.

There’s excitement in Hollywood about the new British film Stage Beauty, starring Billy Crudup, Clare Danes and Rupert Everett.

A TEENAGE boy accused of cutting the head off a body in a graveyard tomb yesterday admitted he kicked down the door of a mausoleum as a practical joke.

HERE’S an alternative scenario to Fergus Finlay’s tongue-in-cheek look at the year ahead (Irish Examiner, Dec 30).