An elderly man accused of killing three people outside Jewish sites in Kansas has been identified as a former Ku Klux Klan chief.

Escaped slave Frederick Douglass was made welcome in Cork, but he later fell out with our own Apostle of Temperance, writes Laurence Fenton

A plaque commemorating the visit to Ireland of a former slave and influential anti-slavery campaigner during the Famine was unveiled yesterday.

Richard Fitzpatrick picks his top summer reads — don’t go to the beach without one of these in your bag.

THE fascinating archive of businessman Richard Dowden, who was the mayor of Cork in 1845, has finally been catalogued after a painstaking 12-month project by staff at the Cork City and County Archives.

A commemorative plaque was unveiled at the Imperial Hotel in Cork yesterday to mark a visit to the city 167 years ago by one of the most iconic figures in American history.

A man spotted dressed in a ‘goat suit’ among a herd of wild goats in the mountains of northern Utah has wildlife officials worried he could be in danger as hunting season approaches.

WRITER and actor Dónal O’Kelly is looking forward to bringing his play, The Cambria, to Cork’s Everyman Palace Theatre from November 1-3.

US Democrats living in Ireland who support President Barack Obama travelled from the four corners of Ireland for a celebration held in the president’s honour ahead of his visit today.

Long before Barack Obama wrote about the audacity of hope, Frederick Douglass lived it. Dan Buckley hails the greatness of a man whose only weapons were self-belief and powerful words

HOPES that US President Barack Obama will visit Cork this month are fading fast.

BARACK Obama has been invited to become the third US president to be conferred with the Freedom of the City of Cork.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has been officially invited to Cork by University College Cork (UCC) who sent an invite to the White House on Monday.

BACK-TO-BACK state visits will take place at the end of May, with US President Barack Obama likely to arrive on the 21st — just a day after the Queen of England departs.

THE director of a West Cork animal rescue centre has warned of a “desperate winter ahead for horses”.

A WOMAN who suffered serious facial burns in the London terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005, backed the launch of a £50,000 (about €60,000) hospital fundraising appeal to help fellow burns victims.

CAN we get him? Yes we can.

SOME of Washington’s most influential political figures have backed ambitious plans to invite US President Barack Obama to Cork.

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama received a proud welcome from the annual NAACP convention, but in a stirring speech to the nation’s oldest civil rights organisation, he nonetheless insisted blacks must show greater responsibility for improving their own lives.