A history of the world in the first half of the 20th century is contained in 17 lots from a Skibbereen autograph collector to be sold at Whyte’s in Dublin on September 20.

War reporter Tim Butcher and Irish nomad Manchán Magan are among those telling their tales at the Immrama festival in Lismore, writes Orlagh Ní Arrachtáin

The President Michael D Higgins has been meeting British Prime Minister David Cameron for lunch in Downing Street, on the second day of his State visit to the UK.

A play which sheds new light on the bloody pirate raid of a West Cork village in the 1600s will be performed over the next three nights.

Mary Leland enjoys a talk by Peregrine Cavendish — the Duke of Devonshire — on his family’s extensive collection

The Bell Tower Restaurant, Castlemartyr Resort,

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

The Restaurant Show 2006 is on this month, from Monday 18 to Wednesday 20, at the Olympia in London. It is the only show dedicated to the restaurant trade.

THIS old farmhouse seems an anachronism, surrounded as it is by a 1960s estate in an inner suburb of Cork city.

THE historic Book of Lismore was compiled at the Franciscan Monastery in Timoleague, and not in Waterford, as its title might indicate.

IT’S surprising that, in the Celtic Tiger boom, a town as historic and pretty as Lismore isn’t swamped with holiday home developments.

A QUEEN ANNE house in north east Cork, most likely built by the 6th Duke of Devonshire, is new to the market this week.

HITTING an international market with a world-class property bristling with security features on the day the US attacked Iraq may be a blow to the best-laid sales plans of the French owners of an Irish mansion.