Throughout his visit to Ireland, many females rallied to help former slave Frederick Douglass in his campaign for abolition, writes Robert Hume.

Cynics tend to dismiss the practice of holding Cabinet meetings outside Dublin as a “Cabinet Roadshow” yet there is little doubt that conducting government business in different locations across the country is welcomed by local communities and provides an opportunity to meet regional organisations and groups.

President Michael D Higgins attended the launch yesterday of the 300th anniversary celebrations of one of Cork’s oldest churches.

Cork historian Dr Sean Pettit will guest at the 2016 Spirit of Mother Jones festival and summer school.

Gerry Adams has said his use of the n-word in his tweet last night was "inappropriate".

As the Impac shortlist is announced, Alan O’Riordan rounds up the candidates for the €100,000 prize, the most lucrative in literature

White men dominate the Oscar nominations, despite the success of 12 Years A Slave last year and Selma this year. Why are black people being ignored? asks Louise O’Neill.

Rainbow in the Cloud

Extraordinary acts of generosity were made during a time of great tragedy, says Jimmy Deenihan.

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.

Some of the world’s most popular bloggers were eating, drinking and sightseeing their way around Cork and Kerry for the past few days.

An eminent historian has called on the State to declare a Daniel O’Connell national memorial day to honour “the father of Irish democracy”.

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

Colum McCann has pushed the boundaries out with his new book Transatlantic. He tells Sue Leonard how he approached writing it and his earlier books

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.

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.

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.

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

NEARLY every family and society has a few skeletons in a closet and those who insist they do not are usually trying to hide an especially embarrassing one.