In 2015 The Guardian named Cork's Mary Harris, or “Mother Jones”, among the world's all-time top ten revolutionaries – alongside the likes of Che Guevara, Robespierre, Trotsky and Gandhi. But who was Mother Jones, asks Robert Hume, and what made her such a threat?

Just as the Victoria Cross — though solely a British award — is recognised globally as the foremost recognition of valour in wartime so, too, the Nobel Peace Prize has gained international acceptance as the world’s most revered award for the advancement of human rights.

Fifty years ago today Martin Luther King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

I’ve always been a ‘we’ rather than an ‘I’. It’s because of Stephen, my twin. We shared a wardrobe until we were 30.

HOW will civilisation end?

EARLY every morning Tracy Piggott climbs onto her horse and rides out across the flat, lush plains of Co Kildare.

Kevin Pilley takes a cane-twirling, splay-footed stroll through Charlie Chaplin’s former Switzerland home, which has become a museum to the great man.

Sadly, the Muslim peace body launching an anti-extremism declaration and asking foreign speakers to sign a statement promising to limit their speech in certain ways is actually seeking to limit free speech. Free speech is a dominant tenet of a free, democratic society.

As the election draws near, let’s not forget those who have no political voice and no vote. Gandhi said: “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Gandhi was born 146 years ago this weekend. Kevin Pilley follows in his footsteps and visits the birthplace and family home of the influential leader in Porbandar, Gujarat.

American Taylor Pemberton went on his summer holidays this month. But Taylor is two things: brave enough to travel to the recently-accessible land of North Korea, and a professional photographer who captured the experience on Instagram.

Indian author Neel Mukherjee’s will be in Bantry on Thursday to read from his Booker-listed

One in three people are classed as introverts but the modern world is built around the extrovert and so it’s not easy for people like Elizabeth O’Neill who just want to be left to their own devices.

The Pat Doyle-trained Six Gun Serenade gave ample indication that a bright track career lies in wait by winning the four-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s well-attended Killeady Harriers point-to-point at Ballyarthur outside Fermoy.

I’ve always been a bit of a showman deep down. My idea of misery is a world without music.

Dan McCarthy takes a trip down memory lane with a book that charts 101 items from our recent popular history from TV show Wanderly Wagon to the Aran jumper to the ‘I shot JR car sticker’    

THOUGH just over a debilitating chest infection, singer-song writer Eddi Reader is full of the joys of life and music.

TV presenter Caroline Morahan is proud to be Irish but there’s one thing she is happy to embrace about her life in LA: alcohol awareness.

Russell Brand is to the star of his own documentary 'BRAND The Film'.

India has blocked the release of a film about the assassination of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, saying it glorifies her killers and could trigger violent protests.

Religion must be scandalising non-believers and believers alike, when they see the atrocities being committed by religious groups that claim the blessings of God.

FOR some, it happens once in a lifetime; for others it’s five times a day.

Indian voters, worried about jobs and angry about corruption, look set to turf out the ruling Congress Party in the world’s biggest election starting today in favour of the opposition Hindu nationalists under hardliner Narendra Modi.

The Indian government must take swift action to challenge a Supreme Court decision banning gay sex, its law minister has said.

How about balance in the reporting of Nelson Mandela? The glowing tributes are too much.

When he’s not biting or diving, you’re worrying about what we’d be like without him.

Nelson Mandela embodied the best qualities of humanity and inspired them in others, writes Bob Geldof

WHETHER in or out of prison, Nelson Mandela was a crowd puller.

Whether in or out of prison, Nelson Mandela was a crowd-puller.

I am concerned deeply that the Government is recommending the abolition of Seanad Éireann.

WITH new rumours emerging of what’s to come in the budget I have been thinking of what the possible reaction could be.

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place”.

The right to peaceful assembly and free expression has never been more important, says Ruairí McKiernan

A second suspect has been arrested over the rape of a five-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case which has brought a new wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes.

Gandhi once said: “The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Enda Kenny was a Taoiseach in freefall.

Indian politicians facing sexual assault charges may be suspended from office in the wake of the New Dehli bus rape scandal.

Indian police have charged six men with murder, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country.

An Indian student who was savagely gang-raped has begun to recount her ordeal to police, as authorities reacted to violent protests by banning demonstrations in the capital.

Some letters have expressed disagreement with the appearance of the Band of the Irish Guards at a charity event.

TO paraphrase Gandhi: First they ignore you.