2016 was a year of commemorations, writes Josephine Fenton, but one was overlooked, at least in Ireland, if not in the Middle East: the hundredth anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement signed on May 16, 1916.

Robert Pattinson is to follow in the footsteps of great Irish actor Peter O’Toole, by playing Lawrence Of Arabia.

Screen legend Dustin Hoffman has criticised the way the media brainwashes people into believing everything they read - but confesses to succumbing to their power himself.

Lawrence of Arabia, the great romantic hero of the desert war, has thrown up yet another intriguing mystery in one of the most fascinating lives of the 20th century.

A rare copy of a book by Lawrence of Arabia is to be sold at auction.