From the family mutt to the guy who works with your husband, Esther N McCarthy has selecting presents all wrapped up

The arrests and internment without trial of hundreds of Irish men in May 1916, together with the leaders’ executions, saw the public mood swiftly change after the Rising. Niall Murray examines a family archive of papers and photographs that shows the effects of these arrests

NO! by David McPhail (Frances Lincoln, €10.05; endorsed by Amnesty International UK). Set during wartime a small boy sets out to post a letter.

BUBBLE TROUBLE

Each crew in the Atlantic Challenge will compete in one of the famous ‘Bantry longboats’, says Conor Power