A bed believed to have belonged to Bonaparte’s wife is up for grabs in Thurles, writes Des O’Sullivan.

Things are changing dramatically on the global economic front, and it’s not just Brexit.

Pick any day in August 1969 and one issue dominated the news agenda — the North. This was the beginning of The Troubles and a period of some of the bloodiest violence that would leave a mark on the province for decades to come.

Violence in the North, the space race, and the infamous Chappaquiddick incident involving Edward Kennedy were in the headlines 50 years ago. All three issues were to appear in the headlines for the years and decades to come.

The prospect of life on Mars made the front page of the Cork Examiner 50 years ago.

There’s something about Liverpool and Europe that seems to go together.

A lock of hair from the legendary French general Napoleon Bonaparte can be bought for €200, writes Sarah Slater

Former US president Bill Clinton was conferred with an honorary doctorate at Dublin City University.

The Egyptian-Revival style was made popular by a little French man with a huge vision, writes Kya deLongchamps.

Ireland’s biggest water fight takes place on Duncannon Beach in Co Wexford this weekend.

The British and French navies renewed centuries-old hostilities dating back to the Napoleonic era during a mass brawl at their annual rugby match.

A British grandfather who helped subdue a gunman armed with an AK-47 on a train from Amsterdam to Paris is to be presented with France’s top honour for bravery.

Kya deLongchamps celebrates the heroic and unlikely life of Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) nearly 150 years since his mysterious disappearance.

Genghis Khan had an extraordinary mind and was a master psychologist and knew how to use cruelty to succeed. A new biography, finds Richard Fitzpatrick, explains how he became such a dominant figure.

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Lance Armstrong has been stripped of a prestigious award by France.

Tallow Horse Fair by Arthur Maderson at Woodwards in Cork next Wednesday is estimated at €5,000-€6,000.

Soccer club rebels with Guevara strip

There is an old story about how people treasure being the recipient of an honour, and even if it may not be entirely true, it will serve to make a point.

A secret code letter sent in 1812 by Napoleon Bonaparte boasting that his French forces would blow up Moscow’s Kremlin has sold at auction for ten times its estimated presale price.

'Pink Panther' actor Herbert Lom has died aged 95.

Paul McCartney is to be given a Legion d'honneur award in France.

Michael Collins has been named as Britain’s second greatest enemy commander, outmanoeuvred only by George Washington, in a poll conducted by London’s National Army Museum.

Several thousand Egyptians rallied in Cairo's central Tahrir Square today to denounce violence against protesters.

A German penguin named Napoleon thinks a pair of black and white Wellington boot is its mate.

Security guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) has left behind his old job at New York City’s famed Museum Of Natural History to front his own company, which has just launched a glow-in-the-dark torch.

An Irish commander of the EU peacekeeping mission in Chad will receive France’s highest honour.

France paid homage to fiction’s most famous boy magician by inducting Harry Potter author JK Rowling into the country’s prestigious Legion of Honour today.

IT WAS billed the chickflick of the year but ironically, Sex and the City sent thousands of women to the classical section of their local bookshop, seeking out a collection of historic letters that didn’t exist.

A BILLIONAIRE media baron with a taste for a lavish lifestyle, Conrad Moffat Black is no stranger to the spotlight.

A single manuscript page from a love story written by Napoleon Bonaparte sold at auction in France today for €23,000, an auction house said.

A billionaire media baron with a taste for a lavish lifestyle, Conrad Moffat Black is no stranger to the spotlight.

A billionaire media baron with a taste for a lavish lifestyle, Conrad Moffat Black is no stranger to the spotlight.

History oozes from an unusual home, Tommy Barker reports

POLITICAL party canvassers didn’t make it to the door of this unusual home, a rounded Martello tower with the ‘For Sale’ boards going up, just as the election posters come down.

A GENEALOGICAL expert has discovered that an Irish builder is a direct descendant of the larger-than-life royal who had a liking for chopping off his wives’ heads.

IN selecting his generals Napoleon Bonaparte was more concerned that they were lucky than that they were talented. In recent days it is beginning to appear like Bertie Ahern may be running out of luck.

The Duke of York faced a knotty problem at the unveiling of a sculpture in New Zealand today to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.

THE silly season nears its end. Soon, Government ministers and opposition spokespersons will be scurrying back from their holidays for the beginning of a new Dáil term.

Hollywood legend Al Pacino is gearing up for another career-defining role after signing to play Napoleon Bonaparte in a forthcoming biopic of the French emperor.

A French toxicologist says new scientific evidence supports the theory that Napoleon Bonaparte was poisoned with arsenic.