Person: Pliny the Elder

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home and gardens

Richard Collins: Waiting for the next deadly eruption

Mount Vesuvius erupted on St Patrick’s Day 1944, destroying several villages and damaging US air force bombers on the tarmac at a nearby airfield.

soccer

Revelling in the Premier League pantomime

Protection of shareholders has dire consequences for ‘expendables’

food

VIDEO: Roll out the barrel of Jameson for a unique blend

general

Wine: Marquis de Plagne Crémant d’Alsace Brut - €12.99

When mothering is the cat’s meow

The Judge’s House Marsh’s Library, Dublin

The Performance Corporation’s take on Bram Stoker’s story is not so much an adaptation as it is an invocation.

Wed, 31 Oct, 2012

Oryx back from brink of extinction

VISIT the African Plains exhibit at Dublin Zoo and you will see scimitar horned oryx, a creature classified as ‘extinct’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Mon, 20 Feb, 2012

Flights of fancy become science of ornithology

Rigorous study of birds didn’t begin in earnest until the 17th century and for some time after that superstition impeded progress, finds Richard Collins.

Sat, 23 Apr, 2011

Underworld gods vent their anger

POOR old Iceland is in the dog-house.

Mon, 26 Apr, 2010

Turin shroud 'could be 3,000 years old'

A chemist who worked on testing of the Shroud of Turin says new analysis of the fibre indicates the cloth that some say was the burial linen of Jesus could be up to 3,000 years old.

Sat, 29 Jan, 2005