The Bookstór at Newman’s Mall in Kinsale, Co Cork, is owned by Stuart Gallagher, and run by Helen O’Connell and Heather Maiden. The book sells new and second-hand books. We spoke to Helen O’Connell.

The Department of Education’s decision not have history as a mandatory subject in the Junior Cert still raises concerns that many students may not then study it in the Leaving Cert, and so as citizens may have big gaps in knowledge of our country’s past and its impact on today.

In advance of the Crosstown Drift event, Eoghan O’Sullivan asked some of the participating authors about what makes Cork a special place for them.

Indiependence (Aug 3-5) in Mitchelstown has revealed its day-to-day lineup.

The biggest cruise ship ever to visit Cork will arrive in Cobh on Sunday, coinciding with the town’s commemoration of the sinking of the Lusitania.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is being urged to stop the Commissioner for Irish Lights (CIL) downgrading the range of beams emitting from the country’s most iconic lighthouse.

THE Wild Atlantic Way tourism initiative is obviously a success, well planned and executed, paying dividends to the geographically marginalised communities through which it passes, writes Damien Enright.

Geoff Power reports on his journey through the lesser travelled region of Extremadura in western Spain.

The descendant of a survivor of the Lusitania tragedy has praised a community for honouring everyone on board the doomed liner through a stunning bronze sculpture and memorial garden.

The Lusitania tragedy has been commemorated in a stunning 20m bronze sculpture which will be unveiled as part of a new memorial garden on the Cork coast.

Des O’Driscoll reviews story festival Towers and Tales in Lismore, Co Waterford.

One of the telegraph machines from the Lusitania has been recovered from the ocean floor off the Cork coast.

Pilot scheme aims to highlight heritage potential of lesser-known villages and boost visitor numbers

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

ERIK LARSON is an American journalist and narrative historian, known for fast-paced books rich in authentic detail.

A seaside village has got the go-ahead to launch the first community shop of its kind in West Cork, and local people will shortly be offered an opportunity to purchase shares in the initiative.

A lifeboat village battling the loss of rural services has plans to launch the first community shop of its kind in West Cork early next summer.

It is no longer possible to shield children from the world, according to Michael Morpurgo who tells Colette Sheridan of his journey from schoolteacher to best-selling author and how his stories inform as well as entertain. 

A waterfront slice of old Cobh, and Queenstown before it, has come up for sale, with some novel additional features.

What could be the world’s most valuable biscuit is to be sold at auction.

Cork County Council has helped create 240 jobs in the past 17 months through its work with Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs).

The tragedy of the sinking of the Lusitania has always overshadowed the grandeur of the ship, but items from the liner which go on auction tomorrow show that five-star treatment was enjoyed by even second-class passengers.

IT’S SUMMER again, whatever Met Éireann may say about it beginning in June. 

The most unique connection between the modern ships of the Cunard line’s history and the ill-fated Lusitania is Queen Victoria’s second engineer, George Harrison.

There were many poignant moments on a day of the Lusitania commemoration, but two audibly struck a chord with the thousands who attended it.

The sinking of the Lusitania is a story that has gripped the imagination of the world over the intervening decades and filled the pages of many books and articles, President Michael D Higgins said in his speech marking the centenary commemorations.

David Cameron is preparing for another term as the UK's Prime Minister, the Limerick woman who along with her young daughter died in a road crash in Poland on Wednesday, had just moved into a new family home in Norway and Memphis Depay has vowed to help bring the glory days back to Old Trafford. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Poor Ireland AM host Mark Cagney dropped a bit of a clanger yesterday morning’s show.

Wildlife artist Robert E Fuller paints some beautiful studies of birds - and maintains a number of nest cams around his gallery.

Events organised in Cork today marked the centenary of the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-Boat in 1915.

One hundred years ago, the RMS Lusitania sank in less than 18 minutes off the coast of Cork. Richard Fitzpatrick delves into two new books which examine the actions that led to the unnecessary death of 1,198 men, women and children.

One West Cork community marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania with a poignant commemoration at the site of the wreckage.

The Queen Victoria Cruise liner arrived in Cork today ahead of the 100 year commemorations of the sinking of the Lusitania ship.

An Irish woman and her two-year-old daughter were killed in a car crash in Poland, President Michael D Higgins has lead a commemoration ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania, Joan Burton has defended plans to deduct Irish Water bills from wages and Irish sporting personality Arthur Spring has died. Catch up with this evening’s top and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the siinking of the Lusitania, and one Cork boy has been inspired by the Irish Examiner’s recent coverage of that event.

A Cork couple are running the Cork City Marathon in memory of their baby Beth, a man has been arrested in connection with the shooting dead of a former IRA commander in Belfast, the people on the Vote No posters are in favour of marriage equality and the Cork school friends who share family links with the Lusitania. Catch up with this evening’s top and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Three vehicles used by Irish Water were damaged in arson attack, the daughter of an Englishman convicted of murdering four people in the 1990s has branded her father “a monster", the people on the Vote No posters are in favour of marriage equality, and a special report marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania. These are some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

A pair of 18 carat gold-handled, stainless steel-blade scissors used in the Lusitania launch ceremony on the River Clyde in 1906 fetched £5,000 (€7,000) at a sale of liner memorabilia held by Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, on April 18 — double their estimate.

Two best friends who share a unique connection to two survivors of the Lusitania disaster are set to play a key role in the centenary commemorations.

Visitors are being urged to use the train if they intend being part of the 10,000 people expected to descend on Cobh, Co Cork, tomorrow to attend the centenary commemoration of the sinking of the Lusitania.

UCC historian Dr John Borgonovo recalls the response to the sinking of the Lusitania in his native US, which took another two years to enter the Great War