Back in the glory days of provincial newspapers, Cormac McGill was one of the big beasts, even though many of his readers didn’t know his name. As was the fashion at the time, he wrote under a pseudon...

Gay Talese was an inveterate chronicler of the New York city and all who sailed in her for more than half a century

'The Barn' is a glimpse of a nation’s troubled past that offers insight in to the tortured present, and makes you worry about the bleak future

Described as ‘illiteracy’s most famous product’, what Robertson lacked in skill he made up for in tenacity under the cloud of Nazi occupation

Former Dublin footballer Michael Darragh Macauley mentions the Dublin 1 postcode, and that goes to the heart of what the area is up against. There is a stigma to various addresses in the capital that ...

As a controversy, linking the street named after former lord mayor Tomás MacCurtain to Queen Victoria shrinks in comparison with the ongoing failure to rename Anglesea Street after another hero, Teren...

'Paper of Wreckage' is an entertaining, fast-paced, and hilarious read — like the 'New York Post' in its heyday

THE definition of optimism is ‘the quality of being full of hope and emphasising the good parts of a situation, or a belief that something good will happen’. With Irish football, it's easy to be pessimistic about our optimism. An academic study could be conducted into how public opinion on the health of the game in this country has evolved. When we had world class players in the 1980s but could not get over the line with regards to reaching major tournaments, pessimism was the default view of the national team.