Oscar-winning songwriter and The Frames frontman Glen Hansard has died aged 56 in a road crash in Dublin.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Whether you blame the US or the communist regime, there is no doubt that this is an island spiralling into tragedy

There was a language barrier, a mother who burned their letters and a record label manager who disapproved. But Kerry Cox was madly in love

Michael Hopkins was let down by the Irish system as a child and the British system as an elderly bachelor. Then he met a photographer at a bus stop

Novelist Paul Auster reads a story written by Sylvia Seymour Akin about a special Christmas. (Source: NPR All Things Considered)