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Renovating room by room: Taking a phased approach to upgrading a Wexford house
Family took 11 years to complete home, but say this way it gave time to think about each space
‘I immediately fell in love with Cork’: From US gun culture to a cottage in Crosshaven
For this US couple, politics and healthcare are among the reasons they left Michigan. Now they’re living in a white-washed cottage by the sea
Klepto countess: Light-fingered Irish aristocrat Mary Monckton
The Countess of Cork and Orrery was notorious for purloining items and smuggling them in her hand muff
Living next to a golf course: ‘The landscape is just magnificent. It’s a beautiful place’
Elegantly designed home at Carton House, featuring an open plan living area with panoramic views of the grounds, offers a restful repose after 18 holes
Make more of the Moores: An Irish village’s connection to the Hollywood Walk of Fame
The most prolific actor was Owen Moore who made an estimated 279 movies
Never employ a cat. They are ‘unreliable, capricious and liable to absenteeism’
People were outraged at harnessing cats to do the work of humans
Alison Healy on a woman who became one of the world’s first and most fearless aviators
Clara Adams helped to popularise air travel with the masses.
An Irishwoman’s Diary: The earl who left Ireland behind when dreams of a hot-air balloon went up in smoke
Benjamin O’Neale Stratford hoped his creation would be airborne in time to help the Crimean War effort
She is one fertile bird: ‘Nothing Concepta does surprises me any more’
John Dolan’s goose Concepta has produced goslings on three separate occasions in the past year
No expenses spared – Alison Healy on a journalistic tradition
Expense claims were always ripe for a little embellishment
Early bird special — Alison Healy on a reign of aerial attacks
The car resembled one of Jackson Pollock’s finest abstract works
‘A feeling of confidence that I might one day be president’ – An Irish Diary on George Francis Train
Businessman was an inveterate traveller and thought to be the inspiration for Phileas Fogg
‘The worst mob scene I ever witnessed’ - Alison Healy on the chaotic opening of the Shamrock Hotel in Houston
A Time magazine reporter said the party “combined the most exciting features of a subway rush, Halloween in a madhouse and a circus fire”
An Irish Diary: How James Bond maligned Shannon Airport duty free
Ian Fleming wrote that Bond took a glance at the ‘junk’ in the airport shops including the ‘Brass Leprechauns’
‘I wanted a Japanese feel to the house’: Renovating a 1960s Dublin bungalow
When doing up their three-bed home in Glenageary, Yuuki and John Blakeney were keen to incorporate touches from Yuuki’s homeland
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