Chapelizod scheme was built by trust set up in 1890s to provide affordable housing

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Irish Connections: King Breogan is one of Galicia’s most revered medieval heroes

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Irish Connections: Robert O’Hara Burke’s link to the coolibah tree in ‘Waltzing Matilda’

David Fickling, Pullman’s publisher and editor, likens new book to ‘Treasure Island’

Trinity College Dublin’s most famous old boy is the star of a major new exhibition

Pan Pan aims to give Brecht’s work a modern, accurate update

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Irish Connections: The novelist used it as the setting for a story of feuding mining families

Play with plywood, head west to Castlebar and a new online site for lights

Seamless piece of theatre – part memoir, part gig, part nature documentary, but much, much more than the sum of its parts

The Times We Lived In: Published; November 27th, 1954. Photograph by Dermot Barry

Eduardo Casey, an Irish descendant, founded the singer’s birthplace, Venado Tuerto

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Buyers expect to be wowed. In Malahide, Elaine Jerrard obliges with a luxury touch

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Sectional sofas are everywhere and not all will stand the test of time but this designer number from Roche Bobois is a keeper

Where else in this year’s festival are you going to hear the call of the Australian raven and a southern boobook?

Irish Connections: ‘Singing Sullivan’ became one of the ‘illustrious singers of the world’

A new production tells the stories of how a childhood in Dublin ended in death in Auschwitz, and how a Cork woman was jailed by th(...)

The Times We Lived In: September 23rd, 1993. Photograph by Jack McManus

Irish Connections: Condy Breslin died of ‘miner’s asthma’ in Hazleton in 1880

Some of the design world’s most celebrated makers arrive to share ideas with each other and the public

Irish Connections: Andrew O’Connor’s portrayal of Gen Lew Wallace stands in the US Capitol

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Helen Turkington opens a sumptuous showroom in Sandyford; and Fantasy Lights will brighten autumn gloom

Being sent to a concentration camp at 16 taught Edith Eger ‘to find joy within’

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Published, November 4th, 1972. Photograph by Dermot O’Shea

The Japanese concept promises a long, happy life – but is it all a load of pikachu?

Sinnott’s sideline in astrology brought him to the attention of the Holy Office

Relive capital’s past at Henrietta Street, arrange flowers and bid for Lady Gaga’s corset

Co Wicklow venue is just part of an ambitious scheme developed by Ross McParland

‘It’s one of our most basic instincts; to listen to a song, listen to a poem – even in this era when people have their noses stuck(...)

Published: February 11th, 1955; Photograph by Jack McManus

Irish Connections: Behind Mary Barrett’s memorial is one man’s story of sorrow in the US

Irish Connections: Delicate ‘Sisyrinchium bermudiana’ thrives on both islands

Published: January 18th, 1986. Photographs by Tom Lawlor and Matt Kavanagh

From kitchens to bowls, the outlook is far from blue

Set in 1939, the play ‘Outlying Islands’ is inspired by a real life military experiment

A wintertime trip to Amsterdam in 2001 inspired the Belfast-born writer’s new novel, which took 16 years to finish

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Gerald and Sara Murphy’s houseguests included Hemingway, Picasso and the Fitzgeralds

The writer on reimagining Henrik Ibsen's Nora for a modern generation

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While working in Edinburgh, Irish navvy William Burke developed a lucrative sideline

Plus: a Danish solution to the enduring rug problem, and a colourful Monsoon season

Matt Haig on life after depression, negative reviews and his new book ‘How to Stop Time’

Hugh Kelly had been transported to New South Wales in 1806 for stealing clothes from an outhouse

The Times We Lived In – Published: December 31st, 1992. Photograph: Eric Luke

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Irish Connections: George Campbell first fell in love with Spain in the 1950s

The Times We Lived In – Published: February 2nd, 1953. Photograph: Dermot Barry

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Irish Connections: Helen Keller went on to help transform attitudes to disability

Mosey around Siobhan Burke’s salvage shop and you could find anything

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‘Picturesque’ can often be a synonym for ‘punter beware’

In legal circles, if not among the wider public, ‘the Irish Thomas Jefferson’ is much admired

Published: August 9th, 1989. Photograph by Jack McManus

The Hurling Club of Buenos Aires was set up in 1922, with a Corkman as its president

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‘Contemporary architecture has become so commercial, there is very little spirit left’

Irish Connections: In the early 1900s, a cook from Co Tyrone unwittingly spread the disease

Australian author Tim Winton on why writing is like surfing, why a tiny fish gives him hope, and why the next generation has a rig(...)

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Work by great Russian painter has been in the same family for nearly 100 years

Miss McAlister’s collection contains an early edition of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ plus much, much more

The items to be auctioned at Adam’s hark back to happy times in her life

From a vintage Ford to items from a large period property in Sundays Well

And when it comes to the ultimate superstars of space – astronauts – we have our foot in the rocket door

The National Gallery is reopening, a Father’s Day idea and an exhibition at Listoke House

Skibbereen online art auction includes ‘Paris (1948)’ by Louis le Brocquy, ‘The Prisoners’ by Patrick Collins and ‘Women of Belfas(...)

The murder of wealthy Irishman John McMullen in Texas 1n 1853 was never solved

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Irish Connections: John Philip Holland wasn’t thrilled to have the old enemy as a customer

Trefid spoons made by ex-lord mayor of Dublin worth at least €25,000, says expert

Grand pianos among the pieces from a couple of grand Dublin 4 houses

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Copy of a manuscript page of James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’ goes for €27,000 (estimate €7,600-€10,000)

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His landscape ‘Early Morning, Cliffony’, from the late Gillian Bowler collection, achieves a hammer price of €70,000 at Adam’s sal(...)

A fresh mix of newcomers and well-known artists on Molesworth St

Rare books from Milltown library include works by Shakespeare and Swift

Irish Connections: When Louis XV saw a painting of a naked 15-year-old, he wanted to see more

Irish Connections: The engineer designed a graceful structure that spanned the Dnieper

Harry Potter books, James Joyce manuscript and GAA medals also feature in Mealy’s sale

Late businesswoman’s collection is at centre of Adam’s ‘Important Irish Art’ auction

Sheppard’s shows antique statues, urns and sundials in Gash Gardens ahead of sale

Sale of contents of the former Central Bank building to take place in the Heritage Hotel

This week’s edition also visits an artist on Achill Island and looks at floral furniture

The author is just out of surgery, which may account for why he thinks we have a fondness for worrying about the wrong things