The Prisoners’ Lens shows theatrical staged scenes which remind us that the events of 1916 were inspired by playwrights and actors as well as poets

Christy Moore’s haunting song immortalised the woman Nancy Spain

Words that were doing a perfectly good job are suddenly deemed to need prefixes

Sands would surely have approved of the rap band’s success in helping make Irish fashionable with the young

I had to marvel briefly at its location, on a hilltop bog halfway between Charlestown and nowhere

Natural monolith covered with carvings suggests Croagh Patrick was an object of pilgrimage long before Christianity

A catalogue of 100 colourful expressions, myths, legends and sayings

There is something military-looking about the birds’ appearance

The Roots author’s follow-up novel Queen traces five generations of a second branch of his ancestry back to a town in Co Monaghan

Festus, from the Latin for ‘joyful’, is a popular boy’s name in Nigeria

Now it’s just a vestige of evolution, with no apparent function.

Divorced of importance it later acquired, was original War of Independence event worthy of pride?

James Joseph O’Kelly was also, for a brief period, a man of two wives

In keeping with a low-budget production, the movie was projected onto a make-shift screen

‘Unambiguously republican’ politician understood unionist tradition, mourners in Tipperary hear