Elizabeth I

Review: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie keep us awake. The director doesn’t help

'Mary Queen of Scots' director Josie Rourke on her bold decisions in the historical epic starring Saoirse Ronan

Shaun Usher’s hugely popular blog cataloguing historical letters has grown into a series of books and he's now turning his attention to speeches

The Irish actor (24) plays Mary Stuart, who is attempting to usurp her cousin Elizabeth I

Keith Hughes of King Bones on an album of timeless, uplifting anthems

It’s taken us 13 years to convert a Galway castle into a home and Airbnb business, but now it’s time to move back to England

Parliament to be bypassed as EU law passes into British law in run-up to Brexit

Ireland’s image as rebel nation where each Catholic suspected of treason persisted for hundreds of years

Bad news Trump, Brexit, economy, a treasure in a skip and arsenic in the water

Ireland and sterling have had a rocky relationship since 1460 – good news for some, bad news for others

The author of Maestra talks to The Women’s Podcast about novel sex and being touted as the new EL James

There are a number of current European queens but, for most people here, there’s only one Queen to rule them all

Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, was last century’s ‘Man of the Millennium’

The largest and most northerly of the Inner Hebrides has rugged mountain scenery, pretty towns, Michelin-starred food, and of course, a decent dram