Paris Letter: Dancer titillated audiences while working for the French Resistance

Concentration camp victim among 52 people to be remembered in Westminster Abbey

An Appreciation

Review: Director leans too heavily towards sentimental and sensational

French president hoping to be seen as a modern-day de Gaulle as he eyes re-election

Paris Letter: Quadruple commemorations for wartime leader on anniversary of 1940 speech

As the world that made Samuel Beckett who he was becomes magically apparent, the point of Dead Centre’s unusual approach begins to makes sense

Meet the Galway man carving kitchen implements using age-old techniques

After his resignation as French president 50 years ago the general visited Sneem

Paris Letter: Sixty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle created the Fifth Republic

Joyce, Binchy and O’Brien show ‘a link between lapsed Catholics and philo-semitism’

Review: Robert Gildea believes France downplayed the extent of its collaboration with Nazi Germany to help it cope with the trauma of defeat and occupation. His vivid, convincing new account focuses on the groups that did resist Hitler: communists, republicans, anti-fascists and, above all, women

Veterans reminisce on 70th anniversary of formal end to second World War

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Michael d’Alton given Légion d’Honneur by French ambassador Jean Pierre-Thébault