Traditions and history come alive at racing festival that remains a big draw

Mood in Brussels, as detected during two days of press briefings at least, was poised between worried and smug

Kaminski snr bought the restaurant some time after he graduated from Trinity College in the 1950s

None of the five of us who put together the first issue had any experience in publishing

From ‘reaching out’ to ‘grabbing a coffee’, our way of speaking is clearly changing

Believers of rapture theology assert there will be a second coming of Jesus Christ and a day of judgment

The building just across the road from the loyalist Sandy Row area housed offices of RTÉ, Sky and The Irish Times

You wouldn’t want to mistake squish for huff

Its precious visitor books were rescued decades later from a barrow on Dublin’s quays

Might Paddy Dear be persuaded to throw a few million our way, for the relief of distress in dear old Ireland?

Not all of William Wilde’s exploits are commemorated on a plaque

Athletics really does seem to attract people whose names suggest they are destined for great things

His ambitions, however, extended far beyond a modest medical practice

It’s hard to say for sure what drove Violet Gibson

For the artist or mescaline taker alike, Huxley concluded, ‘draperies are living hieroglyphs’

A stone in Rome’s ‘Protestant Cemetery’ commemorates Rosa Bathurst, who drowned in 1824, aged 16

After finding myself lost in translation, it didn’t help that every available TV was showing Italy v Northern Ireland

Each conference was a shooting gallery, with the minister the target

Throughout the interaction, I scratched my head metaphorically and nervously concluded that I was losing it

It was once dubbed one of Europe’s best by Vogue magazine