US indie icon talks about her childhood kidnapping and her repressive upbringing

An Irishman’s Diary

The English singer fulfils a long-held desire to draw on the works of Byron, Keats, Shelley et al

The singer can’t remember intensive care. ‘I was in a very dark place – presumably, it was death’

Obituary: He revived the Irish Georgian Society, and influenced State policy on historic houses

The actor spent a week in hospital after contracting Covid-19

The ‘anthem’ writer and hitmaker on his Derry childhood, two marriages and life in music

‘Jewel of a painting’ dates from 1956, when Freud was a guest at Luggala, Co Wicklow

Artist, who eloped with a Guinness in the early 1950s, painted portrait in Co Wicklow

Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years

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Fitzgeralds decide to hold onto home that has been in the family for 700 years

Rory Gallagher, Van Morrison, Phil Lynott, Elvis Costello among past performers

Glin Castle – ancestral home of the FitzGerald clan – is one of the last great Irish castles

Elegant two-storey residence with three bedrooms