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John Creedon: Italian, French and Spanish place names were brought to Ireland as the Dublin middle classes returned from travelling, hence Sorrento Road and Vico Road in Dalkey. Photograph: Don Macmonagle
John Creedon: The outsiders who left their names in Ireland

There’s an old folk tale that dates from a time when the Russian-Finnish border was being redrawn. Some rather stern officials from Moscow knocked on (...)

Malachy Browne was part of a team of journalists awarded the prize in the international reporting category for a series of stories “exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin’s regime”, the Pulitzer committee said. Photograph: Earl Wilson/New York Times
Limerick journalist wins Pulitzer for Syrian investigation

Limerick journalist Malachy Browne has been named as one of the winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Mr Browne, a senior story producer wi(...)

Padraig Pearse Museum in St Enda’s Park. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Make a move to Rathfarnham for the good life

What’s so good about it? In a word? Park life. This Dublin 14-16 neighbourhood has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to lovely green expanses (...)

Cormac Ó Braonáin’s bereft parents Eva and Lú at their son’s funeral. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Mourners gather for Mansion House funeral of Luas-death cyclist

The Round Room of Dublin’s Mansion House has played host to many of the seminal moments in Irish history, most notably as the site of the first Dáil w(...)

The layout consists of a terrace of four gable-fronted houses and the pair of longer, thin houses on Kelly’s Avenue and six houses to the rear.
Absolutely rapid: Dún Laoghaire’s fine new terrace of quick-build houses

Given the current housing crisis in Dublin, with so many people living on the edge, few could be happier than the social housing tenants who recently (...)

Rebecca Doyle speaking to Tony Stewart while canvassing in Kilkishen, Co Clare. Photograph: Eamon Ward
Abortion issue dividing generations, villages and families

Rita Madden struggles for a moment to recall how she voted in the marriage equality referendum three years ago. It was a Yes, she finally remembers, w(...)

A formation of Irish Volunteers (above). The Footsteps to Freedom event involved a re-enactment of the march of 300 Irish Volunteers from across West Limerick and North Cork to Glenquin Castle 100 years ago. File photograph: Militaryarchives.ie
Non-Dubliners played key part in 1916, Limerick event told

Men and women from outside Dublin had a big part to play in the 1916 Rising, despite perceptions given in media coverage of commemorative events this (...)