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Actor Barry Fitzgerald taken on the set of John Ford’s film ‘The Quiet Man’ in Co Mayo around 1951. Photograph: The Irish Times
Barry Fitzgerald: the civil servant who became one of Ireland’s first Hollywood stars
  • Abroad
  • September 24, 2019, 07:20

Barry Fitzgerald was a man with a talent for creating conundrums for the good people at the Academy. Not only did he cause an upset by being nominated(...)

Annie Besant filled halls across Britain as one of the National Secular Society’s most effective public speakers, and worked as a journalist for the National Reformer.
Annie Besant, the first woman to endorse birth control
  • Abroad
  • November 27, 2018, 10:00

In 1874, Annie Besant left her controlling husband and reinvented herself as one of Victorian Britain’s leading activists. Fifteen years later, she re(...)

A demonstrator holds a pro-Brexit sign and a US flag, as the speech by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is interrupted. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters
Sadiq Khan’s speech disrupted by Trump supporters
  • US
  • January 13, 2018

A group of protesters backing US president Donald Trump and Brexit have disrupted a speech by the London mayor Sadiq Khan. Mr Kahn’s address on gende(...)

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, described by one of his party MPs as being “like the accelerator on a bus that’s going over a cliff”. Photograph:Toby Melville/Reuters
London Letter: Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour on edge of electoral cliff

Jeremy Corbyn’s attempt at a new year relaunch this week was, like most of his initiatives, widely ridiculed in the press and greeted with contemptuo(...)

Brexit referendum: Remainers need not stand up the prediction of a post-Brexit meltdown, only the noticeable and sustained dip in prosperity that most economists expect. Photograph: Thinkstock
Janan Ganesh: Anti-Brexit campaigners need to focus

Barack Obama’s speeches trace a picture of the world as it could be if only people had the vision and moral depth of, for instance, Obama. This week, (...)