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Elizabeth Maconchy: pioneering composer. Photograph: British Music Collection/University of Huddersfield
Trillable Syllable – Frank McNally on a forgotten heroine of St “Stephenses” Day

Although she spent most of her life in a country where today is known as “Boxing Day”, the composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) betrayed her origin(...)

Billy Morton with his Santry shovel in 1958.
Billy Morton’s Santry Stadium a beacon for sporting endeavour

“Gentlemen,” the small man began, “grass is on the way out”. Knowledge of sport is no excuse for a lack of imagination, or vice versa, and Billy Mort(...)

David Norris outside his home on North Great George’s Street in Dublin’s north inner city. Photograph: Dave Meehan
David Norris on 40 years of saving North Great George’s Street

In the mid-1970s I was running a gay disco on Parnell Square. Numbers began to fall dramatically and it turned out that two enterprising capitalists h(...)

Walled garden at Glenarm Castle, Co Antrim.
The wonder of a walled garden

I have always had a deep grá for Ireland’s wonderful walled gardens. My first gardening column for this paper followed the restoration and weekly cal(...)