The sexless but sanguine soap is on the endangered list, struggling in a changed world

As Donald Trump attacks the free press, a new study of Shaw’s journalism shows he risked all by questioning government during WWI, a role he saw as democracy’s bedrock

John Redmond’s eve of war speech in the House of Commons turned into a gamble gone wrong, rather than a masterstroke

Minister for Arts Heather Humphreys will represent Ireland at events in Glasgow

With the Austro-Hungarian empire having declared war on Serbia, La Stampa’s Rome correspondent insists Italy must intervene in the war to protect its interests

An Irishman’s Diary about the Howth gunrunning

During the long month of July, the British public enjoyed summer, listening occasionally to ever more strident tones from the Continent. For a while, however, they mostly did not choose to do so

For fear of reviving old hostilities, one French version of responsibility for it has the war ‘appearing as a sort of natural disaster that no one wanted – a catastrophe in which all are victims and none are responsible’

Opinion: Contemporary Western leaders are fixated on notion of ‘appeasement’ and are looking at the wrong world war