Maya Angelou

Back when we had more spontaneous conversations, maybe at a party or on a train, people told me about secrets within their families. Whenever I said I(...)

Tributes were paid on Friday to the actor Cicely Tyson following her death at age 96. She specialised in portraying strong black women caught up in li(...)

It was not so much a torch that was passed from US president 45 to 46 but an incendiary device. By the time Donald Trump finally and reluctantly agree(...)

In August 1996, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an interview with Uri Geller, the Israeli magician, psychic and spoon-bending illusionist. Geller had done thous(...)

The sense of freedom that the second year English students at Temple Carrig School in Greystones, Co Wicklow, exude in their outdoor class is palpable(...)

The Juneteenth holiday, celebrating the emancipation of US slaves, gathered worldwide attention this year when Donald Trump announced – either clumsil(...)

Is there ever a good time to get old? If there is, this probably isn’t it. Coronavirus hits indiscriminately – they say – but it hits the elderly har(...)

The actor, known for Preacher, Loving, Hamlet and Breakfast on Pluto, on growing up in Ireland, the movie industry, and Black Lives Matter I fan(...)

And we’re off. Project Refund: Phase One is now operational. Although in the interests of accuracy the plan to complete the Premier League season woul(...)

Ever since he sold out of Batimore Technologies near the top of the dotcom bubble, Dermot Desmond has been famed for his timing. Timing is everything(...)