Richard Harris

Dubliner began by playing union as a child before trying his hand at other code

Harris demonstrates his sporting prowess in Lindsay Anderson’s debut feature as director

Other auction highlights include signed Harry Potter books and a diamond ring

Brown Bag's second instalment of McCourt-inspired tale surges with impressive recreations of Limerick

Altavilla is a six-bed Georgian house on 22 acres which once hosted film stars

Benefits to mental health every bit as important as the physical ones when going running

Munster truly announced themselves as a force in European rugby by beating Toulouse

History has proven that Ireland’s Call ‘has ticked the box it was supposed to tick’

The ‘anthem’ writer and hitmaker on his Derry childhood, two marriages and life in music

In August 1972 the actor released a record of his poem, written because he thought politicans had tried and failed

Limerick Rose and Love Island’s Greg O’Shea both went to Crescent College

Angela’s Ashes returns to Dublin in September. What’s it like to see your family’s story of growing up in poverty as a musical?

Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims

Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....

Overdale, an elegant nine-bed gem, stands on one of the city’s most distinguished roads

From Macnas parades and the Bram Stoker Festival to Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

Peter Broderick on ‘music that penetrates deeply into the heart’

Aspiring stars must submit an audition tape by Friday for a chance to perform in the show

Global Irish Festival Series aims to boost local and community tourism

In Conversation: Entrepreneur David McCourt lives in The Merrion Hotel in Dublin, where Peter McCann is the general manager

Movie cats are malicious. Dogs can be savage. But horses are always brave, handsome and stoic

The Westmeath resident and son of Irish parents felt no sentiment towards Ireland

Francis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’ feels like a career-launching film

It is the second-biggest movie franchise of all time, but the films are slaves to the text

The King Arthur actor discusses why he won't be making a claim to be king of the Geordies any time soon, and how his bromance with Guy Ritchie set the pace for the ‘Lads of the Round Table’

For Denmark-based Irish filmmaker David Bourke, the proximity to nature is the best thing about living in Nødebo

Former archbishop John Charles McQuaid is among those roaming the theatre long after the curtain comes down, say the theatre's backstage staff

Jeff Nichols’s crusading love story bravely focuses on the domestic over the public, the personal over the political

Donald Clarke selects some stand-out pictures from veteran actor’s career

Honorary Irishman was among the cleverest actors of his (or any other) generation

In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

‘There has never been – nor will there ever be – a better time to buy brown furniture’

City’s famous son would be proud of festival, especially as it was not set up by establisment

Where’s the evidence that the Government can actually do big things?

American funding was small beer compared to activities in Ireland

Irish involvement in Academy Awards stems from Dubliner who designed the statuette

Jason Johnson, author of ‘Sinker’, on the ‘alco-sumo warrior’ who inspired him to drink, and now to write

President tells memorial at the Old Vic in London of friendship with mischievous actor

Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ brought new style of theatrical weight to cinema

20th anniversary world tour of ‘Riverdance’ one of planned highlights