‘Thanks to the bogs, life will continue. Just not ours’: The Irish bog and our national psyche
BogSkin, an exhibition by the Royal Hibernian Academy, prods us by showing that Ireland’s bogs aren’t simply repositories for ...
Miki Berenyi: ‘The internet has sent people I know completely crazy. That is not restricted to young people’
Fans of the the singer’s early work with Lush will probably adore the new album from Miki Berenyi Trio, which is steeped in ...
Author Shane Hegarty: ‘I’m lucky to see the work done by teachers. They are undervalued’
The writer on his new picture book, the film adaptation of Darkmouth and kids who never seem to run out of questions ...
Banal and chilling: It took about 40 seconds for US immigration officers to lift Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk off streets
She is one of at least 300 students whose visas were revoked, but we only know of her story because it was recorded ...
Abundance; The Care Economy; The Measure of Progress: ‘The old is dying and the new cannot be born’
Three ambitious new books - by Tim Jackson, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and Diane Coyle - examine the failures of liberal ...
‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, which marks 20 years of One Dublin, One Book, features Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Belinda ...
Steve Wall: ‘When Bono was offered the medal, I tweeted: Surely he won’t accept that. I didn’t know he already had’
Steve Wall’s big viral moment arrived in the grey days of early January when he tapped out a social media post criticising ...
Annie McCarrick murder: Garda cold case team hope new timeline will lead to breakthrough
Garda cold case investigation into disappearance of American student is uncovering litany of errors in original investigation ...
A big 10 days for still-life painting and mid-century furniture lovers
Those drawn to still-life paintings should take a look at Peter Collis’s Still Life, from 1985 (€1,500-€2,500), or Mark ...
Hitchhiker’s Guide offered glimpse of a future where technology would mediate almost every interaction
Sci-fi author Douglas Adams didn’t live long enough to see the technological future he foretold become reality, or how his ...
Yellow is a polarising colour with gardeners. Here are 10 subtler daffodils to try
Narcissus ‘Stainless’: Another exquisite, pale-flowered daffodil without even a hint of yellow, its large, shallow, ...
Looking forward to a future where doctors prescribe time to take in a hedgerow
A new study finds that people watching nature videos reported electric shocks as less intense, a pattern also observed in ...