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Glenroe star Isobel Mahon launches debut novel

Date: Oct 11, 22
SEÁN CREEDON meets the popular actress who lit up our Sunday night TV screens playing the role of...

Des Lynam – the County Clare boy who grew up to present Match of the Day, Grandstand and Countdown

Date: Oct 4, 22
Des Lynam recently celebrated his 80th birthday, and Seán Creedon looks back on the life and care...

‘Going to the Pictures’ – a history of the cinema in Ireland

Date: Oct 4, 22
The cinema has long been a favourite pastime of Irish people, writes Thomas Myler, as he takes a ...

Girl on the Bridge – an Innocent Civil War Casualty

Date: Oct 4, 22
Sinéad Brennan tells the tragic story of Miss Constance Tynan, an innocent casualty of the Irish ...

The Fabulous Bryants – a husband & wife songwriting factory

Date: Oct 4, 22
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant were the songwriting husband-and-wife team that had songs recorded by...

The Galway Nun who Survived Hiroshima

Date: Oct 4, 22
By Martin Gleeson   Julia Canny was born to a farming family in Upper Kilbeg, outside Clon...

60 Years of the Irish Charts

Date: Sep 27, 22
Though not so important now, when the first Top Ten was broadcast on Radio Éireannin October 1962...

Myths & Legends – Deirdre of the Sorrows

Date: Sep 27, 22
Gemma Grant continues her series on Irish Myths & Legends   Deirdre looked back with a...

Did Cork’s avian battle of 400 years ago inspire Hitchcock?

Date: Sep 27, 22
400 years ago a booklet held our ancestors in thrall as they devoured the gory details of the ‘Wo...

Classic Film – Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx

Date: Sep 27, 22
By Arthur Flynn A film with the strange title of 'Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx' wa...