Never mind the meek and the poor in spirit – here’s a new VIP list of entrants to the kingdom of heaven

Tailteann Games was held nearby in old times when, perhaps, Monaghan may have fared better than Louth

Security concerns at Dublin Castle are leading to drastic measures, but not for the first time

As an exiled Monaghan supporter, it’s fair to say this has been a freakish summer for the county fans

Decades of using typewriters and computer keyboards have since obliterated all confidence in my cursive writing style

You can take a stand in the pub, but make sure to stand a drink too

Prince Edward Island has a distinctly Irish flavour, with McKennas to the fore – but that’s only half the story

An ancestor of visiting Canadian prime minister Mark Carney took part in a ‘great cattle drive’ in defiance of landowner Lord Sligo

More than most places in Dublin, Ringsend is pivotal to Ulysses, as the focal point of the first date between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle

On Bloomsday, how would Joyce rewrite his masterpiece for a Dublin of Deliveroo, Instagram, Lidl and Tinder?

With its small stone bridges and babbling stream, the Co Mayo village made for a picture-postcard backdrop for a returning Irish emigrant

Parish priest Canon McCabe was the driving force behind the creation of St Michael’s Hospital, which officially opened in Kingstown on June 12th, 1876

We know Dignam died of a Monday. But Monday is not an official cause of death, even in Ireland

Snow was not general in Ireland at the weekend, but unseasonably treacherous weather was

There are several hundred medieval Irish volumes, including a dictionary that has definitions with a surprising contemporary resonance