Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option

Hugh Lane’s contribution to cultural history is the focus of Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s new film

DVD of Bob Geldof’s documentary on poet has been released

Historian praised for ‘almost single-handedly creating the idea of Irish history in Britain’

Johnny Gogan’s biography of Hubert Butler finds this Irish George Orwell honoured by his intellectual inheritors

Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge

The West Cork History Festival takes place on the grounds of Lissard Estate and will feature a range speakers stirring up ideas and examining old animosities

Willingness of Michael Dobbs to speak indicates potential of new event, says organiser

Ted Smyth reflects on the incisive intellect and modern mind that was Prof Fanning

Enda Kenny says €48m cost of Easter Rising commemorations was money well spent

Contributors to a conference on Irish identity and sovereignty discuss these concepts

NUI Galway summit is one of the last setpiece events of the centenary commemorations

Roy Foster, who is retiring after 25 years as Carroll professor of Irish history at Oxford, says that Irish people are keen on the past but often have a skewed view of it

Irish Embassy in London yet to receive any complaints of harassment of Irish nationals

Bad leadership and anti-intellectualism are to blame for Leave victory

Ivana Bacik ‘dismayed’ by Northern Secretary Theresa Villiers’s leave stance

Leaving EU will not solve problems of disenfranchised, says Oxford historian Roy Foster