As Dr James Reilly and his wife, Dorothy, prepare to sell their Anglo-Irish mansion on 82 acres in Co Offaly, along with their collection of art and antiques, Fine Gael’s deputy leader recalls his first night sleeping in ‘The King’s Bed’

Competitive sport at too early an age can be detrimental as confidence key

Forget Kipling and Disney for a sparkling production that counters colonial and sexist conventions

From Italia '90 to Euro 2016, finding the music to match the football footage is an art

Frank McGuinness’s searing drama dared go into the minds of Northern loyalists who have made their own blood sacrifice in the trenches

Rudyard Kipling’s ‘entertaining, if racist’ short story about a red-haired Irishman

The former Burma will capture your heart. And you will love the taste sensations, writes Darina Allen

The influence of Japan on our design culture is deep and pervasive, so what is it that has so enraptured some of our most creative artists and makers?

Butch and Sundance, Spock and Kirk, Woodward and Bernstein . . . Movie bromance has been around for a lot longer than the word that has come to describe the genre

Authors of ‘My Boy Jack’ suggested resting place belonged to Dublin-born Arthur Jacob

Pte Henry Harrison killed during Battle of Loos in France on September 25th, 1915

Killing of Kate Steinle prompts debate about San Francisco’s liberal immigration policy

The Nobel laureate and staunch imperialist was one of hundreds of thousands of British and Irish parents to lose a son to the war

Kipling was one of the earlier fans of this enamel technique, and the story of its rise mirrors that of Victorian explorers

The countdown is on to find Ireland’s favourite Irish poem, so we’ve asked a selection of writers and readers to tell us their favourite few lines of verse, and to nominate which poem they think is best from RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland shortlist

Kenyan’s performance unquestionably single most amazing display of sustained human athleticism this year

One-time social watering hole of the British elite has fallen into decay

A sustained counter-narrative of social injustice pours polemical scorn on India’s smug elite

Stay clear-eyed and icy-nerved and you’ll win more than you lose