Philip Bagnall chats with filmmaker Mark Cousins at Cannes Film Festival, discussing his latest project, The Story of ...

CMAT returned for her biggest Irish headline show to date, delivering a triumphant, politically astute performance packed ...

From Electric Picnic to All Together Now, here’s a guide to the best Irish festival for your personality, music taste, and mud tolerance.

Taking Back Sunday thrilled Dublin fans at The Academy with classic emo anthems, crowd chaos, and explosive live energy.

A new breed of director with a new approach to movie making has arrived. And really it may not bring the best results. Earlier this year audiences got Iron Lung, a low-budget science fiction horror ...

The genius of Eugène François Vidocq lay in one simple principle. In order to catch a criminal, you had to be able think like a criminal. And in his case that was easy, because he was one. He’s ...

Marriage is a tricky business, even in a legal sense. Victorian law treated the wife as the servant of the husband, which among other things meant that a wife killing her husband was (up until 1828) ...

Jeanne de Clisson was born in the French town of Belleville-sur-Vie in 1300. She was the one of the de Belleville family, who had ruled in the area for hundreds of years. In fact, she wound up being ...

One of the most popular lunch spots in 1950s Macon was Anjette’s on Mulberry Street. With a handy location for a lot of local offices, most weekdays it was packed with white collar workers.

The last century BC is regarded by some historians as one of the most pivotal times in the history of the world. At the time the great Roman Republic was in its final decline, with the absolute power ...

Nobility in pre-Revolutionary France was something of a double-edged sword. Of course it came with great privilege, and the nobles of France were permitted behaviour that was unthinkable for those of ...

The Renaissance was one of the greatest periods of creative and intellectual achievement in world history. It was an extraordinary upsurge of learning and artistic activity that spread throughout ...