Then, in 1831, a certain Aeneas Coffey, once Inspector-General of Irish Excise, patented a new type of still that came to be known as the "patent still" or "Coffey still." Turned down by the ...

Quite frankly, Amaechi and El-Rufai were dead right. Nigerians are too docile and possess incredibly short-spanned memory. It ...

A lesser-known one in its long annals is that of the two Richards of Co Limerick. Both gentlemen played a unique role in the ...

President Michael D Higgins has conferred the honour of Saoi of Aosdána on the poet Paul Muldoon.

The MAP Theater will present a rare revival of Exiles by James Joyce, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century ...

One often comes across a phrase in obituaries referring to a person as “the last surviving link” with such-and-such. There is ...

So the Irish would have had plenty of time to teach the Scots the process of distilling in the three-plus centuries that elapsed before the first authenticated mention of what sounds like Scotch.

Chess Club at Firestone Police Department: 5 p.m. Tuesday, Firestone Police Training Room, 9950 Park Ave., Firestone. Chess ...

Enniskerry (also Curtlestown & Glencree) Parish Office opening times: Monday to Friday: 10am to 1pm; email: ...

A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history ...