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.

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

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 ...

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 SPECIAL ANTHOLOGY has been commissioned by Dublin City Council to mark the 20th anniversary of the One Dublin One Book ...

The 1970s were statistically the worst times of the Troubles. There were 2,096 killings between 1970 and 1979, and 68 of ...

File agus aistritheoir é Mícheál Ó hAodha. He has translated many of Ireland's leading 20th century Irish-language writers ...

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.