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Character was a comic staple on stage: sentimental, buffoonish, cowardly but popular
Is stone carving discovered in Meath the face of Catherine de Valois?
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Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: ‘I fought my way up from the mean streets of Rathgar’
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Dunkirk review: No guts but plenty of glory in Nolan’s heavy calibre war film
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Their Finest review: Oh! What a lovely war film
A great ensemble cast, featuring Gemma Arterton, Richard E Grant and Bill Nighy, put in a sterling effort in this second World War-set film-within-a-film comedy
Momentum all with Jeremy Corbyn as Labour members wield the S word
Socialism back on agenda as supporters discuss ways to build on leader’s victory
Brexit: ‘Shakespeare’s view of the world was a European view’
In the Bard’s home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon confusion and uncertainty reign supreme
‘What ish my nation?’ Shakespeare’s Irish connections
William Shakespeare’s approach to Ireland mirrored contemporary anxieties about England’s long, brutal slog of a war here
Will Mike Ashley of Sports Direct really take on Westminster?
The company boss is to appear before MPs to answer questions on working conditions
Peter Crawley’s 2015: Gender and history get a stunning makeover
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Princess Michael of Kent on the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt
The royal author of historical fiction recounts the story of one of history’s most famous battles and most dramatic victories
On this day: October 25th, 1415 – Agincourt: the battle immortalised by Shakespeare
Eileen Battersby reflects on how conflict has inspired great literature, from Milton to Tolstoy, and among the greatest is Henry V
‘Minder’ star George Cole dies aged 90
Actor best remembered for playing the camel-coated villain Arthur Daley
‘I like feeling out of my depth’: how Jessie Buckley went from Kerry to the West End
Killarney’s Jessie Buckley is to share a stage with Jude Law in a West End production of ‘Henry V’. The experience has been terrifying and ‘completely liberating’
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