The first seven albums of the songwriter’s career are given a new lease of life

Brendan Gleeson, Eavan Boland, John Creedon and others pass on advice during this uncertain time

Revelations can come to us in an instant and alter entire course of our existence

Sense that O’Dowd displayed unwarranted effrontery in tilting at deputy leader O’Neill

South Africa’s Faf de Klerk one of the players showing that size is of little matter

Filmmaker William Desmond Taylor, who had directed almost 60 movies, was shot in the back in his own home

Carmaker appears to keep options open by registering Mondeo Evos name in Europe

Taylor also known for voicing Martin Prince in TV show The Simpsons

A Cork gallery has removed the fig leaves from its statues, showing that small is beautiful

Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June

An Irishman’s Diary: The bard’s ‘cracker’ was somebody who talked big

Shaun Usher’s hugely popular blog cataloguing historical letters has grown into a series of books and he's now turning his attention to speeches

Children of Irish Famine emigrants became baseball superstars in the game's 'Emerald Era'

Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years

Oysters and seaweed should be our national food – saline ice cream is strange but superb

Opinion: None of us would accept a student’s homework based on shoddy methodology of most ranking systems

Voters were almost all educated in church-run schools

Sydney Letter: Much of the growing concern is from coming from people wondering how their children are ever going to be able to afford a house in Sydney, Melbourne or other state capitals

Survey examined some 126,000 news stories, all verified to be true or false

For Sean Ryan, at 20,000 steps to play 18 holes it is a good walk – not a spoiled one

Philly natives are used to kicks in the teeth but a Super Bowl win could change it all

Unlike the monumentalism of some land art, a show on the Mizen peninsula scales things down so people can look more closely at the world around them

I was not quite prepared for the assault on my senses the Australian accent would bring

A relaxed take on workwear shouldn’t be used as an excuse for looking scruffy

Many memorable one-liners have emerged from Wall Street, offering intriguing insights into the approaches of both long-term investors and short-term traders

Irish Connections: the Co Laois miners’ leader ordered the building of the Eureka stockade

Gerard Smyth and Seán McSweeney’s ‘The Yellow River’ explores their links to county

Irish connections: William Bourke Cockran represented the US all over the world but is barely remembered in his home county of Sligo

The US president’s rhetoric has the hallmarks of a cognitive ‘stuttering’ that’s creeping into schools, argues Fiachra Long

This weekend, the literary giant will be celebrated at the Nobel prize-giving ceremony. He harnesses the power of language like nobody else

Colgan has had towering successes but he leaves as subsidies and attendance dwindle

FRIENDSHIP WEEK: Twain was hugely interested in technology and struck up a friendship with the scientist