The night a ‘sputnik’ crash-landed in rural Wexford
A garda arrived immediately to cordon off a crater in the field, then the Army was called in
Soviet Union
So many jobs are a laughable waste of time. The greater part of any job is learning to look busy
We’ve inherited a strange cultural hangover from better times: the idea that the thing you do to survive should also double as your identity and source of pride
Lost for words: Dublin-born artist Jenny Brady explores the world of interpretation
Watching The Glass Booth we discover the subtle, complex and fascinating interplay of power and trust that mediating language orally involves
Is Ireland ready for drab Soviet-style apartment blocks?
Government’s new apartment standards are so low they resemble the old Soviet blocks. And while more units may result, they won’t house more people
From Hilde, with Love: A powerful, elegiac story of resistance to the Third Reich
The young couple at the centre of this compelling film are quiet idealists given to neither grand pontification nor cinematic heroism
Is Russia’s war-driven economy approaching its 1989 moment?
With the Ukraine war, Putin might have backed himself into an economic cul-de-sac
‘There’s a menace, an edge to life in America that wasn’t there before. And the possibility of dark stuff’
Journalist Edward Luce on his biography of ‘cold war prophet’ Zbigniew Brzezinski, the fearful state of the US today, and ‘Lilliputian’ post-Brexit UK
Convicted Real IRA bomber speaks at event marking 80th anniversary of VE Day
At a gathering in Co Meath, John Connolly addressed those whose ancestors from the Soviet Union helped defeat Nazi Germany
One Man in His Time by NM Borodin: Powerful memoir of horror after Russia’s October 1917 revolution
Unsparing depiction of life under the brutal purges of Josef Stalin’s totalitarian rule
Joshua Oppenheimer on shooting his postapocalyptic film The End in Ireland: ‘How would you tell your story to your grandchildren?’
The End, starring Bronagh Gallagher, was shot in Wicklow and seems about as far as you can get from the director’s disturbing documentaries
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
Dutch journalist Michel Krielaars infuses a bleak subject with verve
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War – A fascinating chronicle of postwar resettlement
Soviet history specialist covers the repatriation and resettlement of millions after second World War
Mikhail Baryshnikov: ‘I know the other side of the coin. I was the son of an occupier’
In 1974, ballet star Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He talks about his cloak-and-dagger escape, war in Ukraine and Russian oppression
To Run the World by Sergey Radchenko: New insights on USSR’s approach to the Cold War
Making extensive use of archives, the author gives fresh details of what was going on behind the scenes during pivotal moments in 20th-century history
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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