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The event is set to take place on July 27 and will bring together DJs, live music and more.

The past comes calling at the home of a retired detective in the Booker shortlisted author’s latest novel, Old God’s Time.

Private Thomas Chambers's grim account of the days leading up to his death at the Battle of Somme was recorded in a diary, which was kept for years under a bed in his native Co Armagh.

  A widespread refrain around public sculpture points to an absence of women – or at least to the fact that there is insufficient representation of women – among the figurative images in Irish public spaces, where statues of men predominate. Yet across the western world there are innumerable images of women in the public squares and streets. Is there any public statue that is more widely known and loved than the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) in New York? When th...

  I remember only three exchanges between my elder brother and my father. One remains hidden, but the other two concern music. The first was the appearance of Simon and Garfunkel on The Andy Williams Show in April 1968, where the latter contributed his easy-listening stylings to a version of Scarborough Fair. The second was about the relative merits of the different versions of Don McClean’s song, And I Love You So, by McClean himself and the one released in 1973 by another of the cosy sw...