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ArticleTHE NUN OF RAVENSBRÜCK

When author Cathi Flem­ing signed a con­tract to write The Nun of Ravensbrück, she began an extraordin­ary jour­ney into the life of West Cork nun and res­ist­ance hero Sis­ter Kate McCarthy – a woman whose cour­age in the face of Nazi tyranny would...

ArticleEamonn Dug­gan con­tin­ues his look at the lives of the eight men – either born in Ire­land or of Irish des­cent – who signed the Amer­ican Declar­a­tion of Inde­pend­ence.

Articlefor the kids

12-page Owen’s Club sec­tion with more fun and games, fea­tures and fas­cin­at­ing facts for our younger read­ers.

ArticleRemem­ber­ing Neil Sedaka. Maxi recalls when the sad news broke about the passing of the song­writer and singer who gave us such clas­sic songs as Oh! Carol and Happy Birth­day Sweet Six­teen.

ArticleThe Leg­andary Paul New­man. Tom McPar­land pro­files the iconic actor who helped define the male lead in motion pic­tures from the mid-1950s through the 21st cen­tury.

ArticleMak­ing 'The Great Escape'. Mervyn Bryson goes behind the scenes of the Hol­ly­wood clas­sic.

IT TOOK film dir­ector John Sturges eleven years to per­suade Hol­ly­wood that a book about a WWII pris­oner of war story could be adop­ted into a great movie. Reas­ons given for the rebut­tal were that most of the escapers did not in fact make a “home...

ArticleWil­liam McCrum, the Irish inventor of the pen­alty kick is pro­filed by Sheelagh Mooney.

AS WE still smart from Ire­land’s unfor­tu­nate exit from the 2026 World Cup semi-final play offs after a pen­alty shoot-out, it is per­haps timely to remem­ber the Irish man who was respons­ible for its intro­duc­tion. Wil­liam McCrum was born 7th...

ArticleRole of the Irish in WW2: From the Bat­tle­fields – Back Home to Co. Leitrim.

IN MAY 1945, fol­low­ing the end of the war in Europe, the pages of Leitrim’s local news­pa­pers car­ried heart-warm­ing stor­ies of Leitrim men return­ing home, and of oth­ers com­ing back to visit fam­ily after years of war­time ser­vice. The...