Living

Mike Heneghan on becoming one of the Irish diaspora, from agonising visa applications to the exciting but sadness-tinged arrival

In this week’s Diary of a Home Bird, Ciara Galvin discovers home bird and homing pigeon are two very different things

Fin Keegan asks whether gestures can reveal the secrets of the soul, or should we ask a machine instead?

In this week’s diary of a home bird, a trip abroad has Ciara Galvin vowing not to become overcome by airport anxiety

Fin Keegan argue that modern civilisation needs to reconnect with its Classical heritage, forged in Greece and Rome

In this week’s Diary of a Home Bird, Ciara Galvin discovers its probably safer not to dwell on the origins of your name

Fin Keegan argues that children must be encouraged to read if the Ireland’s reputation for literature is to continue

In this week’s Diary of a Home Bird, Ciara Galvin discovers poor eyesight is sometimes a poor excuse

In ‘The Forgotten Irish’, Seán Carney looks at the Irish emigrants who kept community alive around the coal mines of England

Fin Keegan argues that TV news must replace celebrity and scare-mongering with the real stories shaping our world