Vona Groarke will be the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry, taking over from Prof Paul Muldoon. The position will run from ...

As most people know, July 14th commemorates the storming of the Bastille, the symbolic start of the French Revolution - but the story of how this date became the Fête nationale and a public holiday is ...

Henry VIII’s close adviser was resolute in upholding secular and spiritual authorities over individual judgment. When it came ...