It’s over! The movie stars have deserted the French seaside town of Cannes, the reviews have been filed, the red carpets rolled up, and the world’s press now move on to what’s really important — ...

Film Ireland, supported by Coimisiún na Meán, have announced the second edition of their Journalism Mentorship Programme, designed to empower writers from a wide variety of backgrounds. Over the ...

Irish Wish (2024) is nobody's idea of a good movie, but it's immeasurably better than Four Letters of Love (2024), Polly Steele's exhaustingly silly adaptation of Niall Williams's book of the same ...

Dirt Flirt speaks to Robyn Homeniuk about her self-titled debut EP, how she developed her sound, and how queerness shapes her music.

Have you ever wondered why your dog’s ears prick up even when you hear nothing? You sit reading the newspaper when Toby runs towards the door barking as if his best friend is outside. It could be ...

The genius of Eugène François Vidocq lay in one simple principle. In order to catch a criminal, you had to be able think like a criminal. And in his case that was easy, because he was one. He’s ...

Blasphemous cross-dresser, incestuous adulterer, ruler of the Roman underworld - Clodius was the jester capering in the ruins of the Roman Republic.

Diogenes was one of the more eccentric of the Greek philosophers. Homeless and irascible, scandalous and obscene, he still inspired later generations.

Joseph Fouché was a bloody-handed architect of the French Terror; but he avoided any backlash for it. There's always employment for a man without scruples.

Anjette Lyles ran one of the most popular restaurants in Macon, Georgia. What would her guests have thought if they'd known about her penchant for poison?

With the remake of The Magnificent Seven hitting our screens, Stephen Porzio looks at the legacy of Sergio Corbucci, the legendary western director.

Petronilla de Meath was an Irish servant girl who in 1324 became the first European victim of witch-trial hysteria. Why is she only a footnote in history?