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Croke Park on All-Ireland Sundays still has a timeless power to enthral
The Irish Times· 5 hours agoIn Tim Carey’s beautiful book ‘Croke Park – A History’, Páidí Ó Sé tells a story about the first time he set foot on the hallowed turf. At the end of the evening, they were ...
Southgate: The English Don Quixote – The Oxford Student
Oxford Student· 6 days agoEngland were beaten by an unequivocally better Spanish team. It gives the appearance of England...
Book review: Glass and grit in a Venetian masterpiece
Gulf News· 1 day agoTracy Chevalier’s The Glass Maker transports readers to 15th-century Venice, where the splendour of trade and glassmaking defines the city’s identity. In this rich historical setting, Chevalier ...
Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Morgan McSweeney: the Labour power list
Evening Standard· 6 days agoYuan Yang, a Financial Times journalist and China expert, has just published her first history book...
Donald Trump isn’t America’s saviour. His strategic carelessness threatens the free world
Daily Telegraph· 3 days agoO me of little faith, I missed it. Before the battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 AD, the Roman...
Apollo 11 launch: 'If you can survive the simulations, the mission is a piece of cake'
BBC News· 7 days agoIn the months leading up to the historic take-off, Nasa put the crew through gruelling, relentless...
Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport
The Guardian· 7 days agoDefeat in Sunday’s Euros final stole the perfect ending from James Graham, who is currently updating his footballing hit Dear England for its return to the stage next year. The possibility that ...
Cross by Austin Duffy: A high-wire act pulled off with almost complete success
The Irish Times· 5 days agoTo answer a question posed in the Daily Telegraph, Austin Duffy’s fourth novel, Cross, is not “the...
