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"Children learn the social meanings of gender from adults and the world around them". Photo Getty Images

How to teach children about feminism

Feminism • 23 Nov

Dublin's Theatre Royal on Hawkins Street in 1912. Photo: National Library of Ireland via Flickr

How Irish cinemas stayed open during the 1918 flu pandemic

Cinemas • 02 Nov

A drawing showing Protestant settlers attacked by Catholics on Portadown Bridge during the 1641 Irish Rebellion. Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

How a grisly atrocity influenced a 17th century Irish ghost story

History • 30 Oct

Epic and often violent hurling tussles of the pre-famine era have been lost to popular memory

Violence, protest and melees: hurling in pre-famine Ireland

History • 23 Oct

A woman walks past a store in Dublin the day before Ireland begins a second national lockdown. Photo: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images

How 6 more weeks of lockdown will test the nation's unity

Lockdown • 22 Oct

"Over 2,000 older people across the EU will be piloting new and innovative technology to allow people to continue living where they want to and in the communities that bind them together with friends and family." Photo: Getty Images

How can we age smarter and healthier?

Health • 21 Oct

Will clocks still be going back and forward every year? Photo: Cris Faga/NurPhoto/Getty Images

Dark mornings or grand stretches in the evening?

Time • 20 Oct

US president Donald Trump dances to "YMCA" at a campaign rally in Virginia. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Why is Donald Trump dancing to "YMCA"?

US Election 2020 • 20 Oct

"Perhaps those most affected in Ireland were the Leaving Certificate students, the Class of 2020"

How the pandemic has affected the Class of 2020's mental health

Mental Health • 09 Oct

Kerry's Great Blasket Island. Photo: Seán Mac an tSíthigh/RTÉ

Why does Kerry have a lower rate of Covid-19 than other counties?

Coronavirus • 29 Sep

'Excess mortality for the Covid-19 period is almost 40% higher than that recorded for the 'severe' flu season of 2017/18'

Just a 'bad flu'? How death notices debunk that Covid-19 myth

Coronavirus • 28 Sep

Military Maneuvers by Richard Thomas Moylan: a trooper from the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards in Leixlip, Co. Kildare and his female companion, followed by a group of children. Image courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland

What has the British army ever done for us?

History • 04 Nov

The bridge connecting Lifford in Co Donegal with Strabane in Northern Ireland

Why county lockdowns won't work without changes in our behaviour

Ireland • 01 Oct

"Votes obviously matter when it comes to determining who wins a presidential election contest, but where you win those votes is also important"

The 10 swing states that will decide the US presidential election

US election 2020 • 04 Sep

"With more people wanting organic produce that is grown and distributed with a low carbon footprint, growing and raising urban food is slowly becoming an integral part of our towns and cities"

All you need to know about urban farming

Urban farming • 03 Sep

Brewing up a storm: 'storminess in Ireland has varied over decades, centuries and millennia, posing challenges to human populations and altering ecosystems' Photo: Met Eireann

Why have we seen so many storms in recent years?

Weather • 31 Oct

A cross-inscribed ogham stone in Dromkeare, Co.Kerry. Photo: CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images

The 360 stones which show off the earliest writing in Ireland

History • 18 Aug

Hello there, are you looking for me?

5 reasons why greyhounds make great family pets

Dogs • 12 Nov

'My typical workday was at least 10/12-hour days and my family just got the leftovers, but they get my full self now'

'Every day feels like a Friday': family life during lockdown

Parenting • 14 Aug

How we deal with traumatic events

Podcast • 13 Aug

Charles Browne measures Tom Connelly on Inis Mór in 1892 while Alfred Haddon notes the data. Photo: courtesy of the Board of Trinity College Dublin

The head-hunter who measured Irishmen's skulls

History • 15 Oct

'If senior management, councillors and TDs made a genuine effort to understand what it is that the arts are providing to the community, they would have a greater appreciation of the value of it'

What are local authorities doing to help artists and the arts?

Culture • 10 Aug

'A recent study projected a global world population of 8.79 billion by 2100, considerably below previous UN estimates'

Are children going out of fashion?

Society • 05 Aug

'Initially, around 100 persons were cocooned in Irish prisons.'

How would you cope with cocooning in prison?

Coronavirus • 29 Jul

"The provision of a payment deferrals and reductions is a pragmatic response in light of the unprecedented breadth of the economic impact of the pandemic"

What's the legal effect of Covid-19 payment breaks on mortgages?

Mortgages • 27 Jul

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