Connection to Place will be held at the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, on September Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th, 2025.

Prehistoric cave paintings are among the world’s first-known and least-understood works of art. At least two hundred painted caves, some dating to as early as 30,000 BCE, have been found throughout ...

I am hungover and am going to take you through the emotional journey that is watching the new Tony Robbins documentary. This means watching it again. While hungover. I am doing this for you so you don ...

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 ...

Portrait of Vlad drawn in 1560, reputedly a copy of one made while he was alive. Few outside of Romania and Bulgaria would have heard of their folk hero Vlad Tepes if it had not been for an Irish ...

Natalie Clifford Barney was born in 1876 in Dayton, Ohio. Dayton is a city that has produced more than its share of pioneers – the Wright brothers, Charles Kettering and many others. Natalie wasn’t an ...

Julie d’Aubigny in her opera-singing years – one of the few pictures of her from her lifetime that survives. Mark Twain once wrote “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged ...

Marcus Licinius Crassus was, by any standard, one of the richest men who has ever lived. Given that when he lived was over two thousand years ago, it’s hard to translate his wealth into modern terms, ...

It may be just another great myth surrounding Frank Sinatra, but he supposedly drank a bottle of Jack Daniels every day. Bourbon was Sinatra’s signature drink and Jack Daniels was his favourite brand.

It’s hard sometimes to separate myth and legend from the truth. This is especially applicable when one is dealing with pirates, who by their very nature are unlikely to record accurate details of ...

The Victorian attitude to Africa was an unusual one. India they understood, they thought. India was a known quantity. But Africa…Africa was a mystery. There’s a phrase that’s used to describe those ...

Watching The Life of Chuck, one suspects that Mike Flanagan has some leftover issues from his teenage years to resolve. If he wasn’t a teen maths whizz and a member of the high school dance club, he ...