13+ hour, 12+ min ago  (544+ words) Unused parts of the GPO complex will be given over for use as community-event spaces on an interim basis while a master plan to redevelop the site is being worked on, Cabinet will be told this week. Ministers will also…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (803+ words) Franz Kafka would have been intrigued twice over by the small Berlin bookshop with the unusual name. Called Zur schwankenen Weltkugel (loosely translated as The Heaving Globe), the small store is a favourite in Berlin's leftist, literary circles thanks to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (368+ words) Ukraine launched a drone barrage on St Petersburg, Russia on Saturday, the final day of a major investment forum, hours after president Vladimir Putin spoke there and refused a proposal for talks with Kyiv. The strikes on the city and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (730+ words) Tomi Reichental, who has died at age of 90, made the Holocaust real for Ireland in a way no textbook or documentary ever could. For many people in this country, especially for many Irish schoolchildren, Reichental was the first person they…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (729+ words) I was deeply anxious during the train journey from Vienna to Bratislava, the Slovak capital, in 2014. Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental was expecting me there, together with Gerry Gregg's film crew. They were shooting the documentary Close to Evil. Tomi was…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago  (428+ words) Campaigner and Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental has died aged 90, leaving behind a "lasting legacy of dignity, courage and enlightenment. Reichental was born in what is now Slovakia in 1935. After the Nazi invasion of the then Czechoslovakia in 1938/1939, he and his…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (438+ words) A second World War veteran in Northern Ireland who lived through the D-Day landings has urged people not to be shy and enjoy their lives, but pick their friends wisely, ahead of his 100th birthday. George Spencer, who served around the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1361+ words) L'szl" Nemes is brushing off his dinner jacket and shining his shoes. In a few days his fourth film, Moulin, will make its premiere in the main competition at Cannes. The picture's arrival there was a tad unexpected. It was…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (464+ words) The Irish Times Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer serves up history with a human heart Hoyer explains how Germany lurched "from one of the most liberal democracies to genocidal dictatorship" Germany between the world wars…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (576+ words) Ukraine conducted heavy drone attacks on Russia in the early hours of Friday morning, giving no indication that Kyiv is ready to observe Moscow's self-declared ceasefire despite threats of retaliation if Victory Day celebrations on Red Square are disrupted. Russia's…...