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MY BRILLIANT Divorce, Geraldine Aron’s Olivier nominated West End hit, starring Tara Flynn, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre next week.

RICHARD WAGNER and Friedrich Nietzsche were once close friends but a serious falling lead to the philosopher vomiting in public after hearing the composer’s newest work.

RICHARD WAGNER and Friedrich Nietzsche were once close friends but a serious falling lead to the philosopher vomiting in public after hearing the composer’s newest work.

‘The Claddagh at Galway is one of the most remarkable sights in Europe. I find it almost inconceivable to realise that a man can breakfast in London, and lunch the next day within sight of this Gaelic village....

During the 1880s and ‘90s a series of Land Acts gradually diffused the sometimes bitter animosity that had grown between landlord and tenant. Over the years new and imaginative legislation dramatically improved the status of the tenant. Improvements for the tenant, however, were gained at the disadvantage of the landlord class. In many cases the Unionist landlord vigorously resisted change. During this bitter time landlords and their agents were murdered, animals were maimed and let loose to wander; there was ‘boycotting’, and heartless evictions. Practically every town and village had its RIC station. These were the eyes and ears of Dublin Castle. Any suspect person, or any unusual activity, was reported. On April 6 1895 RIC district inspector in Kilkenny, Pierris B Pattison, sent a report to Dublin Castle, with photographs, on a case ‘that is remarkable’ and which has caused ‘much public interest and local excitement.’