The first parade of Carnival season in New Orleans is scheduled to take place in the French Quarter on Monday, just five days after a terror attack on Bourbon Street, that left 14 victims dead. On ...

SAILING to Shetland is nothing new for me, but this time is different. Very different. To port, half a dozen humpback whales blow and breech ...

Anne Cassin grew up in Balbriggan, County Dublin. She’s the eldest daughter of the late actor and director Barry Cassin.  She ...

Our obsession with the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton is emblematic of a problematic tendency: that of celebrating ...

The 1912 vessel, built in Norway and initially christened Polaris, is represented in Lego form by 3,011 pieces and a building ...

BC: Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. 87: Ethelred of Wessex is defeated by the Danish ...

From 1999 to 2022, Bafta presented an award for feature film at its annual Children’s Awards. In 2023, the academy announced ...

Honours have gone to a host of Team GB athletes, including runner Keely Hodgkinson, who was named the 2024 BBC Sports ...

It seems Ernest Shackleton’s legend has set sail again, this time courtesy of National Geographic and Disney+, which just released a new documentary on the discovery of the famed Anglo Irish explorer’ ...

Shackleton is best known for the trials of his ill-fated expedition to Antarctica, which set off in summer 1914 and saw his ...

In the latest episode of Great Chats with Francesca Rudkin, Eric Idle talks his decades long career and what keeps him going in the comedy world.  We ...