Two Irish television writers discuss their participation in the European-wide VR writers' room, Words Across Europe.

The genius of Eugène François Vidocq lay in one simple principle. In order to catch a criminal, you had to be able think like a criminal. And in his case that was easy, because he was one. He’s ...

Blasphemous cross-dresser, incestuous adulterer, ruler of the Roman underworld - Clodius was the jester capering in the ruins of the Roman Republic.

Petronilla de Meath was an Irish servant girl who in 1324 became the first European victim of witch-trial hysteria. Why is she only a footnote in history?

The marriage of Fred and Maria Manning was far from a happy one, with infidelity on both sides. Not even joining together to commit murder could brimg them closer.

The Roman Republic was one of the first great democracies, an influence on the world to this day. And we owe it all to Tarquin the Proud, a king so bad that he made his people swear to have no kings ...

Joseph Fouché was a bloody-handed architect of the French Terror; but he avoided any backlash for it. There's always employment for a man without scruples.

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 ...

Anti Nuclear Protests at Carnsore Point and how these helped trigger environmental awareness in Ireland.

Anjette Lyles ran one of the most popular restaurants in Macon, Georgia. What would her guests have thought if they'd known about her penchant for poison?

Charles-Henri Sanson was France's Royal Executioner, in more ways than one. He killed men for his king, and when the time came he killed that king as well.

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.