Richard Kearney's latest work, Navigations, is a fascinating examination of the Irish literary and artistic landscape that reveals something of the psyche of modern Ireland.

The rise of Napoleon, revealing relationships and restoring an empire

An irreverent, joyful look at women's lives in the 1960s.

Éirígí* have reacted angrily after the RUC-PSNI opened fire with plastic bullets last Wednesday night  during rioting in a unionist housing estate in Bangor, county Down.

I am responding to the article that was sent to me by your FeedBlitz system regarding the report on the study into why so many young people don't vote, and the conclusion it came to that there would be more votes if voting by SMS or over the web was facilitated. I am an IT professional and currently work in the financial services industry designing and developing IT systems. I have been interested in electronic voting for the last 3 or 4 years. I am not currently active with any organisation that campaigns either for or against electronic voting systems.

Most reports on the British Army's Operation Banner give the exact number of British soldiers killed but don't include the number of Irish citizens killed by British Forces either directly or as a result of collusion. In both cases the vast majority [over 80%] were unarmed civilians.

I was delighted to read in the latest Bank of Ireland report that this country is the second richest in the world.

At a large public meeting last Wednesday 24th July organised by Ballymun People Before Profit, residents brought forward a large number of complaints over Ballymun Regeneration Ltd's actions in the area.

The deceitfulness of the Malaysian multinational (Capitalist) logging corporations that are destroying our Forest Reserves with all its biodiversity of wildlife, and traditional Indigenous land and forest rights, are beyond belief.

In issue 127 of Village, it was reported that Sir Anthony O'Reilly has threatened legal action against its editor.