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

With the remake of The Magnificent Seven hitting our screens, Stephen Porzio looks at the legacy of Sergio Corbucci, the legendary western director.

Henry Morton Stanley rose from humble origins to become one of the most famous Victorian explorers of Africa. Yet in his wake he left a bloody legacy.

Bart Van Goethem has published an entire book of micro-fiction. Here are 20 examples of his work.

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Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright and Marie Curie scholar, works in the digital humanities and is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and ...

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

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Catherine Monvoisin was allegedly a poisoner who practiced human sacrifice. Her fall shoke the court of Louis XIV to its foundations.

Strong-willed and determined, Christina of Sweden was always trouble, But in an age of hereditary monarchs, her sexuality was the biggest problem of all.

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?