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

Yes, I admit it, I did once apply to be a Lord. There was a short-lived scheme to appoint a few so-called 'People's Peers'.

Childhood lasts a lifetime.” This much-quoted statement from Floella Benjamin was in the news again this week as the children ...

Enid Blyton, once the bane of British teachers and parents, must be the most unlikely champion of wokeness in all children's ...

James Middleton is serving up a festive feast of nostalgia and parenting revelations! In his latest column for The Sunday ...

The Lost Dogs, for ages 6+, is the latest novel from Galway author and Children’s Laureate Patricia Forde and it follows the ...

There are many ways of reading Jock Serong’s Cherrywood (Fourth Estate), and it helps to know Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree and the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. Regardless, Serong has ...

Strikes are a regular occurrence in Europe, as employees withhold their labour to fight for better pay and conditions. Walkouts are sometimes planned months ahead but others are announced last ...

Famous Five readers will know that Billycock Hill is featured in the title of the sixteenth of Enid Blyton's stories, "Five Go to Billycock Hill", so it's possible the plot will have similarities to ...

In Mystery at the Prospect Hotel, it’s summer 1940 and The Famous Five are reunited at a grand hotel on Cragstone Ridge. An ...