Pádraig Lenihan’s outstanding new book includes events and figures seared into Ireland’s collective historical and cultural ...

This book is, for want of better phrasing, a bit too well-written. There’s virtually nothing to be thought or said about it ...

Like Myra in her story A Memory, Mary Lavin lived in a mews house behind Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin. She also had a house on a bend of the river Boyne in Co Meath, north of Dublin, a place inhabited ...

Landlords and Middlemen in Eighteenth-century Duhallow by John O’Regan discusses the so-called Rockite rebellion (1820-24). This was a large-scale insurrection of up to 2,000 rebels threatening the ...

The hands of the clock go patiently over the story again from the top. Consider all the years you’ve spent in waiting rooms like this with clocks for company, in libraries and h ...