Theatre Eye

The Big House Lennox Robinson Abbey Theatre, Dublin by Eamon O’Flaherty The Abbey’s decision to revive The Big House more than 50 years after its last run was amply vindicated […]

TV eye : The men of Arlington

‘They never drank water but whiskey by pints And the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights . . .’It is perhaps unsurprising that the opening minutes of […]

Celluloid Menace, art or the essential habit of the age?

‘Depression or no depression, the cinema grows more popular everyday in Ireland—already there are more than 30 cinemas in Dublin with more to come. In face of these facts, it […]

Nicknames: a directory of occupations, geographies, prejudices and habits

Like most places in Ireland, Athy, Co. Kildare, boasts hundreds of nicknames, some unique to the individual, some family nicknames, others specific to a townland or street. When renowned photographer […]

The Big House in the North of Ireland: land, power and social elites, 1878–1960

The Big House in the North of Ireland: land, power and social elites, 1878–1960 Olwen Purdue (University College Dublin Press, Ä60hb/Ä28pb) ISBN 9781906359218 hb, 9781906359256 pb     Singing of […]