Ulysses comes home

Ulysses the book is coming home. For the first time this century, weare to have a Dublin edition of Joyce’s greatest work, edited by DanisRose and published by Lilliput Press. […]

Trouble in the force

While the recent public demonstration of members of the Garda Siochána is unprecedented it is not the first time there has been unrest amongst an Irish police force on questions […]

Warrior of Wood Quay

DK: Tell us about your background and early interest in history. FXM: I was born in Ballylongford in north Kerry. It was the height of the Civil War and my […]

‘Galleons of the Streets’: Irish Trams

There was a time when Dublin United Tramways could boast of being one of the finest services in Europe and the seventh largest system, with 330 tram cars. They were […]

‘The Ireland that I would have’ De Valera & the creation of an Irish national image

De Valera’s Ireland has been held up to criticism and even ridicule, depicted as an unrealistic over-romanticised vision of comely maidens and dancing at the cross roads. Yet de Valera […]