DUBLIN, EIRE[sic] (Yank, 12 October 1945)

Eire—It was a beautiful day in Dublin. Floating down the Liffey, neat little barges with red-topped funnels, loaded with brown barrels of Guinness stout, symbolised pre-war living and good appetites. […]

Two nations, one order: the Franciscans in medieval Ireland

Niav Gallagher outlines how the Franciscans arrived in Ireland c. 1231 and enjoyed over a century of expansion and consolidation despite racial tensions. According to the thirteenth-century chronicler Thomas Eccleston, […]

Living and writing the twentieth century

BB: Tell us something about your background and about the people who influenced you most in your formative years. TPC: I grew up in impoverished middle-class surroundings in Monkstown, Co. […]

The Limerick pogrom, 1904

Kevin Haddick Flynn outlines the background to and the course of an incident that sharply divided public opinion. This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the only anti-Jewish pogrom to […]

The age of Ulysses

Daniel Mulhall delves into Joyce’s classic novel and finds it teeming with figures from Irish history   History and literature are often intertwined. With the passage of time, all contemporary […]