Bookworm came across a very interesting book recently: Roger Stalley (ed.), Irish Gothic architecture: construction, decay and reinvention (Wordwell, 230pp, £29.99pb, ISBN 9781905569700). The Gothic style arrived in Ireland in […]

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Titanic Belfast Titanic Quarter, Belfast www.titanicbelfast.com by Tony Canavan   Located in an iconic building, Titanic Belfast opened to a fanfare of publicity, promising to be a world-class visitor attraction […]

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In the name of the Republic TV3, 18 & 25 March 2013 Title Films by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc   IRA leader Tom Barry once likened the more unsavoury aspects […]

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A terrible beauty Title Films by John Gibney   The General Post Office on Dublin’s O’Connell Street looms large in the iconography of the Easter Rising. Its position on the […]

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The picturesque village of Talbot’s Inch stands on the west bank of the River Nore in the northern suburbs of Kilkenny City. Contemporary accounts described Talbot’s Inch as a ‘garden […]

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