DUBLIN CASTLE: FROM FORTRESS TO PALACE.

VOL. 1. VIKINGS TO VICTORIANS: A HISTORY OF DUBLIN CASTLE TO 1850  SEÁN DUFFY, JOHN MONTAGUE, KEVIN MULLIGAN and MICHAEL O’NEILL National Monuments Service €50 ISBN 9781446880715 Reviewed by John […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls It’s a familiar story, almost a cliché: in the 1880s a young woman from a large family leaves the struggling farm in Sligo to emigrate to […]

CLERY’S: THE ARCHIVES

By Donal Fallon This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the unveiling of Ian Ritchie’s Spire in O’Connell Street, a modern addition to the main thoroughfare which Ritchie said was […]

AR LORG NA FÍRINNE—GAME OF TRUTH

TG4, 14 December 2022 By Sylvie Kleinman ‘Even before we buried our loved ones, the [British] State had buried the truth.’ For families of victims of bombings and murders during […]

THE WONDER

Directed by Sebastián Lelio By Maud Ellmann Sebastián Lelio’s movie The Wonder (2022), based on Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel of that name, stars Florence Pugh as English nurse Lib Wright, […]