I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

Louis MacNeice

Home History

History

Ulster Will Fight

Ulster Will Fight

Brian M Walker

Inter-communal violence in the early years of Northern Ireland

Reds under the Bed

Reds under the Bed

John Mulqueen

How the secret police bedded in communism in postwar Central Europe

Spanish Sketches

Spanish Sketches

Martin Tyrrell

Orwell and the Spanish anarchists: not judging murder too severely

They Heard the Call

They Heard the Call

John Horgan

A history of Ireland’s main Catholic seminary has a much wider focus than the merely institutional

Voices from the Chorus

Voices from the Chorus

George O’Brien

Given the historical amnesia that prevails, Katrina Goldstone’s account of the activity of Irish left-wing writers in the Thirties is something of a revelation.

Webs and Networks

Webs and Networks

Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin

In popular imagination, the Arts and Crafts movement is indelibly linked to well-known figures like William Morris, John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones.

No Myth No Nation

No Myth No Nation

Maurice Earls

A state will be at a loss if it doesn’t know where it came from.

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