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.
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The life and death of a martyr for revolutionary secular republicanism
Diaries and memoirs of French Protestant refugees in Ireland
William Drennan, radical Protestant and backer of Catholic Emancipation
Peering into Stalin’s soul from the scribbles in the margins of his books
Sean Bourke and the springing from jail of Russian agent George Blake
An affectionate portrait of Ernie O’Malley in war and in exile
Breaking away from the empire: the dilemma of the 1921 Treaty negotiators
A brilliant historian and teacher who kept faith with the republic
Rallying the great and the good to build the European project from above
Dublin’s expansion on the basis of the reclamation of land from the bay
