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.
Donate
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
Urban transformation and sectarian division in 18th century Ireland
An Irish historian who encountered misogyny in her academic career
Germany’s rapid bounceback from the destruction of 1945’s ‘Zero Hour’
Historians’ role in excusing the brutalities of empire-building
Inter-communal violence in the early years of Northern Ireland
How the secret police bedded in communism in postwar Central Europe
Orwell and the Spanish anarchists: not judging murder too severely