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

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Radical Dissenter

Radical Dissenter

Thomas Earls FitzGerald

William Drennan, radical Protestant and backer of Catholic Emancipation

A Voracious Reader

A Voracious Reader

Seamus Martin

Peering into Stalin’s soul from the scribbles in the margins of his books

What Spies Do

What Spies Do

David Blake Knox

Sean Bourke and the springing from jail of Russian agent George Blake

A Revolutionary’s Life

A Revolutionary’s Life

Gerald Dawe

An affectionate portrait of Ernie O’Malley in war and in exile

On the Brink

On the Brink

Martin Mansergh

Breaking away from the empire: the dilemma of the 1921 Treaty negotiators

A Man of Many Parts

A Man of Many Parts

Jim Smyth

A brilliant historian and teacher who kept faith with the republic

The Man From Nowhere

The Man From Nowhere

Enda O’Doherty

Rallying the great and the good to build the European project from above

Eastward Ho!

Eastward Ho!

David Dickson

Dublin’s expansion on the basis of the reclamation of land from the bay

Going Georgian

Going Georgian

Patrick Duffy

Urban transformation and sectarian division in 18th century Ireland

University Pioneer

University Pioneer

Judith Harford

An Irish historian who encountered misogyny in her academic career

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