Dublin, being the capital of Ireland, has the trappings of power, big business, government and national culture.Cork has the tallest building in Ireland, the longest building in Ireland, the best hur
In the early morning of Saturday 31 May 1941 German planes dropped bombs on central Dublin. In Bombs over Dublin, the first book on the subject, Sean McMahon looks at the background to the bombing.
Into a very volatile Ireland, Terry de Valera was born in June 1922. In this memoir he recounts events in his life and that of his family against the ongoing changing political landscape of the Civil
There Might be a Drop of Rain Yet is the story of the conflict between a young man growing up in Ireland in the 1950s and his very orthodox Catholic and patriotic mother. He eventually escapes her an
In 1970, Nuala Fennell was a wife and mother of three small children living in suburban south Dublin. Already independent-minded and ready to challenge the status quo, she became involved in campaign
O'Keeffe, an investigative journalist who ran for the Labour Party in the European election in 2009 for the seat in Dublin, presents a diary of the election campaign from March 2009 to just after poll
