The ruins of Dunamase Castle tower over County Laois in Ireland. It's been centuries since anyone lived here, but an American tour group has come to imagine what life might have been like when their ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three tourists in Dublin city centre, Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin 1, Ireland. From the earliest African arrivals on Irish shores, ...
The Irish History Boys podcast: Delving into the ‘lost memoirs’ of Seán Lemass ...
“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history,” Novalis said. It was subtle of Penelope Fitzgerald to use this as the epigraph for her historical novel about the poet, “The Blue Flower,” implying, ...
Ironically, there are few places in Dublin more alive than Glasnevin Cemetery. Domhnall O’Donoghue delves into the history of Ireland's largest burial place. Spanning 124 acres - and just a short bus ...
“Ouch!” You’ll say that more than once when reading Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves. American readers familiar with O’Toole from his reviews in The New York Review of Books or his work as a ...
The author did so much research that “it was kind of overwhelming.” ...
Early in the pages of We Don’t Know Ourselves, Fintan O’Toole’s masterful “personal history” of modern Ireland, I came upon a moment in O’Toole’s life that intersected unexpectedly with my own. The ...