Champagne & Silver BucklesDublin Castle was the headquarters of British rule in Ireland, both literal and symbolic. There, the Viceroy, chief representative of the Crown in Ireland, presided, a conduit and image of power. Around him gathered a privileged elite who represented the apex of Irish high society for over two hundred years. Their colourful lives, roles and rituals lent shape to what became known as the Viceregal Court. Champagne & Silver Buckles examines the social

‘The Light before the Object: Bill Doyle

Dempsey finds a bizarre link between Bosani and Caravaggio’s masterpiece

With a Foreword by Ed Moloney

enriched with personal and political observation

His literary reputation was established with a magnificent memoir

initiated a tradition sustained by political and economic necessity in subsequent years

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and provoked a distinguished Irish counter-Enlightenment tradition that included Swift

With Setting Foot on the Shore of Connemara he captures the numinous in a net of words and images

In that sense he was untouched by World War II

Why is going for a dacker a quite innocent activity in one place

the place of the poitín industry