The logic of a sprawling Oscar Wilde on Merrion Square demands two further statues: one of his mother, the poet Jane Elgee ‘Speranza’ Wilde and, no less, of her uncle Charles Maturin father of Gothic literature in Ireland
Liam Lynch, a republican martyr-ic0n, is the subject of a timely new biography in this, the hundredth anniversary of the ending of Ireland’s civil war. Lynch’s first biography by Florrie O’Donoghue is lyrical and incisive, being the work of a friend and comrade. Gerard Shannon, with wider access to archival material, has revealed the complexity […]
Dermot McLaughlin mismanaged Temple Bar and, facilitated by the uncontrolled Arts Council which never took responsibility for failures in Temple Bar, is now arrogantly calling out mismanagement in Listowel