Conor Lenihan reviews Richard O’Rawe’s astonishing ‘Stakeknife’s Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA’s Nutting Squad and the British Spooks who Ran the War’
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