ROB GOODBODY Royal Irish Academy in association with Dublin City Council €30 ISBN 9781908996343 Reviewed by Arnold Horner Now in its fourth decade and operating under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, the Irish Historic Towns Atlas has produced a steady, impressive and quite distinctive flow of publications focusing on historical aspects of the … Read more
Robert Savage, Seán Lemass (UCD Press, €17 pb, 128pp, ISBN 9781906359874). The Lensman, The 1980s: Ireland in pictures (O’Brien Press, €14.99 pb, 176pp, ISBN 9781847173218). Orla and Terry Kelly with Michael Lenihan, Cork in the 1960s (Mercier Press, €29.99 hb, 240pp, ISBN 9781781172490). Paul Duffy, Galway City: snapshots through time (Currach Press, €19.99 pb, 128pp, … Read more
An Post’s museum is located in the historic General Post Office on O’Connell Street, which itself is due to be the centre of much attention next year, the centenary of the 1916 Rising. The chosen themes of the museum reflect its role as the headquarters of the postal service in Ireland and also as the … Read more
Charles J. Haughey did not come cheap. Neither did this much-hyped three-part mini-series on the life, or excerpts thereof, of the notorious former taoiseach, which apparently cost €4 million to produce. Yet the expensive production costs of Charlie seem to have been lost as it made its way to the small screen. So too, alas, … Read more