Bookworm

Emer Purcell, Paul MacCotter, Julianne Nyhan and John Sheehan (eds), Clerics, kings and Vikings: essays on medieval Ireland in honour of Donnchadh Ó Corráin (Four Courts Press, €60 hb, 584pp, ISBN 97871846824951). Howard B. Clarke and Ruth Johnson (eds), The Vikings in Ireland and beyond: before and after the Battle of Clontarf (Four Courts Press, … Read more

Irish Whiskey Museum

The Irish Whiskey Museum is Dublin’s latest, and it has a prime site opposite the front gate of Trinity College. The entrance is located between two shops and may be easy to miss, which may account for the fact that there were only four other people on the tour that I took, although the 3pm … Read more