[Portrait of Richard painted by Barthel ii in the 1520s, after a lost original, for the Paston family. Owned by the Society of Antiquaries, London,...

Recently, during a break in a rainstorm, I carried the garbage out to the curb. When I leaned down to move a bag, I lost my balance and toppled for...

In 1940, the year I was born, John Charles McQuaid was appointed archbishop of Dublin and presided in that role until his death in 1972. As a resul...

Mam performed her usual magic over the open fire that Christmas Day in 1951 when I was 11. At dinnertime the glazed turkey, drumsticks in the air, ...

Part 2 On that September morning in 1951 when Shem Feeney chased Katherine and Margaret Loftus away from his water pump, the children continued up ...

Part 1 In Irish parlance Laragh Lane went nowhere. It was one mile long and only wide enough for the passage of a horse’s cart. Surfaced with stone...