“Mindfulness, to me, implies stasis. It’s like dawdling in the slow lane while life races by. “ So writes Norah Casey in her book ‘Spark’. She goes on “instead I...

Barbara Scully talks to Tara Flynn about her first book, You’re Grand, The Irishwomen’s Secret Guide To Life. “According to the rhyme, little girls are made from sugar and spice...

Short of stepping into a time machine, how do writers think themselves into the mind of characters who lived hundreds of years ago? In my novel The House Where It...

“Do you start every day with a ‘to do’ list? Every year with new resolutions? Do you fantasise about winning the lottery, travelling the world or retiring at forty? Many...

Inkfash is a new online resource aimed at readers and writers – a Goodreads with virtual shelves where authors, book bloggers, publishers and readers can set up virtual rooms, mini...

I’m an historian and I write to lay ghosts. ‘You needed to come here’ an elderly Hausfrau observed to me several years ago in a Rhineland village where I stayed...

Professor Terence Dooley specialises in Irish social and political history of the ninetenth and twentieth centuries, particularly the land question, the fortunes of great houses and estates, the works of...

The desire to contribute to the remembrance of forgotten Irishmen sprang from a passionate interest in the stories of those who fought and died in the First World War, frequently...

Writing a book was never a dream of mine. Writing a book was something that other people did; clever people, creative people. I never considered myself to be one of...

The more you research history, the more you realise you don’t know. This is especially the case with what historians call a ‘general history’; that is one which aims to...