The Vancouver marathon is described as one of the most scenic marathons in the World. I reckoned that if I was going to slog through 26 miles and 385 yards...

Every day when my dad came home from work, and I would come home from school, he would eat dinner in silence from a tray by the fire, and read...

Why were the republican women of 1916 whitewashed out of the subsequent history of the new Ireland? And, more particularly, why was Elizabeth O Farrell? The answer lies in the...

When I was studying the history of the 1916 rising more than 40 years ago, the only woman’s name I heard of was Countess Markievicz. She fought at the College...

The party was at our house as it so often was. The Parents weren’t fussy; we could drink, we could smoke. The usual crowd, all hanging out; bottles of Smithwicks...

In 2015 somebody came up with the bright idea that maybe rescue of the Abbey Theatre could come from outside the state. But it was also recognised that the task...

Glorious is the ambition of an idea in its germination, death is its fate upon contamination. The great playwright George Bernard Shaw once wrote : that if more people went...

I didn’t realise that there was something wrong with me until I went to school. It was the summer of 1955. I was not yet five years old and my...

Old  bookshops are places one goes to replenish the soul. It’s the smell of them old books that returns me to a time when they were more appreciated than they...

I had a feeling I could be right about this, and to prove it, I went out that rainy evening, at dusk, crossed the bridge, and went to look for...