A link with telephones was also suspected

Sid Vicious had been included in the Sex Pistols mainly for his comic-scary appearance

When he tried to resume his old job in Dublin after the war, he was no longer welcome

121 years after Leopold Bloom ‘pushed in the door of the Burton’, public house doesn’t know where it stands

He studied me a second, as if trying to assess if I was a Dublin jackeen out to make a feck of him

Russian-born intelligence agent who called himself Sidney Reilly, and inspired James Bond, made use of several Irish cover identities

We are well used in this country to visitors outdoing us in the performative aspects of Irishness

Written in the outpost of Rearcross, the letter is a bleak portrait of human misery worthy of Samuel Beckett

The Prisoners’ Lens shows theatrical staged scenes which remind us that the events of 1916 were inspired by playwrights and actors as well as poets

Christy Moore’s haunting song immortalised the woman Nancy Spain

Words that were doing a perfectly good job are suddenly deemed to need prefixes

Sands would surely have approved of the rap band’s success in helping make Irish fashionable with the young

I had to marvel briefly at its location, on a hilltop bog halfway between Charlestown and nowhere

Natural monolith covered with carvings suggests Croagh Patrick was an object of pilgrimage long before Christianity

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