Tag: Four Courts Press
Wexford Festival Opera—little streets, big heart
Karina Daly talks about how and why she came to write a history of Wexford Festival Opera.
The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street’s First Residents
The Best Address: Henrietta Street Dublin and Its First Residents, 1720-80.
Melanie...
First Encounters with the 17th Cent. Boyle Women.
Ann-Maria Walsh reflects on how she first discovered the fascinating story of the Boyle Family.
Pictured is Dr....
Standish O’Grady: An Irish Life in Writing
Published June 2019; Four Courts Press; HB; €55; 978-1-846827853
J.G. Farrell’s Empire novels: The Decline and Fall of the Human...
I first discovered J.G. Farrell through another favourite author of mine, Alison Lurie. In Lurie’s novel Foreign...
Socialising in Medieval Dublin
What life was like in Dublin, 1450 – 1540....
The walled city of late medieval
Dublin, unlike today's 'commuter...
Defending Trinity College Dublin: Anzacs and the 1916 Rising
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916: Anzacs and the Rising, Four Courts Press, 978-1-84682-784-6, €19.95