Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
“Like a volcano, overtourism has been threatening to erupt for a very long time” and about three years ago it did, this new collection of academic essays on the subject says.
Those working in Dublin’s north inner-city reflect on its “golden age” of community development – and draw varied lessons that resonate today.
More than a factual account of the early years of Dublin’s police, this book is a tour of the foggy streets and dangerous laneways of Ireland’s capital.
This novel is “an inventive and wickedly funny take on surviving the teenage years”. “It is a hard-hitting read … well worth your time”, writes our reviewer.
This novel about an Irishman living in Berlin is “inventive and explorative”, writes our reviewer. “At its heart, the story deals with immigration and alienation.”
“Fans of contemporary weird fiction and new Gothic will find it a worthwhile read, if a rare and expensive one,” writes Dave Lordan.
By “Dublin’s leading brothel keeper at the end of the 1700s”, this “is a hugely recommended book which will expand anyone’s sense of the Irish past and of our literary heritage”.
Sorcha Kelly’s work was inspired by a couple of Dubliners arguing outside her window about their ma.
Udham Singh waited two decades to exact revenge on Tipperary’s Michael O’Dwyer. A new book tracks what happened in those years.
Liam O’Meara walks to a curved spot in the stone wall nearby. This is his favourite find from his research. A bench used to be here for mourners, called the seat of melancholia.
“There are only two alternatives in stamping out an evil: law or terrorism, and we had to fall back on terrorism,” recalled Fr R.S. Devane.
The charm of Tribal Gods lies in its simplicity: it is a story about two women who remain in each other’s lives through thick and thin.