Penulis: Padraic O Farrell

The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918), Brinsley Mac Namara’s first published novel, so enraged the Westmeath community in which he lived that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated …

Seventeen ninety-eight saw French and American revolutionary ideals converge with popular rebellion in Ireland. The rebellion ended in bloody failure, but 1798 was kept alive in folk memory by a …