Shouldice recounts the life and times of his grandfather, also Frank, whose life story only began to take definition when the author discovered his soft-spoken grandfather named as a heroic sniper in
Operation Harvest, the codename for the IRA's border campaign of the 1950s, was an ambitious plan to wage a guerrilla war in the North. The IRA used tactics adopted by flying columns that had been suc
Accidental Leadership charts the extraordinary career of Paul Mooney, who progressed through a range of jobs from messenger to apprentice butcher, eventually becoming President of the National Colleg
Baggotonia refers to the area of Dublin centered on Baggot and Leeson Street, and bounded by the Grand Canal, that has been home to many of Ireland's greatest 19th- and 20th-century writers and artist
From 1949 to 1989, Parsons Bookshop was a Dublin literary landmark and meeting place. Situated on Baggot Street's Grand Canal Bridge, the bookshop defined the Bohemian quarter of writers and artists k
