Over The Backyard WallFrom this mosaic of memory a self portrait emerges that takes Thomas Kilroy, a child of Hitlers war, from his upbringing in Callan to the threshold of his career as one of Irelands most distinguished living playwrights. The frontier town of Callan was a crucible of Irelands War of Independence. Kilroys pro Treaty father was a police sergeant who found solace in greyhounds and gambling and his mother was anti Treaty . They were emblems of divided

art and black and white photography

a country boy pulsing with sexual aggression

What criteria might a Secretary of State draw on to make their judgment call

In the past fifteen years

He was Pearse’s aide-de-camp in the General Post Office during Easter Week and became commander of the garrison after Connolly was wounded

she was brought to live in Ireland at the age of fourteen and spent most of the rest of her life at the family home at Edgeworthstown

Despite on-going opposition to the higher education of women

escaping to the hills on his home-made bicycle and raising racing pigeons in a make-shift loft

psychological acuity and a fearless eye for the erotic and the grotesque

A Lost Tribe is a novel that charts the role of the priest in Ireland

Out of the Ordinary captures Dillon/Jivaka’s various journeys – to Oxford

his essays