Subject: Dublin (Ireland) -- History (Keywords)

A moving and gripping story of love, denial, and a daughter's quest for the truth. Caitríona Palmer had a happy childhood in Dublin, raised by loving adoptive parents. But when she was in her late twenties, she realised that she had a strong need to know the woman who had given birth to her. She...

A moving and gripping story of love, denial, and a daughter's quest for the truth. Caitríona Palmer had a happy childhood in Dublin, raised by loving adoptive parents. But when she was in her late twenties, she realised that she had a strong need to know the woman who had given birth to her. She...

Ireland's best known Irishman, his name and signature in every household in Ireland, is also the least known. Part of Dublin life for over 20 years, both family and brewery have passed into legend, but their origins are obscured. This book explores these origins and the story of the man and his b...

Nell Flynn is training to be a nurse and planning to marry her boyfriend when her mother dies, leaving her younger sisters destitute. To save them from the workhouse, Nell returns to the family home, finding work at a biscuit factory. But then eight-year-old Roisin, is admitted to hospital with r...

Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the insid...

Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the insid...

Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the insid...

The author joins a number of other scholars, travellers, distinguished men of letters, and historians in writing about the fair city and the people associated with it. This updated version of the 1979 original has new chapters and photographs.