Probably by chance, Ireland’s embassy in Rome is located a mere 325 metres from the Church of San Pietro in Montorio, where Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O’Donnell, the Earl of ...

In an afterword to her imaginative and ambitious novel, Jacqueline O’Mahony writes that she was inspired to write it by the tragic story of the Famine Walk by the people of Doolough, Co Mayo in ...