I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

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The Grafton Wonderland

Further explorations of the map of literary Dublin

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The Irish Jew

A Jewish lord mayor hero of the stage in 1920s Dublin

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Liberalism goes neo

Sounding the alarm bell on the progress of unbridled capitalism

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The Poet Says No

Yeats fails to support a fellow Nobel laureate jailed by the Nazis

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From Page to Stage

A fictional post-punk band from the 80s has become very real indeed

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The Dark Side – 50 Years On

A shot at fame: Your chance to try, over in the twinkling of an eye.