Pickow’s photographs of Dublin capture a unique essence of the city and its people at a point in time when modernisation and internationalisation was gathering at pace. Yet many traditional aspects of ...

Sadly, Martha Long never speaks the line she uses as the title for her wrenching memoir of childhood in Dublin. She knows that her mother wouldn’t care—she’s “too simple minded to look after herself,” ...

A new exhibition "Ireland in Focus: Photographing Ireland in the 1950s" includes images from Dorothea Lange, and anthropologist, Robert Cresswell, as well as the largest exhibition of photographs by ...

Bestselling memoirist Long (Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House) takes readers to 1950s Dublin, where it is nothing short of a miracle that she survived her childhood. Long chronicles her ...

O'Connell Street, 1952: Dublin in the 1950s is "perfect noir territory" says writer John Banville (who writes crime fiction under the pen name Benjamin Black). The city's dark history is incorporated ...