It’s not just in Irish politics that the old civil war divide is over. The ceasefire also now seems to extend to Brussels pubs. De Valera’s, long a landmark on that city’s Place Flagey, closed earlier this year. Although there are plans to reopen under ne... See more
Mention of a long-lost, late-night Dublin restaurant, The Last Post, in our Letters page recently has evoked the light of other days for one reader, Eoin O’Kelly. No, I don’t mean mere nostalgia. In this case, the evocation involves an actual light, or mo... See more
When I mentioned the other day that boarding fees at England’s Winchester College are “£20,000” (nearly €23,000), I should probably, as reader Angela Murray points out, have added “per term”. If you send your offspring there for a full year, it will cost ... See more
One of the social networks of Irish nationalism, circa 1904, revolved around a shop called An Stad, located at No.1b North Frederick Street, Dublin, opposite what is now the northeast corner of Parnell Square. It even had its own social media, in the form... See more
I was pleased to read in the London Times recently about a hitherto obscure businessman named Paddy Dear, said to be worth “more than £100 million”, who was in the news for giving money away. “Paddy Dear, discreetly dressed and softly spoken, does not bra... See more
