Restoring Mayberry

For a hundred years a bicycle shop in Dublin has let anyone come into the store, borrow bikes and ride them around for a while, to see if ...

"On Cable Street we lived in a tenement house where there was ten families in the same house and one toilet in the yard. It was s...

"Even now, in the middle of Dublin, there are horses and carriages, and while they do make manure on the road many of the local garde...

When people list history’s most world-changing inventions, they usually include fire, or guns, or computers. Rarely do people mention...

"Scattery was an island mile long by half a mile wide, and now largely abandoned, and in 1930s we 167 people who lived there were a...

"When my mother started off here she used to go to the bacon factory with two of us in a pram (buggy) and used to bring the meat in t...

My piece about the horsemeat scandal has been published at Front Porch Republic, so feel free to check it out if you haven't already. ...

At the end of the island, at the pier where people left their boats to go to the mainland, there was a post upon which hung a hat.   ...

Originally published in the Kildare Nationalist newspaper.  Before every home acquired the sterilised waterfalls of our taps, man...

People hadn’t much money but times were good. You could dress up and carry your handbag up O’Connell Street and not feel frightened...