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,” ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Irish novelist John Banville is nothing if not versatile (and fertile — he’s the author of 17 books of fiction under his own name). Early in his career, he ...

Midwife, abortionist and convicted murderer Mamie Cadden avoided the death penalty in 1950s Dublin. Mamie Cadden is a controversial figure who provided abortions for women in Dublin between the 1920s ...

Museum illustrates journey of the men who helped shape iconic part of the capital Dublin docklands in the 1950s Dublin docklands in the 1950s Former dock workers Paddy Nevins and John 'Miley' Walsh ...

A new children’s book by author Sarah Webb, who works in the Halfway up the Stairs bookshop, in Greystones, County Wicklow, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a Literary Landscape special for Open Book, Irish author John Banville, aka crime writer Benjamin Black, takes Mariella Frostrup on a tour of the foggy streets, smoke-filled bars and genteel hotel ...