Diaries of Ireland Illustrated By turns hilarious and dark

By turns hilarious and dark

part miscellany

and John MacBride were carried on with so much drama that every reader will be grateful for the vast documentation that Adrian Frazier’s research has unearthed

as well as Pope’ O’Mahony

who works as a maid in Leinster House

Diaries of Ireland Illustrated By turns hilarious and darkHere is Irelands past distilled poignant personal narratives and privileged moments, human behaviour recorded in its infinite variety, voices overheard: chamber music. In these pages Elizabethan adventurers, fops, soldiers, widows, landlords, republicans, poets, hedge school masters and literary lesbians seem to dance through 400 years of Irish history. National events the siege of Limerick, the battle of the Boyne, Wexford in 1798, the Famine,