Local history: Four revealing and entertaining reads provide a window on the past
A Belgian artist’s grá for Achill Island; ideas and the country house; the Celtic revival; an Anglo-Irish aristocrat’s memoirs
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Designed for Life: Architecture and Design in Cork City 1900-90 by Tom Spalding
This is typical of the author’s tone of mild speculation that he dares to wonder if the fires set by British troops in 1920 were good for the city
Telling the Truth Is Dangerous: A history of Robert Dudley Edwards
Edwards spent more than 50 years ‘planning and fighting’ for establishment of the national archives
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