Diaries of Ireland Illustrated a sharp observer and accomplished

a sharp observer and accomplished essayist who published a fine memoir of her own childhood in 1942 (Happy world)

who works as a maid in Leinster House

Beneath the surface are pockets of support for Germany

as well as Pope’ O’Mahony

By turns hilarious and dark

Diaries of Ireland Illustrated a sharp observer and accomplishedHere 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,