LAST week, I was on my way to Dublin airport on the happy errand of collecting our youngest and her husband, who were visiting for an extended weekend. With the most recent changes to the traffic system at Newlands Cross,...
IF YOU have been following this column over the last few weeks, you will know that a stroll down Lansdowne Road has yielded a deal of information on the comings and goings of the family of Charles Loftus Townshend and...
LAST week, while exploring Laois connections to early 20th-century Dublin, I indulged in a bit of family nostalgia as I...
IT’S been a while since I found myself in the environs of the capital with time on my hands. But...
LAST week, I happened to come across a report concerning the latest revision of Irish statute law. Ordinarily, such a...
SOME weeks back, I was getting excited about the pre-publication subscriber list to William Wilson’s Post Chaise Companion. His traveller’s...
SOME weeks ago when I visited Kevin Higgins in Abbeyleix, he asked if I would be interested in giving a...
LAST week, I got into a bit of reverie about motoring and all that it entailed in times past and,...
LAST week, I happened on a comment which our eldest had posted on social media. She had scored 100% on...
BEFORE I finally release you from my most recent obsession with William Wilson’s Post-Chaise Companion, specifically, his list of subscribers,...
I ALWAYS have a sense of excitement when I am about to examine an old publication for the first time....
LAST week, in the course of my ramblings as I negotiated the Great Heath 10k, I made reference to the...
THERE comes a time in January when you just know it is no longer appropriate to continue to wish people...
EXACTLY one hundred years ago today, on 20 January 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew, on board the Endurance, were waking...
By now, little Christmas has passed, and superstition suggests that, if you have any vestige of Christmas decoration remaining, things...
Happy New Year one and all, and welcome to our first outing of 2015. No matter how hard you try,...
IF there’s one sure sign of Christmas, it’s a book launch. I have been at two within the last ten...
REGULAR readers will know that, from time to time, I take them along with me on a cycling odyssey. You...
LAST week I was recalling a recent trip to London, during which I spent some time pounding the streets around...
