Diaries of Ireland Illustrated By turns hilarious and dark

By turns hilarious and dark

Kevin Boyle was one of the world’s great human rights lawyers

adding comments in his wry

need and greed

as well as Pope’ O’Mahony

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,