‘Our brilliant…and difficult Bishop’, as novelist Kate O'Brien described him. O'Dwyer was brilliant intellectually, independent-minded and quarrel-some, but a life-long supporter of the poor of Limerick. He played a major…

Walsh was the most publicly visible ecclesiastic in the Irish Church in the late 19th and early 20th century. In many books and frequent letters to the editor, he wrote…

In this study in English of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio , the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates social change from the pre-World War…