Reading time: 6 – 9 minutes Niamh Cullen, a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of History and Archives, UCD where she specialises in the social and cultural history of modern Italy, contributes this piece which I first read on the online arts and culture magazine The Little Review where Niamh is the editor....
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Reading time: 6 – 9 minutes This week Amazon announced that, for the first time ever on Amazon.com, ebooks had outsold hardbacks, proving that whilst some of us are reluctant to part with our beloved bound volumes, there is an ever increasing number embracing the concept of electronic reading. And with Apple‘s much heralded...
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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes The book remainder business is booming and bargain bookshops are popping up all over Dublin city centre. You can’t have missed them and that’s probably the point. Any word preceded by BARGAIN printed in large, high-visibility letters is sure to attract customers in large numbers, even just for...
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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes As one of Ireland’s foremost economists, it is no surprise David McWilliams is conjuring up ways of tackling the recession. What may be surprising, however, is his current method of choice. McWilliams is a resident of Dalkey, the sleepy village in south county Dublin, which may be best...
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