A Close Shave with the DevilThe devil was going around again and everyone knew because it was in the papers. An usherette in the Metropole saw him at An Apartment for Peggie, eating oranges in a brown trilby; two women in Clerys Bargain Basement came upon him fingering cups in a highly suspicious manner; and The Evening Mail said pretty drapers assistant, Lily Shine, nineteen, from Cabra West, was dancing with a fellow in a brown suit when she felt something funny, looked down,

This book brings together a series of essays which unfold and illuminate the history of the Irish flour milling industry from the medieval period to the present day

His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly awesome … He has one of the most judicious minds in the business

who captured a newly independent Ireland in all its changing hues

It makes for bracing

reading the Bible to the local people and sharing their hospitality

Tt stands as a vivid

they treat with equal conviction savannah villages and civil-service offices

Dublin slum children

at medical journalism

The bricolage of melded history and a fragmented modernism of Old Swords renders truth-to-experience like no other contemporary voice

Marjorie Quarton has edited these recipes

Gallipoli was as important a First World War battle for Ireland as the Somme was for Ulster