The Palm HouseA monograph of duotone photographs, taken in The Palm House at the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin, beautifully illustrate this building as it was prior to its restoration. The photographs capture the cluttered green jungle, worn by time and held high in affection by the enchanted visitors who stepped inside its lofty paradise. By bringing the reader around the house as it was, drawing the eye to detail upwards, along its unique metal

incisive style

He explores how a family enterprise adapted to the far-reaching transformation of politics and society in Ireland over a period of two centuries

describing the City’s rites and ceremonies

goes to Rome

embellishing the lives of generations of students – chiefly Trinity College undergraduates – fellow historians

funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan

It is accompanied by a signed archival pigment print by Amelia Stein

assembled for the first time from family and institutional archives

whether practised by republicans or forces of the Crown

far from the prying eyes of the press

historian and writer

shredded and pushed beyond our boundaries' - her meditations forming a perfectly poised novella as lyrically tender as it is viscerally sensuous