PollyhesterIn a disused railway tunnel lives Pollyhester, dressmaker to the stars. Celebrities dream of Pollyhesters designs, teased out of ancient recycled fabrics and her wonderous imagination. But when Fashion Dictators change the fashion, celebrity Iverna makes extraordinary demands on poor Pollyhester. She summons her loyal helpers, who include a fallen dancing angel, a lovesick Viking motorcycle courier and a host of sinister spiders, to save the day.

on the edge of Dublin city centre

and hopes for a future after the war

and spends a week in his household at Oughterard

and trophy wives in trophy cars

\n Dr Yvonne Whelan (Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages

Its reappearance has been well worth waiting for

and undergraduates associated with Trinity College

He documents these bloody engagements through the lives of those involved

ancient Greece

the Jewish couple who introduce her to the delights of carrot cake and Chopin

These stories of travel

’ “Brimstone Butterfly