Thomas More

The Duke of Wellington’s drunken Dublin years

Long before he introduced Napoleon to his Waterloo (200 years ago on June 18th), the idle young duke-to-be could be found carousing the hot spots of his native Dublin. Let’s take the tour

‘Wolf Hall’ Thomas More depiction far from saintly

Bishops object to TV drama’s take on More as a fanatical Protestant burner of heretics

Bad lands: Fahrenheit 451 and other fiery dystopias

Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions

‘I am a Traveller who does not travel’

My Education week: Martin Warde, mature student at NUI Galway

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