2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Royal Hibernian Academy, an institution which has moved across the Liffey owing to the flames of Easter Week, and which has championed the visual arts through an ever-changing Ireland. Cristín Leach is the author of a new creative study of the body, which weaves history and art to tell the story.
Dónal Lunny: From Emmet Spiceland to Kate Bush
Jim Fitzpatrick: On Che, Phil Lynott and Sinéad O'Connor
From Jim Larkin to Alfred Hitchcock: The Life of O'Casey
Peig McManus: A Dublin Childhood and a Life Less Ordinary
"My body to Ireland, my heart to Rome...." (with Claire Halpin)
The Foggy Dew: From Father O'Neill to Sinéad O'Connor
From Lugs Branigan to Led Zeppelin
Motorcades and Martyr Graves
Roddy Doyle Interview: Taxi to Barrytown!
1954: The Birth of Bloomsday
Tatters Cullen and the Vanishing Suffragettes
From Skin-the-Goat to Buckshot Forster: The Phoenix Park Assassinations
Old Songs and New Revivals (with Macdara Yeates)
Ragged Trousers and Paint Brushes (with Jimmy Murphy)
From the Ormond Market to the Hacienda
Noël Browne and the Archbishop (with Robert Ballagh)
A Sort of Homecoming
The Beginnings of Dublin Theatre (with Arran Henderson)
Dublin: A Writer's City (with Chris Morash)
The Bogside and Fu Manchu: Dublin as Somewhere Else
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