Moss Reid's Places

Ireland's latest taoiseach (prime minister) happens to be gay, young (38) and have a dad from India. Cue plenty of international headl...

Grangegorman Military Cemetery is back in the news again. Yesterday morning Canada's Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin Vickers, pounced on...

For most of its life, right through the Victorian age, it was known as "Murdering Lane" or "Murdering-Lane" with a hy...

"Whaddya mean, it's a destination restaurant?" Colley, a regular character in the Moss Reid series of novels, sounds mo...

Music documentarian Myles O'Reilly shot his classy new video of Anna-Mieke Bishop and her band a couple of days ago. It gives a relat...

Arbour Hill's military cemetery is the last resting place of 14 of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. It is currently undergoing ...

Ireland's juryless courts are back in the news this week after two gangland shootings in Dublin, and Sinn Fein has made the abolit...

Dublin has its fair share of bloody street names. Literally.

Arbour Hill's church and cemetery will feature prominently in Dublin's Easter 1916 centenary commemorations. And in Book #4 of th...

Back in 1965, Smithfield Square and other parts of the northside of Dublin were transformed into Berlin, to much excitement and hoopla. ...

So I'm in Berlin, doing research for book #4. I have vowed not to "do" Checkpoint Charlie. Waste of time. Give it a miss...

Before my first research visit to Berlin I did some desk research, as you do. Tripadvisor, Google Streetview, the usual stuff. And YouTube. ...

So there's this billboard at street level on Oranienstraße in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Its posters have slowly built up on e...