Moss Reid's Places

Believe it or not, an upmarket new Italian grocer in Stoneybatter called Mooz was once a location for a very famous film from 1983.

This new video is a fitting tribute to the end of an era at Dalymount Park in Phibsborough, down the road from Stoneybatter on Dublin...

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

The US embassy in Dublin is due to crop up in book #4 of the Moss Reid series (no spoilers)...

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

Time for a very long ramble about the ground behind my feet. Picture the scene. It's mid-May 2011, the week before the Queen of Eng...

The Phoenix Park Tunnel is probably a complete mystery to most Dubliners, though that may change soon.

Here's an old photo of a herd of cattle  on the North Circular Road in Dublin. Yeah, we really did have regular cattle drives up and dow...

If someone in Ireland is described as "a gas man", "a gas character" or "great gas altogether", the gas person...

Just two words: "Kurt's dead." Kurt. Is. Dead. And to think Nirvana were supposed to be in town that evening, supposed t...

Sometimes height is everything. Everything in terms of perspective, status, aerial superiority, power.

Irish novelist William Trevor once talked in an award acceptance speech about his childhood memories of reading detective stories: "...

Farmleigh gets a starring role in Chapter 23 of my first 'Moss Reid' mystery,  Another Case in Cowtown. Here's how the chapter...

Stoneybatter is the centre of Moss Reid's universe in my series of crime novels about the foodie PI. But where exactly is Stoneybatte...

The first book in the 'Moss Reid' series, Another Case in Cowtown,  is pretty much a “Stoneybatter novel”. I've compiled a map ...