David Constantine on the book he considers not just his, but the citizen’s book of a lifetime – just as much now as when it ...

Just a few years before the publication of Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” (1764), the first proper horror novel, the philosopher Edmund Burke laid down the withering rule that ...

Burke argued for the “honourable connection” of principled partisan politics as a substitute for governance by personal dispensation of patronage and favoritism by the crown. I can’t leave ...

A new edition of the Annals of the Four Masters has been published by Edmund Burke of Blackrock, County Dublin. It was launched this afternoon by An Taoiseach, Charles Haughey. Report shows cover ...