An office in Harcourt Street—the first Irish Department of Finance

A ‘grey, eighteenth-century house’ that witnessed the turbulent birth of a new Irish administration and later became a refuge for ‘fallen women’. By Frank Cogan A truly dramatic scene in Neil Jordan’s film Michael Collins is when the eponymous hero is forced to emerge through a skylight and take a perilous route across the rooftops ... Read more

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