The Irish Aesthete: Buildings of Ireland, Lost and FoundInspired by his passionate interest in Irelands architectural heritage and its preservation, in 2012 writer Robert OByrne established The Irish Aesthete, a blog and social media phenomenon dedicated to sharing and showcasing the treasures of Irelands built environment. Ever since, architects, designers, decorators, historians and indeed those who are simply interested in the unique history of our Islands architecture have flocked from around the world

a remarkable debut from an immensely talented writer

Shaw and O’Casey – he knew many of them – and also of his contemporaries F

moving and deeply revealing

Faithful departed’

from Cairo and Compostela to Carraroe

a play about the inner workings of the ESB that created a storm of controversy in 1961

Murphy auspiciously reinvented in The Battle of Aughrim (1968) an historical frieze of war and conflict in the late 17th century spliced through with images drawn

The part she played in Breedie Flynn’s death

Despite a modest start in life

and other small-minded invertebrae

written during his last moments and pierced by the fatal bullet

Almost eighty years on from the original publication