Strumpet City is the impossible Irish novel. The great master of the short story, Frank O'Connor, writing in 1942, claimed that it was simply not possible to write a social novel in Ireland. In Russia ...

Welcome to the very special St Patrick’s Day edition of the IrishCentral book club! This month, we decided to look back to a classic Irish book you may not yet have had the chance to read, picking up ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Marianne Faithfull once described her career as "a triumph of style over substance abuse". Notorious Strumpet and Dangerous Girl brings ...

Pretty, witty Nelly Gwynn was an unusual woman for her time. An accomplished, yet illiterate actress in 17th-century London, Nell rose from her dirt-poor childhood to become star of the stage to ...

British director Danny Boyle returns to his roots with sparky results in "Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise" and "Strumpet," two low-budget, DV mini-features set among the underclasses of Northern ...

I was sitting in the champagne bar of the hotel when I finally caught the baffling spirit of Kiev. Not that I had had much to drink. I was just thinking about the city and looking forward to a small ...

Strayman, a spontaneous poet, is landlord to a pack of stray dogs. Unable to resist another of life's strays, he hooks up with Strumpet, a shy, homeless girl with an extraordinary gift for music.

NELL GWYN: ROYAL MISTRESS (309 pp.) John H. Wilson—Pellegrini & Cudahy ($4). One summer’s morning in 1669, Queen Catherine of England popped so inconsiderately into the bedchamber of her spouse, ...

IF ULYSSESIS Dublin's odyssey, Strumpet Cityis Dublin's epic. James Plunkett's panoramic masterpiece is shaped by the Joyce of Dublinersbut also by the social realism of Dickens and above all, Zola.