Revolution was in the air in the late 18th century: first America cast off the colonial shackles, then triumphantly, newly republican France stretched out an anarchical hand of friendship, which Ireland’s home grown rebels, inspired and restless, gratefully grasped. Theobold Wolfe Tone, young, idealistic and impassioned was one such rebel....
If, by chance, you should be strolling by Rory O’More Bridge on a summer’s afternoon and should happen upon hundreds of goose pimpled men and women who, clad in their beachwear, descend onto a jetty in the river and dive willingly into the murky, icy waters below - well then,...