‘Belfast did not escape the Famine’: why city’s mass graves and memorials tell the true tragic tale of The Great Hunger

Historian and tour guide Dr Robyn Atcheson on the Famine's true, tragic impact on Belfast and why her events during this year ...

The family myth at the heart of Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel

Novelist Maggie O’Farrell brought Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, out of the footnotes of history with her 2020 novel Hamnet. Its ...