What’s your new year’s resolution? Mine is: don’t crack up. The apparent simplicity of this resolution belies the ingenious strategies…

We’re going through boxes of memories here in Oranmore and have found proof that I’ve been a committed diarist of…

My mother’s partner died in June. He crashed his car coming back from a point-to-point race meet. A great man for the horses, a terrible man for the cars. I was on the first flight home to Ireland. John and I were close: allies, you might say, in the complicated game of family…