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O’Connell writes incisively about Macarthur, the murders and indeed the political fallout.

Get into the mood this Valentines Day with the most romantic picks from our library catalogue.

Suddenly his meaningless life is turned upside down and he is faced with the biggest questions: what is important to him and what will he take to get it?

Peadar from our IT team reviews Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino.

All of these titles are available in Dublin City Libraries.

On 7 April 1926 an Irish woman stepped out from a crowd in Rome and fired a shot at one of the 20th century's most infamous dictators. One bullet grazed the nose of Benito Mussolini, but the Italian leader survived the assassination attempt.

On International Women's Day, we recommend three books written from a female perspective, that look at the particular barriers women face in their careers. #BreaktheBias

Tadhg Barry was born in Cork in 1880 and educated locally before obtaining work as an asylum attendant. After a spell in England, he returned to Cork and worked with the newly established Old Age Pensions Board. By this time, Barry had Gaelicised his name and immersed himself in Cork’s Irish-Ireland movement and separatist organisations such as Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Recently a friend recommended this book, and I am grateful to her. The story is told by Robert and is set mainly in 1946, when he is sixteen years of age and sets out from his home in a coal mining village in Durham.