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Book review: The Lamplighters of Phoenix Park is an illuminating ramble around Dublin’s ‘green lung’
Social historian and Three Castles Burning podcaster Donal Fallon’s gently meandering, richly illustrated book offers a folk history of the Phoenix Park
The Phoenix Park gave Winston Churchill what he wryly called “my introduction to Irish politics”. Growing up in the building now called Áras an Uachtaráin (where his grandfather served as Viceroy of Ireland), Britain’s future wartime leader fell off his donkey and suffered a brain concussion after mistaking some soldiers for a gang of Fenians.
Young Winston’s fear was hardly irrational, since just a few years later the Irish Chief Secretary and his top civil ...
