![]() | Andrew Hughes Born in Co. Wexford, ANDREW HUGHES was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. A qualified archivist, he worked for RTE before going freelance. It was while researching his acclaimed social history of Fitzwilliam Square - Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin's Fitzwilliam Square, 1798-1922 - that he first came across the true story of John Delahunt that inspired his debut novel, The Convictions of John Delahunt. Andrew Hughes lives in Dublin.
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Dublin, 1841. On a cold December morning, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. This killing causes a public outcry. For it appears the culprit - a feckless student named John Delahunt ...Quick View
Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin's Fitzwilliam Square, 1798-1922
By: Andrew Hughes
01 Apr 2011 - The Liffey Press
Examines how the people of Fitzwilliam square on the south side of Dublin impacted on the history of Dublin and the wider world. This title lets you follow the legal inhabitants of this Georgian square into the nineteent ...Quick View
Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her new-born in the home of the Neshams, a prominent family in a radical Christian sect known as the Brethren. Rumours swirl about the identity of the ...Quick View
Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her new-born in the home of the Neshams, a prominent family in a radical Christian sect known as the Brethren. Rumours swirl about the identity of the ...Quick View
On a cold December morning in 1841, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. But when the people of Dublin learn why John Delahunt committed this vile crime, the outcry leaves no room for ...Quick View
Dublin, 1816 – the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to mid-July, and a lingering fog casts a pall over a city torn between evangelical and rationalist dogma, stirred by zealotry and civil ...Quick View