David Dunne

Some years ago, on a chilly March day, I paid a visit to Toronto’s Ireland Park. As an Irishman who had made his home in Canada, I was interested in the experience of past generations of Irish immigrants. But the park wasn’t easy to find. Walled off from the city by old Canada Malting silos, it is a tiny patch of grass alongside Lake…

In 2017, in the west of Ireland, the remains of almost 800 children were found in a mass grave. Shocking as the discovery was, few were surprised. The bones of several children had, in fact, been uncovered in 1975 by two boys playing in an orchard where the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home — a Catholic institution for “fallen” women and their infants — had once…

There is not much to say about Benetton. Nice, mid-range, fashionable but not too edgy clothing. But in the 1990s, Benetton had quite a lot to say about itself—and others had quite a lot to say about Benetton. Or, at least, about its advertising. The campaign in question was a series of “shock ads”: billboards about social…

You can bet a dollar to a doughnut that heaven is round with a hole in the middle. Just like the doughnut itself: fragrant, warm and deeply satisfying. The snack of chubby cherubs. Chocolate almond biscotti? Light and crunchy, yes, but where is that stick-to-your-ribs, contentedly full feeling? Doughnuts are comfort food par excellence…

It is dusk on a remote stretch of highway in the California desert. As the heat rises and the shadows lengthen, two muscle cars face each other, their engines roaring. At a signal, the drivers, blond, tanned young men wearing dark sunglasses and brave grins, explode their cars from their starting points and race head-long toward each…