The novelist's life, love, and travels in 19th-century Ireland... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Thackeray on Grattan Hill, by Lourdes Mackey above.
"If you take a scove around my neck-of-the-woods, St. Luke's, in Cork City, and wander up Grattan Hill you will find, near the top, on the wall of a Georgian terraced house, a sign that reads simply, '1811 – 1863, William M. Thackeray, Writer.’..."
This essay appeared on the programme of 31 August 2025 and you can listen to that full programme here
