Property values have moved on since Dutchman Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from unnamed Native Americans for 60 guilders in 1626.

In West Cork, it was as warm as the Canary Islands if one was in a sheltered corner or a stoutly built conservatory.

The pure raw delight that Golden Hill manages to conjure pretty much immediately is testament to author Francis Spufford’s love of the 18th century novel and his ability to create a Manhattan Island pulsing with energy and danger.

A mixture of desperation and inevitability casts a shadow over this weekend’s All-Ireland football qualifiers

YOU report (February 16) that a proposed wind farm “could produce enough energy to power 59,000 homes”.