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Ireland’s Victorian ‘great detectives’

In our first Dictionary of Irish Biography blog of 2024, Patrick Maume highlights some examples of Irish ‘great detectives’, elusive figures who have nevertheless become prominent in our fiction, politics and popular culture.

In our first Dictionary of Irish Biography blog of 2024, Patrick Maume highlights some examples of Irish ‘great detectives’, elusive figures who have nevertheless become prominent in our fiction, politics and popular culture.

Article image: A still image of John Barrymore in the film Sherlock Holmes (1922), Copyright: Public Domain; source Wikicommons