Heart of class – An Irishman’s Diary on Friedrich Engels and Mary Burns

The Young Karl Marx: Birth of a working-class superhero

Review: A cerebral bromance between the charismatic Marx and the rakish Engels

How to stay married for 50 years

Review: RTÉ profiles couples held together by unflagging support and comic schtick

The Irish women behind Engels and the birth of communism

Gavin McCrea’s research into the elusive, illiterate Lizzie Burns is now a historical novel

Mrs Engels author Gavin McCrea on the Irish sisters who inspired Engels and Marx

To the lives of Mary and Lizzie Burns, we have no guide. These two illiterate Irishwomen, by their actions and associations, wrote themselves into history. Despite, or perhaps because of their lack of historical weight, I adored them instantly and decided to write a novel about them