One More to Go
Ireland’s civil war and its impact on the patterns of 20th century politics
Ireland’s twentieth century history would not have been much different if the entity that emerged in 1922 had been called the Irish Republic rather than Saorstát Éireann. This doesn’t imply an absence of substantial politics, but rather that politics was overwhelmingly shaped by the material concerns of the electorate rather than the issues in dispute in the Civil War. In other words, in spite of what has been drummed into us almost ad nauseam, the politics of the twentieth century was not actually ‘Civil War politics’.
Intimate Oscillations
A poet’s odyssey ‑ from Dublin suburbs out into the world and back
Pagans, Snobs, Censors
Irish visual art and the vaunted uniqueness of our ‘spiritual heritage’
Intellectual Insurrection
The extraordinary range and tireless radical commitment of Edward Said
Not Like The Others
A pitch-perfect depiction of life as a teenage girl in 1980s Britain
The Pleasure Principle
A poet born to wealth and privilege whose gift miraculously survived
The World’s Doubleness
From the natural world to the grit and banality of everyday life
The Ghost Hunters
A literary treatment set in Florida of the classic ‘hero’s quest’ story
Belonging
The changing face of Ireland and the forces who are combating change
The Bloody Crown
The factors driving violence in Co Kerry during the revolutionary period
Rounding up the Strays
A new collection of the work of a doyenne of the literary review
One More to Go
Ireland’s civil war and its impact on the patterns of 20th century politics
Rounding up the Strays
A new collection of the work of a doyenne of the literary review
Patricia Craig’s work, which tackles a range of diverse subjects with ease and equanimity, proves that the review article can achieve standalone status; that reviewing is legitimately, as she insists, a ‘craft’, far removed from the scribblings of the dilettante and intrinsic to the momentum of literary history. More importantly, she is enduringly readable, even when writing about the unreadable, combining wit and perspicacity with what she prizes in Elizabeth Bowen: ‘an essential soundness of outlook’.
FROM PREVIOUS ISSUES
Our Enemies’ Enemies
How the US and the Vatican combined to help Nazis escape justice
Not So Equal
They lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles
Grá Don Domhain
Love of place, love of nature, love of life: the poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Blogs et cetera
What’ll I read?
If we were to pledge not to buy another book until we’d read every last one we have on our shelves at home, booksellers and publishers would soon go out of business. They should not worry, however, for our desire to buy and to collect seems to be unquenchable. As Italo Calvino observed, behind the doors of the bookshop a formidable array of volumes is always waiting to ambush you.
If we were to pledge not to buy another book until we’d read every last one we have on our shelves at home, booksellers and publishers would soon go out of business. They should not worry, however, for our desire to buy and to collect seems to be unquenchable. As Italo Calvino observed, behind the doors of the bookshop a formidable array of volumes is always waiting to ambush you.