Biography

Joyce and Parnell

A large and ambitious attempt to shed new light on Joyce's work fails to convince.

Irish Literature

Witness to Revival

Mary Colum’s memoir of Ireland, literary revival and modernism

Irish Literature

Friendly! Dynamic! Various!

Saluting progress in Ireland and the contributions of artists to liberalisation is not the same kind of action as analysis or evaluation. Can critics, while…

World Literature

Pulling back the curtains

The heroines of the Victorian novel encountered a blockage in their lives that Sally Rooney’s do not. Might access to education have made a difference?…