World Literature

Alone in Luanda

An exceptional novel from an Angolan writer details the brutality, cynicism and tragedy of war. Comedy, love and a touch of magic realism also contribute…

Is cuimhin liom

The highlight of the state’s celebration of 1916 came on Easter Sunday, when it was established beyond doubt that the title Óglaigh na hÉireann belongs…

Irish History

On a Wing and a Prayer

In 1978 John Zachary DeLorean made a successful pitch for British state aid to start production in West Belfast of what he said would be…

World Art / Culture

Warts and All

John Deakin recorded in his photographs the Soho of the 1950s, a bohemia inhabited by painters like Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud and poets like…