A magical realist lens on the life of the loyalist village of ‘Ballylack’
Two new poetry collections from Louise Callaghan and Jean O’Brien
Timothy Morton and Dermot Healy on the end of hierarchies in nature
Reflections on media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
A source book of commentary over 300 years on Irish art
Memories of bohemian Dublin, the Grand Canal and ‘Baggotonia’
The development of Yeats’s theatre from words to choreography
Can Starmer take patriotism from the Tories and give it real social content?
Is the ‘careful’ leadership of Sir Keir Starmer going to destroy Labour?
A fourteenth-century bardic poet and patronage in medieval Ireland
The destruction of Dublin: a history of short-termism and political muddle
Norman Mailer meets the ‘fierce ladies’ and irretrievably loses the plot
The end of containment, the expansion of NATO and the new threat