Issue140, January 2022
In This Issue
From out of the Box
Vona Groarke marshals her strengths to poems notably apt for ‘these times’
Are We Civilised at All?
Fintan O’Toole’s personal narrative of Ireland’s ‘ascent to normality’
An affectionate portrait of Ernie O’Malley in war and in exile
Nobel laureate Louise Glück’s poetic use of figures from Greek mythology
Luke Cassidy’s novel of drug deals, heists and mess-ups along the border
Opinion: The faulty thinking of the boycott and divestment campaign
Where the line that separates our lives from chaos seems alarmingly thin
Vona Groarke marshals her strengths to poems notably apt for ‘these times’
Dropping in, not dropping out: Irish emigrants find a new destination
Growing up under, and then losing, the certainty that socialism will win
Joe Cleary explores world literature and Irish literature’s place in it
Farming, land and land hunger as a theme in modern Irish literature
Fintan O’Toole’s personal narrative of Ireland’s ‘ascent to normality’
Leonard Cohen’s fusion of sacred and profane, of words and music
Breaking away from the empire: the dilemma of the 1921 Treaty negotiators
Early to late: questions about the conventional Jane Austen timeline