Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
A Cosmopolitan Voice
A selection of from the pages of the prestigious ‘Dublin Review’
Part of the Union
Fighting for decent salaries and conditions for low-paid civil servants
Back to the Womb
Manchán Magan’s guided tour through the landscapes of ancient Ireland
Many Rooms
A fascinating and at times unflinching autobiography from Paul Brady
Out of the Doldrums
The second Irish cultural revival of the late 1950s and early ’60s
Too much too soon
The unconsidered perils of the nationalist rush to Irish unity
On the Precipice
The short but productive life of Joseph Roth, elegist of Habsburg Austria
Murder Most Foul
The achievement of a great entertainer, ‘queen of crime’ Agatha Christie
I’m Dangerous, Me
Shriver’s irritation: a pose that doesn’t add up to a set of ideas
‘The Catholic Church’
What ‘everyone knows’ about Catholic Ireland, and the more complex reality
Celebrating Bricktop
A recent serendipitous find in the Oxfam shop in Belfast and costing all of £1.75, Professor Sharpley-Whiting’s account (she’s a US academic specialising in African-American and Diaspora studies) of the African-American women who travelled to Paris during the roaring 1920s to showcase their creativity away from the restrictive Jim Crow laws of their native land…
Death in the Valley
Poems of flight, new beginnings, sad partings and rich harvests