Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Rumpled Giant
The greatest 20th century poet writing in English along with WB Yeats
The Grapes of Mirth
The traditions and development of a very special Spanish wine
Their Story
Nine families of sister siblings who were influential in Irish history
A Surrealist’s Journey
The life and myriad achievements of scientist and artist Desmond Morris
Roots Music
Poems leading from the forest to the book, and the roots of book in forest
The Best Intentions
A British soldier and administrator in 18thc America, India and Ireland
Inventing the Republic?
Irish writers and their attitudes to the events of the revolutionary period
Light and Shade
A new collection of critical essays from the Co Wexford novelist Colm Tóibín
The Good Fight
American foreign correspondents at large in an age of optimism
When Beauty Lands
The giddy promise and remarkable elegance of tennis genius Roger Federer
Artistic Differences
The Fab Two: Lennon and McCarney working with and against each other
Getting There
Blueprints for the path to a successful referendum and a united Ireland