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The Casement Diaries
While trying not to overburden readers with detail, it is important to counter unevidenced assertions and to correct errors in Martin Mansergh’s review of Paul Hyde’s book Casement: Decoding False History (http://192.168.1.49/drbdup0601/articles/blackening-casement/). Hyde has published an earlier book entitled Anatomy of a Lie, offering a number of other theories on the supposed forging of…
Beyond Chatter
Making sense: the ‘antiphilosophical’ philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Love in the Dark
A love-across-the-divide story from the North – with a difference
A Wading Light
Seán Hewitt’s memoir of queer love, helplessness and heartbreak
Poetry and Fishing
Retracing the journeys of the enthusiastic angler Ted Hughes
Spreading Civilisation
Lecky, liberalism and Britain’s role as world leader
Otters and Orioles
A well-read eye observes nature over the passing years
Movements in the Deep
A Japanese mystery that evokes the slippery nature of memory
The Kilmichael Ambush
Re-examining the controversial events of the war in Co Cork
The English School
A defence of the centrality of history to international relations
A Salutary Lesson
Russia’s vicious 19th century wars of conquest in Asia
A State of Chassis
How neoliberalism hollows out liberalism and democracy