Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
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
Luminous Spaces
Seamus Deane’s contribution to the formulation of a new republicanism
Usuns, Themuns, Others
The complex lessons of the Northern Ireland population census
The Primacy of Politics
The thinkers and thought that underlay the War of Independence
A Classical Education
Enda O’Doherty writes: “Sorry,” my friend said. “I didn’t get that.” “Get what?” “What you said just now. Something in Latin I think … Not all of us, you know, had the benefit of a classical education.” I can no longer remember what the offending tag or reference was but I doubt if it…
Greed or Good?
Business and politics: two views on how they should interact
Writers United
The pros and cons of bringing writers together in a corporate body
Full Throttle
Dark but exhilarating stories of surreal events and parallel universes