Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
A Stay of Time
A tale of quest full of gritty realism, related in Sara Baume’s electric prose
Life in the Ghost Dog
A collection in which many poems are akin to well-worked short stories
Huguenot Voices
Diaries and memoirs of French Protestant refugees in Ireland
England and St George
The Brexit sensibility: between nostalgia and nationalism
Diversifying the Horizon
Complementing science with tribal strategies for human survival
Against the Grain
Poems marked by fierce imagination and enlivened by puckish wit
High Bred Yet Hybrid
A novelistic recreation of the life of the co-author of ‘The Irish RM’
The Opposite of Hatred
The afterlife of Christianity after the disappearance of religious belief
The Blind I
Avoiding speaking of the violence that is going on around us
Together Again?
A Northern novelist probes the reality behind the Border poll scenario
From Trendy to Ted
Reflections on the TV career of comic actor Dermot Morgan
Where Art Happens
Novelist and critic: the book review as potential art form in itself