Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Flashes of Gold
Memories of bohemian Dublin, the Grand Canal and ‘Baggotonia’
Thinking with Theatre
The development of Yeats’s theatre from words to choreography
The Mountain
Can Starmer take patriotism from the Tories and give it real social content?
Newest Labour
Is the ‘careful’ leadership of Sir Keir Starmer going to destroy Labour?
Understanding the Bards
A fourteenth-century bardic poet and patronage in medieval Ireland
Death from the Centre Out
The destruction of Dublin: a history of short-termism and political muddle
Cancelling Mailer
Norman Mailer meets the ‘fierce ladies’ and irretrievably loses the plot
The End of an Order
The end of containment, the expansion of NATO and the new threat
German Lessons
Enda O’Doherty writes: Up to his death at the age of ninety-three in 2013, Marcel Reich-Ranicki had long been the most influential literary critic in Germany and the German-speaking lands (Sprachraum). Through his contributions to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and later Der Spiegel, Reich-Ranicki provided his readers with authoritative judgments on what, in German…
Poems from the Lake
The compassionate vision and literary mastery of Eleanor Hooker
Cosmic Loneliness
Fictional therapy for the ‘climate grief’ of the ecotrauma epidemic
The Stendhal of Norfolk
New poetry volumes from Annemarie Ní Churreáin and George Szirtes