Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Now This Is The Truth
A satire on the political PR industry reminiscent of Waugh’s ‘Scoop’
The Destruction Principle
A working class striver and skiver in one, at home with the underdog
Whatever You Say
No news: letters from John McGahern, who didn’t like writing letters
Cain’s World
A protest against ‘the developer’ and paean to the wildness within
This Happy Breed
Multiple British fractures leave England alone to feast on its past
Eastward Ho!
Dublin’s expansion on the basis of the reclamation of land from the bay
Killing Bad Guys
Lara Marlowe’s memoir of her years with Robert Fisk in love and war
Coasting
A Reader from ‘Archipelago’, a review celebrating wild Britain and Ireland
Cometh the Day
The case for the union, and the case for respecting law and democracy
Tell us a Story
The pursuit of fictive pleasure: on not getting Fernando Pessoa
Station of the Cross
Irish television: a dangerous medium is launched in a Catholic country
The Smartest Boy
The moral failings and deep hypocrisy of an unusually able Taoiseach