Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
William’s World
Blake’s visions of Eden and the meaning of imagination in his verse
Yes We Can
An argument against pessimism and in support of deep human potential
The World Remade
A journey to motherhood, from miscarriage to the joy of birth
Surviving
Poems of strife and discovery that recall Swift, Behan and Durcan
University Pioneer
An Irish historian who encountered misogyny in her academic career
Late Blossoming
A moving poetic exploration of impermanence and mortality
The Attic Tarantino
The innovator Euripides puts the heedless Greek gods on the stage
Eat Up
The right stuff: how to eat your way into a superior social class
The Rebound
Germany’s rapid bounceback from the destruction of 1945’s ‘Zero Hour’
Bearing the Burden
Historians’ role in excusing the brutalities of empire-building
The Story from Below
The Irish working class’s long search for its voice to be heard in literature
People Like Us
Progressivism’s dirty secret: the left intellectuals abolish the poor