Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Not Like The Others
A pitch-perfect depiction of life as a teenage girl in 1980s Britain
The Pleasure Principle
A poet born to wealth and privilege whose gift miraculously survived
The World’s Doubleness
From the natural world to the grit and banality of everyday life
The Ghost Hunters
A literary treatment set in Florida of the classic ‘hero’s quest’ story
Belonging
The changing face of Ireland and the forces who are combating change
A Great Worker
The work which, 100 years ago, gave us the concept of the robot
The Bloody Crown
The factors driving violence in Co Kerry during the revolutionary period
Finding a Space
Women and writing in Ireland’s breakthrough feminist ‘second wave’
Wrongfooted by History
An up-close look at Northern Ireland’s Protestant community
Rounding up the Strays
A new collection of the work of a doyenne of the literary review
One More to Go
Ireland’s civil war and its impact on the patterns of 20th century politics
A Poet’s Dublin
A little blousy and rough around the edges but still a city of great beauty