Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
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
Barefoot Kings?
Sifting the evidence on civilisation in Gaelic Ulster
Boss Cupid
The warm, human despatches of a gay poet from Reagan’s America
A Vanished Bohemia
A compelling memoir of Aidan Higgins and a mode of literary life now gone
Haunted Houses
Elizabeth Bowen’s love letters recall her first extramarital affair
Can history save us?
The need for global preparedness before the next pandemic arrives
Beyond the Ordinary
Can a woman living an ordinary life be a Renaissance Man?
Ulster Will Fight
Inter-communal violence in the early years of Northern Ireland