Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Parents and Newcomers
Poetry and place: the case for transnationalism and translocalism
The Fascist Precursor
Fiume and the ‘poetic dictatorship’ of Gabriele d’Annunzio
The Light Fantastick
Dickens: master of imagination and verbal fancy footwork
A Grand Passion
Nora Barnacle’s life with ‘an envious, proud, lonely, discontented man’
Join the Queue
A fictional exploration of ideas pushed to their logical conclusion
Peeling the Onion
Let us look at Trump – so we don’t have to have him again.
According to John
Pluralist Ireland and the angry politics of John Waters
You Should Be Glad
With the Beatles: a sparkling account of an innocent mania
History on the Wing
Irish Catholics under the skin: a master class in journalism
Once Upon A Time
Marina Warner’s reimagining of a near magical transformation
Hail Ruritania!
A kingdom’s progress: from Duck Soup to Princess Diana
The Flowering
The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write