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A Life of Journeys

A Life of Journeys

Sean Sheehan

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History, by Peter Brown, Princeton University Press, 736 pp, £38, ISBN: 978-0691242286 As a young boy growing up in the 1930s in a Dublin Protestant family, Peter Brown could have been personally acquainted with the unblessed coupling of politics with religion long before he wrote about its presence […]

Anyone for Tennis?

Anyone for Tennis?

John Fleming

An engaging and self-deprecating meditation on getting on

A Voracious Reader

A Voracious Reader

Seamus Martin

Peering into Stalin’s soul from the scribbles in the margins of his books

A German Requiem

A German Requiem

Peter Brooke

Fashion model, rocker, poet, addict: the strange life of the singer Nico

Hugging Stalin

Hugging Stalin

Michael Foley

Growing up under, and then losing, the certainty that socialism will win

Are We Civilised at All?

Are We Civilised at All?

Luke Warde

Fintan O’Toole’s personal narrative of Ireland’s ‘ascent to normality’

The Reunion

The Reunion

Philip Ó Ceallaigh

Leonard Cohen’s fusion of sacred and profane, of words and music

In That Dawn

In That Dawn

Gerard Smyth

The carefree days before Belfast became the capital of the Troubles

Skydiving

Skydiving

Fióna Bolger

A poetic auto-fiction on migration, trauma and shifting identities

Urban Shock

Urban Shock

John McAuliffe

A moving meditation on a working class past from a London-Irish historian

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