I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

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Biography

Are We Civilised at All?

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

The Reunion

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

In That Dawn

The carefree days before Belfast became the capital of the Troubles

Skydiving

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

Urban Shock

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

Restless Angel

The greatest songwriter in the Irish tradition in the history of recording

Rights and Wrongs

Hannah Arendt: witness and theorist of the advent of modern totalitarianism

The Anti-Freud

Dr Trotter challenged Freud, asserting that ‘all human psychology … must be the psychology of associated man, since man as a solitary animal is unknown to us’