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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Issue 133, May 2021

At Bates Motel

At Bates Motel

Susan McKeever

Grief, addiction, abuse, self-harm, motherhood, breakdown, hilarity

Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter

Sean Byrne

The schemes and stratagems that help the rich stay rich

Hard Power

Hard Power

Sean Sheehan

Thucydides and the pursuit of domination through warfare

Walking the Wild Side

Walking the Wild Side

Patrick Duffy

Wintering out in Mayo’s lonely glens and boglands

Witness to War

Witness to War

Katrina Goldstone

Peadar O’Donnell walks into Franco’s military revolt

Parents and Newcomers

Parents and Newcomers

Justin Quinn

Poetry and place: the case for transnationalism and translocalism

The Fascist Precursor

The Fascist Precursor

Aidan O’Malley

Fiume and the ‘poetic dictatorship’ of Gabriele d’Annunzio

The Light Fantastick

The Light Fantastick

Brian Cosgrove

Dickens: master of imagination and verbal fancy footwork

A Grand Passion

A Grand Passion

Afric McGlinchey

Nora Barnacle’s life with ‘an envious, proud, lonely, discontented man’

Join the Queue

Join the Queue

Aiden O’Reilly

A fictional exploration of ideas pushed to their logical conclusion

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