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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National character: English decorum versus dreamy Celtic fecklessness
Mary Colum’s memoir of Ireland, literary revival and modernism
A Tale Told by an Idiot: Jordan Peterson’s daring fictional gambit
An examination of Italian cinematic neorealism and its artistic antecedents
The great photographers caught through the lens of a playful semantics
The ‘isolated and outlandish’ domain of the doomed Big House gentry
A diary of English high society that is high on snobbery but low on insight
Why unionists might be better off thinking, and doing, the unthinkable
Literacy in religious thinking may be necessary to tackle the world crisis