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 136, September 2021

Intimate Oscillations

Intimate Oscillations

Keith Payne

A poet’s odyssey ‑ from Dublin suburbs out into the world and back

Pagans, Snobs, Censors

Pagans, Snobs, Censors

Alice Quinn Banville

Irish visual art and the vaunted uniqueness of our ‘spiritual heritage’

Intellectual Insurrection

Intellectual Insurrection

Conor McCarthy

The extraordinary range and tireless radical commitment of Edward Said

Not Like The Others

Not Like The Others

Amanda Bell

A pitch-perfect depiction of life as a teenage girl in 1980s Britain

The Pleasure Principle

The Pleasure Principle

Gerald Dawe

A poet born to wealth and privilege whose gift miraculously survived

The World’s Doubleness

The World’s Doubleness

Clíona Ní Ríordáin

From the natural world to the grit and banality of everyday life

The Ghost Hunters

The Ghost Hunters

Aiden O’Reilly

A literary treatment set in Florida of the classic ‘hero’s quest’ story

Belonging

Belonging

Jane Xavier

The changing face of Ireland and the forces who are combating change

A Great Worker

A Great Worker

Alena Dvořáková

The work which, 100 years ago, gave us the concept of the robot

The Bloody Crown

The Bloody Crown

Bryce Evans

The factors driving violence in Co Kerry during the revolutionary period

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