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Issue 144, May 2022

The Opposite of Hatred

The Opposite of Hatred

Paul O’Mahoney

The afterlife of Christianity after the disappearance of religious belief

The Blind I

The Blind I

Lia Mills

Avoiding speaking of the violence that is going on around us

Together Again?

Together Again?

Gerald Dawe

A Northern novelist probes the reality behind the Border poll scenario

From Trendy to Ted

From Trendy to Ted

David Blake Knox

Reflections on the TV career of comic actor Dermot Morgan

Where Art Happens

Where Art Happens

Tom Hennigan

Novelist and critic: the book review as potential art form in itself

The New Centre

The New Centre

Enda O’Doherty

“The political centre cannot hold,” wrote Fintan O’Toole in the opening sentence of his Irish Times column of April 16th. “If this was not already obvious, last Sunday’s [first-round presidential] elections in France have surely made it so.” How, one might ask, does that confident statement stand up after the second round of those elections, […]

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