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Issue 145, June 2022

Too Much, Not Enough

Too Much, Not Enough

Desmond Traynor

A meditation on time and the pressure to use it productively

From the Home Front

From the Home Front

Gerald Dawe

The letters of an American woman living in wartime Northern Ireland

Darts of Thought

Darts of Thought

Afric McGlinchey

An exploration of the complexities of identity and relationships

The Spin of Things

The Spin of Things

Keith Payne

Darkly optimistic poems salvaged from the suburban humdrum

A Contented Heart

A Contented Heart

Tim Murphy

Poems of love and loss articulated in a spirit of quiet affirmation

Hack and Hero

Hack and Hero

Frank Freeman

Leslie McFarlane: the career of a prolific and successful hack writer

Vivid Faces

Vivid Faces

Daniel Mulhall

The reputation of ‘Ulysses’ in Ireland during its first century

A Diplomatic Odyssey

A Diplomatic Odyssey

David Blake Knox

The ‘soft power’ of promoting the literary heritage of Ireland abroad

The Gift

The Gift

Katrina Goldstone

Howard Jacobson on what he got from his Mancunian Jewish upbringing

A Tonic for Our Times

A Tonic for Our Times

Patricia Craig

Margaret Atwood’s astute, sparkling takes on social and literary matters

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