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Issue 149, November 2022

Death in the Valley

Death in the Valley

Thomas McCarthy

Poems of flight, new beginnings, sad partings and rich harvests

Rumpled Giant

Rumpled Giant

Gerald Dawe

The greatest 20th century poet writing in English along with WB Yeats

The Grapes of Mirth

The Grapes of Mirth

Andreas Hess

The traditions and development of a very special Spanish wine

Their Story

Their Story

Rosita Sweetman

Nine families of sister siblings who were influential in Irish history

A Surrealist’s Journey

A Surrealist’s Journey

Eoin O’Brien

The life and myriad achievements of scientist and artist Desmond Morris

Roots Music

Roots Music

Fióna Bolger

Poems leading from the forest to the book, and the roots of book in forest

The Best Intentions

The Best Intentions

Dermot Dix

A British soldier and administrator in 18thc America, India and Ireland

Inventing the Republic?

Inventing the Republic?

Joe Cleary

Irish writers and their attitudes to the events of the revolutionary period

Light and Shade

Light and Shade

David O’Connor

A new collection of critical essays from the Co Wexford novelist Colm Tóibín

The Good Fight

The Good Fight

Maurice Walsh

American foreign correspondents at large in an age of optimism

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