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Issue140, January 2022

Hounding Oscar

Hounding Oscar

Anthony Roche

Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings from Arrest to Imprisonment, by Joseph Bristow, Yale University Press, 672 pp, £65, ISBN: 978-0300222722 This is certainly not the first book to be devoted to the trials of Oscar Wilde. As early as 1912 there was Christopher Sclater Millard’s Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried. The word has […]

A Revolutionary’s Life

A Revolutionary’s Life

Gerald Dawe

An affectionate portrait of Ernie O’Malley in war and in exile

Family Troubles

Family Troubles

Tanvi Roberts

Nobel laureate Louise Glück’s poetic use of figures from Greek mythology

Wheeler Dealers

Wheeler Dealers

Mary Nagle

Luke Cassidy’s novel of drug deals, heists and mess-ups along the border

Making Israel Unreal

Making Israel Unreal

Donal Moloney

Opinion: The faulty thinking of the boycott and divestment campaign

Caldron Bubble

Caldron Bubble

Dick Edelstein

Where the line that separates our lives from chaos seems alarmingly thin

From out of the Box

From out of the Box

Ross Moore

Vona Groarke marshals her strengths to poems notably apt for ‘these times’

Hello to Berlin

Hello to Berlin

Margaret Haverty

Dropping in, not dropping out: Irish emigrants find a new destination

Hugging Stalin

Hugging Stalin

Michael Foley

Growing up under, and then losing, the certainty that socialism will win

Where To Next?

Where To Next?

Enda Duffy

Joe Cleary explores world literature and Irish literature’s place in it

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