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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Issue140, January 2022

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

Down on the Farm

Down on the Farm

Heather Laird

Farming, land and land hunger as a theme in modern Irish literature

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