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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An affectionate portrait of Ernie O’Malley in war and in exile
Nobel laureate Louise Glück’s poetic use of figures from Greek mythology
Luke Cassidy’s novel of drug deals, heists and mess-ups along the border
Opinion: The faulty thinking of the boycott and divestment campaign
Where the line that separates our lives from chaos seems alarmingly thin
Vona Groarke marshals her strengths to poems notably apt for ‘these times’
Dropping in, not dropping out: Irish emigrants find a new destination
Growing up under, and then losing, the certainty that socialism will win
Joe Cleary explores world literature and Irish literature’s place in it
Farming, land and land hunger as a theme in modern Irish literature