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.

Louis MacNeice

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Issue140, January 2022

Down on the Farm

Down on the Farm

Heather Laird

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

Are We Civilised at All?

Are We Civilised at All?

Luke Warde

Fintan O’Toole’s personal narrative of Ireland’s ‘ascent to normality’

The Reunion

The Reunion

Philip Ó Ceallaigh

Leonard Cohen’s fusion of sacred and profane, of words and music

On the Brink

On the Brink

Martin Mansergh

Breaking away from the empire: the dilemma of the 1921 Treaty negotiators

Wild Child

Wild Child

Ann Kennedy Smith

Early to late: questions about the conventional Jane Austen timeline

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