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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Flashes of Gold

Flashes of Gold

Eoin O’Brien

Memories of bohemian Dublin, the Grand Canal and ‘Baggotonia’

Cancelling Mailer

Cancelling Mailer

Kevin Power

Norman Mailer meets the ‘fierce ladies’ and irretrievably loses the plot

German Lessons

German Lessons

Enda O’Doherty

Enda O’Doherty writes: Up to his death at the age of ninety-three in 2013, Marcel Reich-Ranicki had long been the most influential literary critic in Germany and the German-speaking lands (Sprachraum). Through his contributions to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and later Der Spiegel, Reich-Ranicki provided his readers with authoritative judgments on what, in German […]

Getting Known

Getting Known

Gerald Dawe

A memoir of Patrick Kavanagh, the reflections of Thomas McCarthy

Boss Cupid

Boss Cupid

John McAuliffe

The warm, human despatches of a gay poet from Reagan’s America

A Vanished Bohemia

A Vanished Bohemia

Gerald Dawe

A compelling memoir of Aidan Higgins and a mode of literary life now gone

Haunted Houses

Haunted Houses

Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado

Elizabeth Bowen’s love letters recall her first extramarital affair

Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time

Patricia Craig

Marina Warner’s reimagining of a near magical transformation

The Sly Masquerade

The Sly Masquerade

Kevin Stevens

For quality of output, for growth and longevity, for the honesty and intensity of his narrative voices and for the relentless quest for forms that would make sense of his and his country’s experience,

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