Irish History

Listening to the Women

Voices are central to the project of revolution, just as they are afterwards, and not only as a metaphor. If the 1916 rising was staged…

Irish Art / Culture

Traffic in Mockery

The selling off of Ireland’s cultural heritage makes for decent business. Recently the treasures of what the auctioneer described as ‘Ireland’s greatest literary and artistic…

Irish Art / Culture

Not Biting Their Tongues

An exhibition at Trinity College Dublin shows the wonderful variety and vigour of writing about the visual arts in Ireland in the 1890s and the…

Synge’s Violin

In requiring “regular metrical pulses” of “folk” music White is surely smarting from an overexposure to the regular grumbling of the bodhran, which indeed the…