Ailbhe Darcy
Articles by Ailbhe Darcy
2016
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Irish Literature
What Next?
Justin Quinn is fascinated by the inevitability that rhyme suggests: as one rhyme brings on another, so we are born, produce other lives, and die.…
2015
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Irish Literature
Time is What We’re Made of
Peter Sirr professes wariness of ‘consoling fictions’, of too easy moments of spiritual plenitude, which too easily pass from us again. His new collection catalogues…
2014
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Irish Literature
Frolicking in the Ether
Ciaran Perry’s second poetry collection has feel of a project wholly preconceived and systematically carried out, almost like a doctoral dissertation. Fortunately, he has knitted…
2013
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Irish Literature
A Tiny Space of Little Importance
As most of Ireland seethes at the individuals who prospered while the country pitched over into a financial sump, Justin Quinn has composed a novel…