Literature

Failing Better

Literature

Hounding Oscar

Literature

Thinking with Theatre

The development of Yeats’s theatre from words to choreography

Irish Literature

Politics in the Margins

Though he was long perceived as an apolitical writer, Samuel Beckett’s three main publishers, in Paris, London and New York, were known for works with…

Irish Literature

Judging Fintan Judging Shaw

Most Shavians steer clear of discussing Shaw’s final decades. It is then that he starts cuddling up to dictators, of whom there was no shortage…

Irish Literature

Sweet and Sour

The trajectory of Molly Keane’s life was different from most other people’s and most other writers’: the tragedy – the early death of her husband…

The Last Ditch

In 1969, as the fourth and final volume of his correspondence reveals, Samuel Beckett let it be known in a letter to his German publisher,…

Now About All These Women

She had the requisite beauty, but what made her both unique and compelling was that this was joined to a passionate involvement in Irish nationalist…