Anthony Roche
Articles by Anthony Roche
2024
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Literature
Failing Better
2023
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Literature
Hounding Oscar
2022
2018
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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…
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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…
2017
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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…
2016
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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,…
2011
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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…