Eoghan Smith
Articles by Eoghan Smith
2015
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Irish Literature
It’s That Man Again
Banville’s heroes are by now familiar to us. Remote, middle-aged elitist types, tortured by the burden of existence and the shadow of death, they may…
2013
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Irish Literature
Imagining the Others
An accessible crime thriller it may be, but John Banville’s most celebrated novel also marks out his singular intellectual ambition, an ambition that in the…
2010
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Haunted By Ghosts
The Celtic Tiger years have seen a generation of writers emerge that has found in history a way of thinking about the present. It is…
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The Melancholy Gods
Hermes records in his narrative the complicated relations of the Godley family, as they wait for the patriarch, Adam, to die. Once a celebrated mathematician,…