Poetry

Longing for Flight

Time on our hands: the locked-down poet raids memories of past travel

Irish Literature

Warm words from the dreary steeples

Can one still enjoy, after several decades, the stories of Benedict Kiely, empathise with their rural themes and collude with their soft sectarian notions in…

Irish History

Doing The Locomotion

Dubliner Dionysius Lardner couldn’t wangle a job at Trinity despite his remarkable gifts of clarity and exposition, but he was nevertheless a successful publisher in…