World Politics

The Nightmare of Gaza

Literature

Inventing the Republic? II

As might be expected, the immediate response to the Rising of those that were or would soon become the leading Irish writers was probably as…

Literature

Inventing the Republic?

Irish writers and their attitudes to the events of the revolutionary period

Literature

The Book in the World

Should ‘Ulysses’ be feted as a great novel, or a great something else?

Irish Art / Culture

Freedom’s Just Another Word

There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that rock music was foundationally both socially liberal and economically neoliberal from the mid-70s onwards. The…

World Literature

Old Europe, Aging America

Two recent works of literary theory sketch a robust structural account of the literary world system centred on London and Paris. But one might ask…