Society

A Place for the Arts

In 1921, the second Dáil innovatively nominated a minister for fine arts, Count Horace Plunkett, and two staff. In his nineteen weeks in office, Plunkett…

Biography

Urban Shock

A moving meditation on a working class past from a London-Irish historian

Literary Life

Boss Cupid

The warm, human despatches of a gay poet from Reagan’s America

World Literature

Brave Answers

A new collection casts further light on the clergyman-poet RS Thomas and his two great subjects, God and Wales