Royal Rebel

Seosamh Mac Grianna’s best-known work, newly translated as ‘This Road of Mine’, is more novel than autobiography and is also an exploration of the relationship…

Irish Literature

Sunny Days, Fairy Nights

A new anthology of children’s literature in Irish asks what we can learn from a study of this field on the experience of childhood in…

Augmenting Memory, Dispelling Amnesia

Clearly these iconic books resulted from intervention on the part of outsiders, who convinced islanders they had something of importance to say. This was consonant…