History

The Third Man

Literature

Big House to Little House

Irish History

Breaking Their Will

The physical violation of the body in force-feeding, introduced against suffragettes, highlighted issues of domination, servitude, and the desire to humiliate. Infinitely worse than the…

Irish History

The Cream Separatist Movement

Is the country destined to always lag behind the city? Sinn Féin, a creation of the urban bourgeois intelligentsia, took off as a national movement…

Irish Art / Culture

Once Upon a Space

One of the main concerns of Brian O’Doherty’s collected essays is to raise questions about the retreat into subjectivity responsible for the cult of the…

World Literature

The Other Side of the Sky

For some it is only a matter of time before the digital world catches up with its human creators, but for Wittgenstein it was a…

Irish Literature

No Homes To Go To

Dorothy Macardle was a friend of de Valera, an historian of the idea of the Irish Republic and a novelist. Her story ‘The Uninvited’, memorably…