Essays
Intimate Oscillations
A poet’s odyssey ‑ from Dublin suburbs out into the world and back
Pagans, Snobs, Censors
Irish visual art and the vaunted uniqueness of our ‘spiritual heritage’
Intellectual Insurrection
The extraordinary range and tireless radical commitment of Edward Said
Not Like The Others
A pitch-perfect depiction of life as a teenage girl in 1980s Britain
The Pleasure Principle
A poet born to wealth and privilege whose gift miraculously survived
The World’s Doubleness
From the natural world to the grit and banality of everyday life
The Ghost Hunters
A literary treatment set in Florida of the classic ‘hero’s quest’ story
Belonging
The changing face of Ireland and the forces who are combating change
The Bloody Crown
The factors driving violence in Co Kerry during the revolutionary period
Rounding up the Strays
A new collection of the work of a doyenne of the literary review
One More to Go
Ireland’s civil war and its impact on the patterns of 20th century politics
Barefoot Kings?
Sifting the evidence on civilisation in Gaelic Ulster
Boss Cupid
The warm, human despatches of a gay poet from Reagan’s America
A Vanished Bohemia
A compelling memoir of Aidan Higgins and a mode of literary life now gone
Haunted Houses
Elizabeth Bowen’s love letters recall her first extramarital affair
Can history save us?
The need for global preparedness before the next pandemic arrives
Beyond the Ordinary
Can a woman living an ordinary life be a Renaissance Man?
Ulster Will Fight
Inter-communal violence in the early years of Northern Ireland
Apple Concentrate
Weirdness, greatness and everything in between: New Yorkers talk the talk
From Ronald to Donald
US Republican Party strategy and the irresistible populist temptation
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