Essays
The Necessity of Yeats
Joseph M Hassett writes: The twenty-eighth day of January 2022 marks the eighty-third anniversary of the death of WB Yeats. Anniversaries remind us to...
A Revolutionary’s Life
An affectionate portrait of Ernie O’Malley in war and in exile
Family Troubles
Nobel laureate Louise Glück’s poetic use of figures from Greek mythology
Wheeler Dealers
Luke Cassidy’s novel of drug deals, heists and mess-ups along the border
Making Israel Unreal
Opinion: The faulty thinking of the boycott and divestment campaign
Caldron Bubble
Where the line that separates our lives from chaos seems alarmingly thin
From out of the Box
Vona Groarke marshals her strengths to poems notably apt for ‘these times’
Hello to Berlin
Dropping in, not dropping out: Irish emigrants find a new destination
Where To Next?
Joe Cleary explores world literature and Irish literature’s place in it
Down on the Farm
Farming, land and land hunger as a theme in modern Irish literature
Are We Civilised at All?
Fintan O’Toole’s personal narrative of Ireland’s ‘ascent to normality’
On the Brink
Breaking away from the empire: the dilemma of the 1921 Treaty negotiators
A Man of Many Parts
A brilliant historian and teacher who kept faith with the republic
The Man From Nowhere
Rallying the great and the good to build the European project from above
Now This Is The Truth
A satire on the political PR industry reminiscent of Waugh’s ‘Scoop’
The Destruction Principle
A working class striver and skiver in one, at home with the underdog
Whatever You Say
No news: letters from John McGahern, who didn’t like writing letters
Cain’s World
A protest against ‘the developer’ and paean to the wildness within
This Happy Breed
Multiple British fractures leave England alone to feast on its past
Eastward Ho!
Dublin’s expansion on the basis of the reclamation of land from the bay
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