Essays
Celebrating Bricktop
A recent serendipitous find in the Oxfam shop in Belfast and costing all of £1.75, Professor Sharpley-Whiting’s account (she’s a US academic specialising in...
Death in the Valley
Poems of flight, new beginnings, sad partings and rich harvests
Rumpled Giant
The greatest 20th century poet writing in English along with WB Yeats
The Grapes of Mirth
The traditions and development of a very special Spanish wine
Their Story
Nine families of sister siblings who were influential in Irish history
A Surrealist’s Journey
The life and myriad achievements of scientist and artist Desmond Morris
Roots Music
Poems leading from the forest to the book, and the roots of book in forest
Inventing the Republic?
Irish writers and their attitudes to the events of the revolutionary period
The Good Fight
American foreign correspondents at large in an age of optimism
Artistic Differences
The Fab Two: Lennon and McCarney working with and against each other
Getting There
Blueprints for the path to a successful referendum and a united Ireland
The Casement Diaries
While trying not to overburden readers with detail, it is important to counter unevidenced assertions and to correct errors in Martin Mansergh’s review of...
Beyond Chatter
Making sense: the ‘antiphilosophical’ philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Love in the Dark
A love-across-the-divide story from the North - with a difference
A Wading Light
Seán Hewitt’s memoir of queer love, helplessness and heartbreak
Poetry and Fishing
Retracing the journeys of the enthusiastic angler Ted Hughes
Spreading Civilisation
Lecky, liberalism and Britain’s role as world leader
Otters and Orioles
A well-read eye observes nature over the passing years
Movements in the Deep
A Japanese mystery that evokes the slippery nature of memory
The Kilmichael Ambush
Re-examining the controversial events of the war in Co Cork
The English School
A defence of the centrality of history to international relations
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