Literature

Intimate Oscillations

A poet’s odyssey ‑ from Dublin suburbs out into the world and back

Keith Payne

Irish Art / Culture

Pagans, Snobs, Censors

Irish visual art and the vaunted uniqueness of our ‘spiritual heritage’

Alice Quinn Banville

Politics

Intellectual Insurrection

The extraordinary range and tireless radical commitment of Edward Said

Conor McCarthy

Literature

Not Like The Others

A pitch-perfect depiction of life as a teenage girl in 1980s Britain

Amanda Bell

Literature

The Pleasure Principle

A poet born to wealth and privilege whose gift miraculously survived

Gerald Dawe

Irish Literature

The World’s Doubleness

From the natural world to the grit and banality of everyday life

Clíona Ní Ríordáin

Literature

The Ghost Hunters

A literary treatment set in Florida of the classic ‘hero’s quest’ story

Aiden O’Reilly

Irish Politics

Belonging

The changing face of Ireland and the forces who are combating change

Jane Xavier

Literature

A Great Worker

The work which, 100 years ago, gave us the concept of the robot

Alena Dvořáková

Irish History

The Bloody Crown

The factors driving violence in Co Kerry during the revolutionary period

Bryce Evans

Literature

Finding a Space

Women and writing in Ireland’s breakthrough feminist ‘second wave’

Catriona Crowe

Politics

Wrongfooted by History

An up-close look at Northern Ireland’s Protestant community

Andy Pollak

Literature

Rounding up the Strays

A new collection of the work of a doyenne of the literary review

Eve Patten

Irish Politics

One More to Go 

Ireland’s civil war and its impact on the patterns of 20th century politics

Maurice Earls

Dublin

A Poet’s Dublin

A little blousy and rough around the edges but still a city of great beauty

Christine Dwyer Hickey