A brilliant historian and teacher who kept faith with the republic
Rallying the great and the good to build the European project from above
A satire on the political PR industry reminiscent of Waugh’s ‘Scoop’
A working class striver and skiver in one, at home with the underdog
No news: letters from John McGahern, who didn’t like writing letters
A protest against ‘the developer’ and paean to the wildness within
Multiple British fractures leave England alone to feast on its past
Dublin’s expansion on the basis of the reclamation of land from the bay
Lara Marlowe’s memoir of her years with Robert Fisk in love and war
A Reader from ‘Archipelago’, a review celebrating wild Britain and Ireland
The case for the union, and the case for respecting law and democracy
The pursuit of fictive pleasure: on not getting Fernando Pessoa
Irish television: a dangerous medium is launched in a Catholic country
The moral failings and deep hypocrisy of an unusually able Taoiseach
Jonathan Franzen’s America is a place of insecurity and confusion.