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Space to Think, a new book celebrating ten years of the Dublin Review of Books More Information

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10 years of DRB

The Dublin Review of Books is pleased to present a handsome book of over 500 pages celebrating some of the finest writing from its first ten years.

The Maamtrasna Murders

Margaret Kelleher

The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective of language change in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Professor Kelleher takes the Maamtrasna case - one that is notorious for its failure to provide interpretation and translation services for monoglot Irish speakers - and examines broader sociolinguistic issues, moving Maamtrasna's violation of human rights from a local to a global stage.

Cathal Brugha

Fergus O'Farrell

Cathal Brugha was a figure of central importance to the Irish Revolution and despite this, he is almost totally neglected in the history of this period. This is the first dedicated English-language biography to focus on this fascinating figure. Using new archival material from the Bureau of Military History, Fergus O'Farrell documents Brugha's career as a revolutionary. This closely-researched work examines Brugha's complex attitudes to violence as well as illuminating his commitment to political methods.

Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture

Aidan Beatty and Dan O’Brien

This collection of essays makes a timely and important contribution to both Irish and Jewish studies.

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"John Hewitt’s A North Light: Twenty-five years in a Municipal Art Gallery shows he was a much-travelled, well-read, enthusiastic art lover with an independent spirit and sense of dissent." Extract from Gerald Dawe’s The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing is published by Irish Academic Press.

The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing

Gerald Dawe

"John Hewitt’s A North Light: Twenty-five years in a Municipal Art Gallery shows he was a much-travelled, well-read, enthusiastic art lover with an independent spirit and sense of dissent." Extract from Gerald Dawe’s The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing is published by Irish Academic Press.

Extract

"John Hewitt’s A North Light: Twenty-five years in a Municipal Art Gallery shows he was a much-travelled, well-read, enthusiastic art lover with an independent spirit and sense of dissent." Extract from Gerald Dawe’s The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing is published by Irish Academic Press.

The Alhambra Revealed

Michael B. Barry

Three Daughters of Eve

Elif Shafak

Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal.

The Invention of Angela Carter

Edmund Gordon

This is the story of how Angela Carter invented herself – as a new kind of woman and a new kind of writer – and how she came to write such seductive works as The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children. Edmund Gordon has followed in Carter’s footsteps to uncover a life rich in incident and adventure.

How Will Capitalism End?

Wolfgang Streeck

Acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is about to change. The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of World War Two, is coming to an end.

Diaries and Selected Letters: Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov; Roger Cockrell (trans)

This ample selection from the diaries and letters of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of The Master and Margarita – now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature – provides an insightful glimpse into the author’s world and into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime.

Dublin 7

Bernard Neary

A beautifully illustrated volume (with maps and photographs) covering the rich history of Dublin 7, including the areas of Ashtown, Broadstone, Cabra, Cardiffsbridge, Grangegorman, the Navan Road, Phibsborough, the Royal Canal, Smithfield, Stoneybatter, Church Street and the Quays.

Grand Hotel Abyss

Stuart Jeffries

In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today.

Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906

Carla King

Michael Davitt is known as the 'Father of the Land League', but this book uncovers Davitt above and beyond the Land League, bringing his later story back into the light by exploring his career in the 24 years between his leadership of the Land League and his death in 1906.

Swing Time

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith's new novel moves from north west London to West Africa, a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them.

Washing Windows? Irish Women Write Poetry

Butterflies of a Bad Summer

Karl Parkinson

New poetry collection from Dublin's Karl Parkinson, an exciting new poetic voice. "Parkinson has set himself up unashamedly and without irony as a singer of the human soul in its contrary states of degradation and exaltation. It’s worth listening to him." - The Irish Times

To Air the Soul, Throw All the Windows Wide

Mary Dorcey

New and Selected Poems by critically acclaimed Irish poet Mary Dorcey.

The Times Great Irish Lives

Charles Lysaght

A rich history of Ireland's cultural, social and political landscape, with more than 100 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. This book features the major Irish figures of influence from the last 200 years, from Daniel O’Connell to Ian Paisley, and this updated second edition builds includes some of Ireland’s most notable characters from the modern era, such as Maeve Binchy, Conor Cruise O’Brien and Terry Wogan.

Eavan Boland: Inside History

Siobhan Campbell and Nessa O'Mahony (eds)

A new volume of essays and poems in response to the work of the internationally-renowned Irish poet, Eavan Boland. It is a reappraisal of Boland’s influence as a poet and critic in the 21st century and the first major commissioned collection of essays to be published on Boland.

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