Irish Literature

Moving from the Familiar

Change, Anne Enright tells us, is chiefly what the short story is about, with something known at the end – or nearly known ‑ that…

Irish Literature

Places Like Home

Poet Gerard Smyth and painter Seán McSweeney have produced a remarkable collaboration of words and images built around the farms, fields and landscapes of Co…

Irish Literature

The Power of Nine

Paula Meehan’s discovery of countercultural influences has long been a strategy of her poetic process, and the idea of divination is the holding pattern for…

Irish Literature

Language in Orbit

The governing thread in a new selected Muldoon is a life lived from his upbringing in the village of Moy on the Tyrone-Armagh border to…