Gaelic Warriors
An authoritative, accessible study of the evolution and persistent appeal of the Fianna, the warrior-band that included Fionn mac Cumhaill and his son, Oisín.
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Joyce and Parnell
A large and ambitious attempt to shed new light on Joyce’s work fails to convince.
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A Jewish Patriot
An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce’s Dublin, and Ulysses: The Life and Times of Albert L. Altman, by Neil R Davison, University Press of Florida, 173 pp, $85, ISBN: 978-0813069555 Albert Altman (1853-1903) was born in what he called ‘Prussian Poland’ (probably the Duchy of Posen, which had a large Jewish population) and came to Ireland most…
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The World’s Doubleness
From the natural world to the grit and banality of everyday life
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Against Mystique
National character: English decorum versus dreamy Celtic fecklessness
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Witness to Revival
Mary Colum’s memoir of Ireland, literary revival and modernism
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Comings and Goings
The ‘isolated and outlandish’ domain of the doomed Big House gentry
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A Righteous Flame
A gift for evoking simple things: light, heat, water, air; food and drink
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Design and Build
Scenes of fleeting beauty captured in overlooked and unglamorous contexts
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Boarding School Odyssey
Poems of youth recollected. informed by humour yet speaking of heartbreak
