The Book in the World
Should ‘Ulysses’ be feted as a great novel, or a great something else?
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The City and the Book
The city centred: the importance of the culture of Dublin in ‘Ulysses’
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Where To Next?
Joe Cleary explores world literature and Irish literature’s place in it
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Down on the Farm
Farming, land and land hunger as a theme in modern Irish literature
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Wild Child
Early to late: questions about the conventional Jane Austen timeline
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Now This Is The Truth
A satire on the political PR industry reminiscent of Waugh’s ‘Scoop’
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The Destruction Principle
A working class striver and skiver in one, at home with the underdog
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Whatever You Say
No news: letters from John McGahern, who didn’t like writing letters
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Cain’s World
A protest against ‘the developer’ and paean to the wildness within
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Coasting
A Reader from ‘Archipelago’, a review celebrating wild Britain and Ireland
