Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Poetry and Fishing
Retracing the journeys of the enthusiastic angler Ted Hughes
Spreading Civilisation
Lecky, liberalism and Britain’s role as world leader
Otters and Orioles
A well-read eye observes nature over the passing years
Movements in the Deep
A Japanese mystery that evokes the slippery nature of memory
The Kilmichael Ambush
Re-examining the controversial events of the war in Co Cork
The English School
A defence of the centrality of history to international relations
A Salutary Lesson
Russia’s vicious 19th century wars of conquest in Asia
A State of Chassis
How neoliberalism hollows out liberalism and democracy
Luminous Spaces
Seamus Deane’s contribution to the formulation of a new republicanism
Usuns, Themuns, Others
The complex lessons of the Northern Ireland population census
The Primacy of Politics
The thinkers and thought that underlay the War of Independence
A Classical Education
Enda O’Doherty writes: “Sorry,” my friend said. “I didn’t get that.” “Get what?” “What you said just now. Something in Latin I think … Not all of us, you know, had the benefit of a classical education.” I can no longer remember what the offending tag or reference was but I doubt if it…