Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Belonging
The changing face of Ireland and the forces who are combating change
A Great Worker
The work which, 100 years ago, gave us the concept of the robot
The Bloody Crown
The factors driving violence in Co Kerry during the revolutionary period
Finding a Space
Women and writing in Ireland’s breakthrough feminist ‘second wave’
Wrongfooted by History
An up-close look at Northern Ireland’s Protestant community
Rounding up the Strays
A new collection of the work of a doyenne of the literary review
One More to Go
Ireland’s civil war and its impact on the patterns of 20th century politics
A Poet’s Dublin
A little blousy and rough around the edges but still a city of great beauty
Barefoot Kings?
Sifting the evidence on civilisation in Gaelic Ulster
Boss Cupid
The warm, human despatches of a gay poet from Reagan’s America
A Vanished Bohemia
A compelling memoir of Aidan Higgins and a mode of literary life now gone
Haunted Houses
Elizabeth Bowen’s love letters recall her first extramarital affair