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The Strasbourg CaseMichael Lillis writes : In the summer of 1972 I was transferred from the Irish embassy in Franco’s Madrid, where I had served as a Third...
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Father’s DayDermot Hodson writes : Of the dark past A child is born; With joy and grief My heart is torn. Written on the occasions of his...
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A Visit to the DeathhouseEnda O’Doherty writes : Zadie Smith, in a NYRB review back in 2008 of a biographical essay on Franz Kafka by Louis Begley, made the to...
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Exporting the PoorSean Byrne writes: As one of the Commissioners on Mother and Baby Homes, Professor Mary Daly, is a very distinguished historian, it is...
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Find the AuthorHiram Morgan writes: Manuscripts are the principal key to studying the history of England’s conquest and colonisation of Ireland in the sixteenth...
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Painting LightCiarán O’Rourke writes : ‘Yours is the art that conveys / what the world is made of.’ So Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin writes in ‘Instructions to an...
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John Barth: 1930-2024Kevin Power writes : It was John Barth’s achievement to become a significant figure without ever becoming a major, or even really a popular...
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Entering the WhirlpoolDavid Barnes writes: Succession ’s Frank Vernon likes ‘to recite Prufrock internally while we check we’re GAAP-compliant’ (Season Two, Episode...
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The Grafton WonderlandEoin O’Brien writes : Dublin’s Graftonia: A Very Literary Neighbourhood is the latest in a series of books by Brendan Lynch on the literary...
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The Irish JewMaurice Earls writes : The Irish Jew , a comedy by John MacDonagh, had numerous successful runs in Dublin in the early 1920s. It was extremely...
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From liberalism to neo-liberalismJohn Fanning writes : Twenty years ago Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times , published the bestselling How...
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The Poet Says NoEve Patten writes : On December 10 th , 1923, the poet WB Yeats addressed those gathered for the Nobel Prize ceremony banquet at the Grand Hotel...
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From Page to StageEnda O’Doherty writes : John Fleming has contributed pieces to the Dublin Review of Books over a good number of years: essays, book reviews,...
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The Dark Side – 50 Years OnMartin Tyrrell writes : Half a century has passed since Pink Floyd released their game-changing album The Dark Side of the Moon . I first caught...
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Dunsany’s Careless AbundanceRobin Wilkinson writes : Whenever I came over from London to visit my cousins in Co Meath, long before the M3 cut a swathe through the Boyne...
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As the Path ContinuesDr Struan Kennedy writes : This year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement which formally ended thirty...
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Response to Maurice EarlsJohn Fanning writes : Maurice Earls’s thought-provoking essay ‘The State Of Us’ (February drb ) is a valuable contribution to a much-needed...
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The Wars on PalestineOn May 22nd last, Professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University gave a talk at Maynooth University (and at Trinity College the next day)...
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An Unconsummated AffairJames Williams writes : The novelist Evelyn Waugh was perhaps the best known of the fugitives seeking shelter in Ireland from the socialist storm...
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Victoria Amelina 1986-2023Lia Mills writes : Victoria Amelina had a way of walking straight into your heart and making herself at home there. She had no time to waste; she...
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How to DisappearKatrina Goldstone writes , In January 1987, Stella Jackson, who wrote under the pen name, Stella Fitzthomas Hagan, put a halt to her proposed...
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Emigrants and ÉmigrésJames Williams writes : In the years after World War Two, hundreds of thousands of Irish people migrated to Britain. In all, almost one in six of...
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Forgetting to RememberSean Byrne writes : In recent commemorations of the Civil War, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin have all accepted that atrocities were...
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The Songs RemainRobin Wilkinson writes : When shooting In Bruges in 2008 the director did daily battle with the studio on matters from the storyboard to the...
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Ronald Blythe: 1922-2023Enda O’Doherty writes : Ronald Blythe, who died on January 14 th aged one hundred, was best known for Akenfield , his study, published in 1969,...
