Pádraig Lenihan’s outstanding new book includes events and figures seared into Ireland’s collective historical and cultural ...
This book is, for want of better phrasing, a bit too well-written. There’s virtually nothing to be thought or said about it ...
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Colm Tóibín on the writer Mary Lavin: She removed the props by which we might read her women easily
The great short-story writer’s female protagonists often do the opposite of what they intend. Being unmoored by loss affects their every thought ...
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Local history: Rockite rebellion of 1820s, a Jekyll-and-Hyde press baron and the ‘gregarious grocer’
Landlords and Middlemen in Eighteenth-century Duhallow by John O’Regan discusses the so-called Rockite rebellion (1820-24). This was a large-scale insurrection of up to 2,000 rebels threatening the ...
The hands of the clock go patiently over the story again from the top. Consider all the years you’ve spent in waiting rooms like this with clocks for company, in libraries and h ...
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