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ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here. BLOG POSTS - BOOK NEWS, POSTS AND REVIEWS - DUBLIN REVIEW Easter Rising 1916 – The Trials. After the Rebellion, came the trials. 3,226 men and women were rounded up and brought to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where they were screened for trial, deportation or release. Nearly 2,000 men and women were deported and interned. 160 prisoners were tried by Courts Martial. Most trials lasted about 20 ARCHIVE - BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS - DUBLIN Dublin Review of Books Archive. Our aim is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Search our ReviewsArchive here.
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Rights and Wrongs. On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, £18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for political books it unleashed. His election caused many tocast around in
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Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.THE ANTI-FREUD
The Anti-Freud. Seamus O’Mahony April 2021. Donate. In February 1939, a small, stooped man called to No 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead. He was Wilfred Trotter, a surgeon who had been asked by his brother-in-law, the psychoanalyst Dr Ernest Jones, to give a second opinion on a cancer case. The patient was Sigmund Freud, who overseveral
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Sacred Monster. Francis Bacon: Revelations, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, William Collins, 880 pp, £30, ISBN: 978-0007298419. Biographies are tricky things ‑ and of course it’s extreme cheek on my part since everyone before me has heaped praise on this gargantuan work on the life and art of Francis Bacon by husband andwife duo Mark
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More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacity ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even peoplefrom
ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here. BLOG POSTS - BOOK NEWS, POSTS AND REVIEWS - DUBLIN REVIEW Easter Rising 1916 – The Trials. After the Rebellion, came the trials. 3,226 men and women were rounded up and brought to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where they were screened for trial, deportation or release. Nearly 2,000 men and women were deported and interned. 160 prisoners were tried by Courts Martial. Most trials lasted about 20 ARCHIVE - BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS - DUBLIN Dublin Review of Books Archive. Our aim is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Search our ReviewsArchive here.
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Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aRIGHTS AND WRONGS
Rights and Wrongs. On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, £18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for political books it unleashed. His election caused many tocast around in
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Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.THE ANTI-FREUD
The Anti-Freud. Seamus O’Mahony April 2021. Donate. In February 1939, a small, stooped man called to No 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead. He was Wilfred Trotter, a surgeon who had been asked by his brother-in-law, the psychoanalyst Dr Ernest Jones, to give a second opinion on a cancer case. The patient was Sigmund Freud, who overseveral
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Sacred Monster. Francis Bacon: Revelations, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, William Collins, 880 pp, £30, ISBN: 978-0007298419. Biographies are tricky things ‑ and of course it’s extreme cheek on my part since everyone before me has heaped praise on this gargantuan work on the life and art of Francis Bacon by husband andwife duo Mark
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More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacityLOGIN OR REGISTER
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Register Register with the drb. Registering while donating allows you to have a dashboard for your drb profile. Here you can keep tabs on the previous donations you have made – remember any donation(s) of €100 of more will give you permanent free access to the drb archive. A CLASSICAL EDUCATION II A Classical Education II. May 2021. Donate. Enda O’Doherty writes: Many of us may be aware of the rather disparaging remark Shakespeare’s friend and rival Ben Jonson – a highly educated scholar himself ‑ made on the extent of the Bard’s classical knowledge: “And though thou hadst small Latine, and less Greeke ”.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aAFTER THE DELUGE
People’s inability during the pandemic to behave morally and refrain from actions that threaten the common good has meant that in protecting the public states will have to rely more on law than persuasion. Legal enforcement is coming down the road ‑ as surely as it did with drink-driving.WARRIOR ARTIST
Warrior Artist. Frank Freeman March 2021. Donate. Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him, by Mariella Guzzoni, Thames & Hudson, 232 pp, £19.95, ISBN: 978-0500094129. Anyone who dips into Van Gogh’s letters will be struck by how much and how widely he read. He devoured and used books up as he did the people around himHISTORY ON THE WING
History on the Wing. The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church, and the End of a Special Relationship, by Derek Scally, Sandycove, 336 pp, £16.99, ISBN: 978-1844885268. Not long after I joined The Irish Times in 1963, I was talking to the then editor, Douglas Gageby, and ‑ greatly daring ‑ asked him how he woulddefine a
WALKING THE WILD SIDE Walking the Wild Side. Wild Nephin, by Seán Lysaght, Stonechat Editions, 281 pp, €19.99, ISBN: 978-0956891846. Like many people, Seán Lysaght regarded Erris and northwest Mayo as a region of forbidding emptiness, frightening in its loneliness according to Robert Lloyd Praeger in 1937. Lysaght’s more recent explorationstook place in
THE SEAMUS HEANEY EXPERIENCE The Seamus Heaney Experience. On Seamus Heaney, by RF Foster, Princeton University Press (Writers on Writers series), 228 pp, 14.99, ISBN: 978-0691174372 Karl Miller always disclaimed credit for being the first person – first in the UK anyway – to spot the merit in Seamus Heaney’s early work. Others had got there beforehim, he said.
ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even peoplefrom
ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here. BLOG POSTS - BOOK NEWS, POSTS AND REVIEWS - DUBLIN REVIEW Easter Rising 1916 – The Trials. After the Rebellion, came the trials. 3,226 men and women were rounded up and brought to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where they were screened for trial, deportation or release. Nearly 2,000 men and women were deported and interned. 160 prisoners were tried by Courts Martial. Most trials lasted about 20 ARCHIVE - BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS - DUBLIN Dublin Review of Books Archive. Our aim is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Search our ReviewsArchive here.
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Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aRIGHTS AND WRONGS
Rights and Wrongs. On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, £18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for political books it unleashed. His election caused many tocast around in
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Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.THE ANTI-FREUD
The Anti-Freud. Seamus O’Mahony April 2021. Donate. In February 1939, a small, stooped man called to No 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead. He was Wilfred Trotter, a surgeon who had been asked by his brother-in-law, the psychoanalyst Dr Ernest Jones, to give a second opinion on a cancer case. The patient was Sigmund Freud, who overseveral
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Sacred Monster. Francis Bacon: Revelations, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, William Collins, 880 pp, £30, ISBN: 978-0007298419. Biographies are tricky things ‑ and of course it’s extreme cheek on my part since everyone before me has heaped praise on this gargantuan work on the life and art of Francis Bacon by husband andwife duo Mark
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More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacity ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even peoplefrom
ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here. BLOG POSTS - BOOK NEWS, POSTS AND REVIEWS - DUBLIN REVIEW Easter Rising 1916 – The Trials. After the Rebellion, came the trials. 3,226 men and women were rounded up and brought to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where they were screened for trial, deportation or release. Nearly 2,000 men and women were deported and interned. 160 prisoners were tried by Courts Martial. Most trials lasted about 20 ARCHIVE - BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS - DUBLIN Dublin Review of Books Archive. Our aim is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Search our ReviewsArchive here.
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Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aRIGHTS AND WRONGS
Rights and Wrongs. On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, £18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for political books it unleashed. His election caused many tocast around in
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Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.THE ANTI-FREUD
The Anti-Freud. Seamus O’Mahony April 2021. Donate. In February 1939, a small, stooped man called to No 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead. He was Wilfred Trotter, a surgeon who had been asked by his brother-in-law, the psychoanalyst Dr Ernest Jones, to give a second opinion on a cancer case. The patient was Sigmund Freud, who overseveral
SACRED MONSTER
Sacred Monster. Francis Bacon: Revelations, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, William Collins, 880 pp, £30, ISBN: 978-0007298419. Biographies are tricky things ‑ and of course it’s extreme cheek on my part since everyone before me has heaped praise on this gargantuan work on the life and art of Francis Bacon by husband andwife duo Mark
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More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacityLOGIN OR REGISTER
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Register Register with the drb. Registering while donating allows you to have a dashboard for your drb profile. Here you can keep tabs on the previous donations you have made – remember any donation(s) of €100 of more will give you permanent free access to the drb archive. A CLASSICAL EDUCATION II A Classical Education II. May 2021. Donate. Enda O’Doherty writes: Many of us may be aware of the rather disparaging remark Shakespeare’s friend and rival Ben Jonson – a highly educated scholar himself ‑ made on the extent of the Bard’s classical knowledge: “And though thou hadst small Latine, and less Greeke ”.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aAFTER THE DELUGE
People’s inability during the pandemic to behave morally and refrain from actions that threaten the common good has meant that in protecting the public states will have to rely more on law than persuasion. Legal enforcement is coming down the road ‑ as surely as it did with drink-driving.WARRIOR ARTIST
Warrior Artist. Frank Freeman March 2021. Donate. Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him, by Mariella Guzzoni, Thames & Hudson, 232 pp, £19.95, ISBN: 978-0500094129. Anyone who dips into Van Gogh’s letters will be struck by how much and how widely he read. He devoured and used books up as he did the people around himHISTORY ON THE WING
History on the Wing. The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church, and the End of a Special Relationship, by Derek Scally, Sandycove, 336 pp, £16.99, ISBN: 978-1844885268. Not long after I joined The Irish Times in 1963, I was talking to the then editor, Douglas Gageby, and ‑ greatly daring ‑ asked him how he woulddefine a
WALKING THE WILD SIDE Walking the Wild Side. Wild Nephin, by Seán Lysaght, Stonechat Editions, 281 pp, €19.99, ISBN: 978-0956891846. Like many people, Seán Lysaght regarded Erris and northwest Mayo as a region of forbidding emptiness, frightening in its loneliness according to Robert Lloyd Praeger in 1937. Lysaght’s more recent explorationstook place in
THE SEAMUS HEANEY EXPERIENCE The Seamus Heaney Experience. On Seamus Heaney, by RF Foster, Princeton University Press (Writers on Writers series), 228 pp, 14.99, ISBN: 978-0691174372 Karl Miller always disclaimed credit for being the first person – first in the UK anyway – to spot the merit in Seamus Heaney’s early work. Others had got there beforehim, he said.
ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even peoplefrom
BLOG POSTS - BOOK NEWS, POSTS AND REVIEWS - DUBLIN REVIEW Easter Rising 1916 – The Trials. After the Rebellion, came the trials. 3,226 men and women were rounded up and brought to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where they were screened for trial, deportation or release. Nearly 2,000 men and women were deported and interned. 160 prisoners were tried by Courts Martial. Most trials lasted about 20RIGHTS AND WRONGS
On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, £18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for political books itunleashed.
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Provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles, mischievous and playful in their portrayal of feckless folk and outcasts, flirts and weasels, gasbags and scallywags. ARCHIVE - BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS - DUBLIN Dublin Review of Books Archive. Our aim is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Search our ReviewsArchive here.
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Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.SACRED MONSTER
Sacred Monster. Francis Bacon: Revelations, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, William Collins, 880 pp, £30, ISBN: 978-0007298419. Biographies are tricky things ‑ and of course it’s extreme cheek on my part since everyone before me has heaped praise on this gargantuan work on the life and art of Francis Bacon by husband andwife duo Mark
THE GREEN BOOK
EXTRACT. Cannibalism is a fearful theme, even when deployed as metaphor. Over three decades before “A Modest Proposal”, it reared uglily and for real in Vertue Rewarded; or The Irish Princess, published under anonymous ascription in 1693. A shortish tale of sorely-sought and at last rewarded love, this—in its outer parts—homely fable concerns a Williamite general-prince who woos aESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
In 1991, Reg Hindley published his book The Death of the Irish Language: A Qualified Obituary.Hindley’s analysis was based on three very simple observations. First, that the number of native speakers of the language (that is, people for whom Irish is learned as a first language or is learned simultaneously with English as a first language) was, by 1991, very low.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacity ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even peoplefrom
BLOG POSTS - BOOK NEWS, POSTS AND REVIEWS - DUBLIN REVIEW Easter Rising 1916 – The Trials. After the Rebellion, came the trials. 3,226 men and women were rounded up and brought to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where they were screened for trial, deportation or release. Nearly 2,000 men and women were deported and interned. 160 prisoners were tried by Courts Martial. Most trials lasted about 20RIGHTS AND WRONGS
On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, £18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for political books itunleashed.
TONGULISH - DRB
Provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles, mischievous and playful in their portrayal of feckless folk and outcasts, flirts and weasels, gasbags and scallywags. ARCHIVE - BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS - DUBLIN Dublin Review of Books Archive. Our aim is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Search our ReviewsArchive here.
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Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.SACRED MONSTER
Sacred Monster. Francis Bacon: Revelations, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, William Collins, 880 pp, £30, ISBN: 978-0007298419. Biographies are tricky things ‑ and of course it’s extreme cheek on my part since everyone before me has heaped praise on this gargantuan work on the life and art of Francis Bacon by husband andwife duo Mark
THE GREEN BOOK
EXTRACT. Cannibalism is a fearful theme, even when deployed as metaphor. Over three decades before “A Modest Proposal”, it reared uglily and for real in Vertue Rewarded; or The Irish Princess, published under anonymous ascription in 1693. A shortish tale of sorely-sought and at last rewarded love, this—in its outer parts—homely fable concerns a Williamite general-prince who woos aESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
In 1991, Reg Hindley published his book The Death of the Irish Language: A Qualified Obituary.Hindley’s analysis was based on three very simple observations. First, that the number of native speakers of the language (that is, people for whom Irish is learned as a first language or is learned simultaneously with English as a first language) was, by 1991, very low.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacityLOGIN OR REGISTER
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The Reawakening. Slowly but surely – and barring sudden reverses in the progress we have made – Ireland will be returning to social and cultural life this month and next. From May 10 th you can visit a bookshop and pick up a book you have previously ordered online (click and collect). From the following week you can actually visit the shopESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
A master of first person narrative, he creates observers who are lyrical and philosophical yet confused; situated outside the principal action but profoundly affected by it; urged on by a desire for engagement with life but consistently puzzled by and fearful of the world’s random give and take. The lilt and tone and hesitancy ofthese voices
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According to John. Bryan Fanning May 2021. Donate. Since the early 1990s, when he first became prominent as a public intellectual, John Waters has journeyed from a conservatism that was once the Irish mainstream into alliances with unambiguously far-right figures. He has written extensively about this journey in several books, beginningwith
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Provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles, mischievous and playful in their portrayal of feckless folk and outcasts, flirts and weasels, gasbags and scallywags. BIG QUESTIONS IN IRISH HISTORY Reading an issue of the drb is like splashing happily in a pool of ideas. Maurice Earls’s dash across several centuries of Irish history, “No Myth No Nation”, is an exhilarating exploration. At moments, it might seem like a ballon d’essai but the essay is written with serious intent. One could imagine aTAKING PAINS
Enda O’Doherty writes: The printer Robert Estienne (1460 or 1470-1520), whose shop was on the rue de l’école de Droit in Paris, was a man who believed in taking pains. According to the distinguished scholar of early modern publishing Anthony Grafton, Estienne, who was printer-bookseller to the University of Paris, employed ten “correctors” and HERESY AND THE MAKING OF EUROPEAN CULTURE Scholars and analysts looking for the roots of the extraordinary creativity and innovation found in Europe from the Middle Ages have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The chapters collected here examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent and the attempts to police or eradicate it. BOARDING SCHOOL ODYSSEY The Examined Life, by James Harpur, Two Rivers Press, 95 pp, £9.95, ISBN: 9781909747876. In his foreword to James Harpur’s new collection of poetry, Stephen Fry observes that for many readers, memories of childhood, especially those of private elitist education, should be “firmly off limits”. THE INFLECTION POINT An argument for the marshalling of religious thought in worlddiplomacy
ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even people from quite humble backgrounds to go on to university. ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here.RIGHTS AND WRONGS
1 day ago · On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, 18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for politicalbooks it unleashed.
ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Books referred to in this essay: Raymond Murray, The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge, Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, 2005, ISBN: 0951149024; Gordon Brand, ed. William Carleton the Authentic Voice, Colin Smythe, 2006, ISBN: 0861404629; Helen O’Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement, Oxford, 2006, 9780199286461; PeggyO’Brien
ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
In 1991, Reg Hindley published his book The Death of the Irish Language: A Qualified Obituary.Hindley’s analysis was based on three very simple observations. First, that the number of native speakers of the language (that is, people for whom Irish is learned as a first language or is learned simultaneously with English as a first language) was, by 1991, very low.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacitySONS AND MOTHERS
Sons and Mothers. Writers and Their Mothers, Dale Salwak (ed), Palgrave Macmillan, 258 pp, ISBN: 978-3319683478 It is not easy being the mother of a writer: naturally, the writer will always have the last word. Literary biographers tend to pay writers’ mothers scantattention, or
VANISHING DUBLIN
Vanishing Dublin. by drb admin | Apr 18, 2019. Maurice Earls writes: Six hundred copies of Vanishing Dublin by Flora Mitchell were published in 1966 by Allen Figgis. The book offers short descriptions of numerous streets and lanes in Dublin, each illustrated with one of the author’s watercolours. The book, which has never been reprinted ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even people from quite humble backgrounds to go on to university. ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here.RIGHTS AND WRONGS
1 day ago · On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, 18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for politicalbooks it unleashed.
ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Books referred to in this essay: Raymond Murray, The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge, Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, 2005, ISBN: 0951149024; Gordon Brand, ed. William Carleton the Authentic Voice, Colin Smythe, 2006, ISBN: 0861404629; Helen O’Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement, Oxford, 2006, 9780199286461; PeggyO’Brien
ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
In 1991, Reg Hindley published his book The Death of the Irish Language: A Qualified Obituary.Hindley’s analysis was based on three very simple observations. First, that the number of native speakers of the language (that is, people for whom Irish is learned as a first language or is learned simultaneously with English as a first language) was, by 1991, very low.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacitySONS AND MOTHERS
Sons and Mothers. Writers and Their Mothers, Dale Salwak (ed), Palgrave Macmillan, 258 pp, ISBN: 978-3319683478 It is not easy being the mother of a writer: naturally, the writer will always have the last word. Literary biographers tend to pay writers’ mothers scantattention, or
VANISHING DUBLIN
Vanishing Dublin. by drb admin | Apr 18, 2019. Maurice Earls writes: Six hundred copies of Vanishing Dublin by Flora Mitchell were published in 1966 by Allen Figgis. The book offers short descriptions of numerous streets and lanes in Dublin, each illustrated with one of the author’s watercolours. The book, which has never been reprinted ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here. ARCHIVE - BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS - DUBLIN Dublin Review of Books Archive. Our aim is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Search our ReviewsArchive here.
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The twenty-first century will be the century of Africa.The continent which was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor and forgotten is now bustling, urban, monotheist and growing. The West has missed the turnaround of a continent that will no longer waitSPQR - DRB
Mary Beard's history of Ancient Rome is a new look at Roman history exploring not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves andTAKING PAINS
Enda O’Doherty writes: The printer Robert Estienne (1460 or 1470-1520), whose shop was on the rue de l’école de Droit in Paris, was a man who believed in taking pains. According to the distinguished scholar of early modern publishing Anthony Grafton, Estienne, who was printer-bookseller to the University of Paris, employed ten “correctors” and VOICES FROM THE FRONT Oral historian Peter Hart brings together accounts from across the conflict of the Great War, from soldiers, sailors and airmen, from officers and privates alike.FIGHTING FASCISM
This book examines the analyses of fascism put forward by British socialists and communists, explains the anti-fascist strategies theyproposed, and
HERESY AND THE MAKING OF EUROPEAN CULTURE Scholars and analysts looking for the roots of the extraordinary creativity and innovation found in Europe from the Middle Ages have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The chapters collected here examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent and the attempts to police or eradicate it.LOST BETWEEN
An anthology of stories from established and emerging writers from both Ireland and Italy, touching on the sense of displacement that stems from migration, detachment and ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even people from quite humble backgrounds to go on to university. ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here.RIGHTS AND WRONGS
1 day ago · On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, 18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for politicalbooks it unleashed.
ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Books referred to in this essay: Raymond Murray, The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge, Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, 2005, ISBN: 0951149024; Gordon Brand, ed. William Carleton the Authentic Voice, Colin Smythe, 2006, ISBN: 0861404629; Helen O’Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement, Oxford, 2006, 9780199286461; PeggyO’Brien
ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
In 1991, Reg Hindley published his book The Death of the Irish Language: A Qualified Obituary.Hindley’s analysis was based on three very simple observations. First, that the number of native speakers of the language (that is, people for whom Irish is learned as a first language or is learned simultaneously with English as a first language) was, by 1991, very low.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacitySONS AND MOTHERS
Sons and Mothers. Writers and Their Mothers, Dale Salwak (ed), Palgrave Macmillan, 258 pp, ISBN: 978-3319683478 It is not easy being the mother of a writer: naturally, the writer will always have the last word. Literary biographers tend to pay writers’ mothers scantattention, or
VANISHING DUBLIN
Vanishing Dublin. by drb admin | Apr 18, 2019. Maurice Earls writes: Six hundred copies of Vanishing Dublin by Flora Mitchell were published in 1966 by Allen Figgis. The book offers short descriptions of numerous streets and lanes in Dublin, each illustrated with one of the author’s watercolours. The book, which has never been reprinted ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS & BOOK REVIEWS LiteratureLia Mills /Éilís Ní DhuibhneMay 2021. The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write. If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even people from quite humble backgrounds to go on to university. ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here.RIGHTS AND WRONGS
1 day ago · On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, by Ann Heberlein, transl Alice Menzies, Pushkin Press, 320 pp, 18.99, ISBN: 978-1782276098. One of the stranger consequences of the early days of the Trump era was the voracious appetite for politicalbooks it unleashed.
ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Toasted Heretic. Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 320 pp, €19.95, ISBN: 978-1785372612. The secondary title rather than the primary is usually the best indicator of a book’s content. In this case a vital clue to the author’s view of his career is contained in the formulation “aESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Rory of the Hill. Kerron Ó Luain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora: the Persistence of Tradition, by Kyle Hughes and Donald M MacRaild, Liverpool University Press, 360 pp, €100, ISBN: 978-1786941350. “They say you’re after a ranger who’s taken up with the Ribbonmen?”.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
Books referred to in this essay: Raymond Murray, The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge, Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, 2005, ISBN: 0951149024; Gordon Brand, ed. William Carleton the Authentic Voice, Colin Smythe, 2006, ISBN: 0861404629; Helen O’Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement, Oxford, 2006, 9780199286461; PeggyO’Brien
ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
In 1991, Reg Hindley published his book The Death of the Irish Language: A Qualified Obituary.Hindley’s analysis was based on three very simple observations. First, that the number of native speakers of the language (that is, people for whom Irish is learned as a first language or is learned simultaneously with English as a first language) was, by 1991, very low.ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS
More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacitySONS AND MOTHERS
Sons and Mothers. Writers and Their Mothers, Dale Salwak (ed), Palgrave Macmillan, 258 pp, ISBN: 978-3319683478 It is not easy being the mother of a writer: naturally, the writer will always have the last word. Literary biographers tend to pay writers’ mothers scantattention, or
VANISHING DUBLIN
Vanishing Dublin. by drb admin | Apr 18, 2019. Maurice Earls writes: Six hundred copies of Vanishing Dublin by Flora Mitchell were published in 1966 by Allen Figgis. The book offers short descriptions of numerous streets and lanes in Dublin, each illustrated with one of the author’s watercolours. The book, which has never been reprinted ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS The Dublin Review of Books publishes clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read our latest long-form essays here. ARCHIVE - BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS - DUBLIN Dublin Review of Books Archive. Our aim is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Search our ReviewsArchive here.
PROTEST INC
Protest Inc. tells a disturbingly different story of global activism. As millions of grassroots activists rally against capitalism, activism more broadly is increasingly mirroring business management and echoing calls for market-based solutions.AFRICA'S MOMENT
The twenty-first century will be the century of Africa.The continent which was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor and forgotten is now bustling, urban, monotheist and growing. The West has missed the turnaround of a continent that will no longer waitSPQR - DRB
Mary Beard's history of Ancient Rome is a new look at Roman history exploring not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves andTAKING PAINS
Enda O’Doherty writes: The printer Robert Estienne (1460 or 1470-1520), whose shop was on the rue de l’école de Droit in Paris, was a man who believed in taking pains. According to the distinguished scholar of early modern publishing Anthony Grafton, Estienne, who was printer-bookseller to the University of Paris, employed ten “correctors” and VOICES FROM THE FRONT Oral historian Peter Hart brings together accounts from across the conflict of the Great War, from soldiers, sailors and airmen, from officers and privates alike.FIGHTING FASCISM
This book examines the analyses of fascism put forward by British socialists and communists, explains the anti-fascist strategies theyproposed, and
HERESY AND THE MAKING OF EUROPEAN CULTURE Scholars and analysts looking for the roots of the extraordinary creativity and innovation found in Europe from the Middle Ages have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The chapters collected here examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent and the attempts to police or eradicate it.LOST BETWEEN
An anthology of stories from established and emerging writers from both Ireland and Italy, touching on the sense of displacement that stems from migration, detachment and ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS__
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Society Bryan FanningMay 2021
Pluralist Ireland and the angry politics of John Waters At the rally in Balbriggan John Waters spoke in front of a tricolour and a poster of the 1916 proclamation. The demise of Ireland, he said, was already assured by the 1970s, when we joined the EU. He warned of falling birth rates, made worse by abortion. Many of the immigrant communities, he said, had birth rates two or three times the Irish one. The great replacement was on the way. He criticised Fianna Fáil’s election slogan ‘An Ireland for all’. Who were they referring to? ISIS? ‘There are two words missing. Except Paddy.’Read more
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With the Beatles: a sparkling account of an innocent mania Not everyone liked the Beatles, even in their heyday. Forced together for a 1964 photo shoot with Muhammad Ali - then Cassius Clay - the atmosphere was anything but relaxed, with the boxer referring to them as ‘little sissies’ and them hitting back with ‘stupid wanker’. The Beatles were awestruck by Elvis but he, according to an official memo, later told the FBI he believed the group ‘laid the groundwork for many of the problems we are having with young people by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music’.Read more
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Bryan Fanning May 2021 Pluralist Ireland and the angry politics of John WatersMusic
YOU SHOULD BE GLAD
Maura O’Kiely May 2021 With the Beatles: a sparkling account of an innocent maniaSOCIETY
HISTORY ON THE WING
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ONCE UPON A TIME
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HAIL RURITANIA!
Jim Smyth May 2021
A kingdom’s progress: from Duck Soup to Princess DianaINTERVIEW
THE FLOWERING
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SACRED MONSTER
Rosita Sweetman May 2021 Not for the drawing room: the terrifying art of Francis BaconSOCIETY
HISTORY ON THE WING
Society John HorganMay 2021
Irish Catholics under the skin: a master class in journalism What busy, overstretched, understaffed media organisation today has the resources to extend its investigative focus beyond the primarily middle class issues that interest its readers when editors are demanding copy and directors are demanding profits? The opportunities for what has been described as ‘shoe-leather journalism’, both in Ireland and elsewhere, are visibly shrinking, and this is why it is so gratifying to see them re-emerging ‑ being reinvented almost ‑ in a book which costs little more than a week’s supply of a newspaper and which is a master class in the trade.Read more
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ONCE UPON A TIME
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Marina Warner’s reimagining of a near magical transformation Marina Warner is a specialist in fairy tales, and it is hard not to read a fairy-tale element into the journey of her intrepid young Italian mother to a far-off country where she faced the daunting rituals of English country life. There is also, as in the traditional tale, a transformation to be enacted, as Italian Ilia becomes an impeccable English lady wearing calf-skin gloves and bespoke brogues – ‘sturdier by far than a glass slipper’.Read more
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Ideas Jim Smyth
May 2021
A kingdom’s progress: from Duck Soup to Princess Diana The antediluvian heraldic outfits of the Garter Principal King of Arms and other royal flunkies, which appear patently ridiculous to some, to others signify imperishable ‘tradition’. If, in the run-up to the 2016 referendum, a discerning bookie had cast his mind back to 1997, the death of ‘the people’s princess’ and the scenes of England’s nervous breakdown on the Mall, he would have shortened his odds on a leave vote.Read more
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The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write If you were a young Irish girl with literary ambitions, then the mid-1950s was quite a good time to be born. First there was free education, which enabled even people from quite humble backgrounds to go on to university. Then came feminism, with its impact on Irish society, arts and literature, followed by new laws on gender equality and, most importantly, provision for legal contraception.Read more
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Rosita Sweetman May 2021 Not for the drawing room: the terrifying art of Francis Bacon Old age, as Katherine Hepburn once said, is not for sissies. Bacon did his best. Ill with asthma, high blood pressure, a cancerous kidney, a dodgy liver and a heart kept going with champagne and fistfuls of pills, including amphetamines, he was ‘living on time wrenched from the teeth and claws of death’. ‘The nearer I get to death,’ he said, ‘the stronger the urge to paint.’Read more
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A CLASSICAL EDUCATION II Ideas Enda O’DohertyMay 2021
Enda O’Doherty writes: Many of us may be aware of the rather disparaging remark Shakespeare’s friend and rival Ben Jonson – a highly educated scholar himself ‑ made on the extent of the Bard’s classical knowledge: “And though thou hadst small Latine, and less Greeke …” This was often interpreted to mean that Shakespeare had a scant or scrappy education (Latin having been the indispensable foundation of schooling in the Elizabethan age) and it was probably grist to the mill of those misguided folk who thought the plays could not possibly have been written by a person from such... One episode from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ which has appealed over the centuries to many painters and poets, and which may have a certain topicality, features the tale of Daedalus and Icarus. You probably know the story. Daedalus, a skilled artificer, having done what he came to Crete to do - build a labyrinth - wants to leave. Crete is a lovely island they say, with great scenery and friendly people, but really he would prefer to be somewhere else. But how can he get away, with the strict ban on inessential travel King Minos’s governmenthas imposed?
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SEAMUS DEANE: 1940-2021 Comment Luke GibbonsMay 2021
Luke Gibbons writes: When the organisers of “After Orientalism”, a major conference on the work of Edward Said, asked the great Palestinian writer and critic which world intellectual should be invited to give the keynote, the answer was immediately forthcoming: “Seamus Deane.” Those who were at the conference, at Columbia University in October 1996, will never forget the standing ovation given to Deane’s extraordinary critical survey of Said’s reflections on theory and actuality, delivered ex tempore. Such was his style: when he arrived once to speak on George Eliot at a Great Tradition seminar, only to find that it... While many have written about the gift economy, Seamus Deane practised it, his intellectual generosity knowing no bounds, as if ideas only took on life in the commons of the mind. An Enlightenment figure without parallel in the Irish republic of letters, he embodied the belief, perhaps taken from Burke, that truth never comes to light unless leavened by justice.Read more
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