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Glenn Patterson’s latest novel delves into the history of his native Belfast, before the trendy Titanic Quarter, before even …


Quiet power of the humane voice

LITERARY CRITICISM: The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism , By Terence Brown, Cambridge University Press, 281pp


Avant-garde in a Free State

IRISH STUDIES : Modernism, Ireland and Civil War, by Nicholas Allen, Cambridge University Press, 225pp, £50



How we got from Moore to Joyce

IRISH STUDIES: THIS IMMENSELY valuable study offers an innovative, productive, and genuinely exciting investigation of the anxieties…


Superman of the modern stage

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Sense and separatism

Irish Studies: 'Ireland may be a separatist issue", observes David Pierce in his introduction, "but it is almost impossible …


The views of a public intellectual

Literary Criticism: The publication of The Irish Writer and the World, a collection of essays that first appeared between 1979…



Monument to a critic

Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature by Augustine Martin, ed. Anthony Roche, UCD Press, 259pp, £26.95/£16.95




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