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Issue Number 5, Spring 2008
Lost in the Jungle
Angela Long:
Peter Carey’s Bush OdysseyA Long March
Brendan O’Leary:
Paul Bew and Ireland’s NationsHistory Is To Blame
Maurice Earls:
The Life and Times of Samuel PepysForbidden Memories
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic:
Stalin’s Victims TestifyOut of the Ashes
Franz Walter:
What Path for Social Democracy?Everything Flows
Patrick Lynch:
The Architecture of O’Donnell and TuomeySilent Symphony
Barra Ó Seaghdha:
Ireland’s Missing Classical TraditionSwallowed by the Shopping Centre
James Moran:
Catherine O’Flynn’s Birmingham VisionAncestral Vices
Rosita Sweetman:
War, Plunder and the Anglo-IrishBattling the Beast of Brussels
Tony Brown:
The Methods of Irish EuroscepticismGive a Thing and Take it Back
Éilís ní Dhuibhne:
Claire Keegan’s Short StoriesIssue Number 4, Winter 2007-08
Not All Roses
Richard Tillinghast:
O'Driscoll's Poetic LanguageLifting the Boats
Philip O’Connor:
Partnership and Progress in 'Tiger' IrelandThe Modernist Volcano
Stephen Wilson:
The Young Ezra PoundCruelty, Grievance, Denial
William Kenefick:
The Scottish Clearances DebateThe First Egoist
Enda O’Doherty:
The Essays of Michel de MontaigneVoices of the Dispossessed
Brian Earls:
Excavating Ireland's Oral HistoryEnglish Eggheads
John-Paul McCarthy:
John Bull's Brainy BrothersA Murky Business
John Gibney:
A Seventeenth Century ScandalParsing Irish Paralysis
Terence Killeen:
Postcolonial RereadingsFencing Ireland's Poets
John Minahane:
Gaelic Poetry in its ContextNorthern Miniaturist
Brian Lynch:
Gösta Agren: A Major European VoiceIssue Number 3 Autumn 2007
Cold Warrior
Judith Devlin:
Stalin's Ruthless Fight for SurvivalThose Crazy Turks
Nicholas Birch:
History of a Hero NationNorth West Passage
John McAuliffe:
Louis MacNeice's PoetrySmall State, Big World
John Bradley:
Reflections on Irish Economic DevelopmentThe Best Circles
Donncha Ó Muirithe:
Cycling and Society in Victorian IrelandTo Aran or Isfahan
Paul O'Brien:
Cees Nooteboom: A Nomadic LifeThe King of Lost Causes
Peter Brooke:
British Labour's Grand Old ManA Queer Sort
Kristin Anderson:
The Strange Semi-Obscurity of James HanleyDestroyed by Art
Susan Lanigan:
Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia WevillToo Much Too Soon
Angela Long
Fictionalising 9/11Praise for the Microphone
Evelyn Conlon:
Interpreting Irish Women WritersArticles from Issue Number 2 Summer 2007 :
Just Like That
Barra Ó Seaghdha:
Paul Muldoon: the Critic as MagicianReason and Passion
John-Paul McCarthy:
Modern America's Most Influential JuristCitizens of the Republic
Manus O'Riordan:
Jews in Independent IrelandThat Sweet Ironic Smile
Belinda McKeon:
Milan Kundera on the NovelBridges From The Past
Maurice Earls:
Bombing the GermansRubbing Along
James Ryan:
John Maher's New Historical NovelMapping the Conquest
Pádraig Lenihan:
Early Modern Irish CartographersBrave New Words
Peter Mackay:
Scottish Gaelic PoetryThe Child That I Am
Ana Paula Arnaut:
José Saramago's Memories of YouthKindly, Modest and Loveable
Michael D Langan:
The English Look at the EnglishArticles from Issue Number 1 Spring 2007 :
Thoughts from the Top Table
Stephen Wilson:
The Life of Gore VidalSucked into the Tube
Tom Inglis:
Sex, TV and the Collapse of PietyFocus on Poland
Wiktor Osiatynski:
The Landscape after the TransitionFocus on Poland II
Interview with Ryszard Kapuściński, 1932-2007
Faith and Physics
Peter Brooke:
Dawkins's God ConfusionAn All-Seeing Eye
Paddy Gillan:
The Paintings of Camille SouterA Moralist in the Newsroom
Enda Ó Doherty:
Camus as JournalistStill Hanging On
Angela Long:
Britain and its RoyalsOral Culture and Popular Autonomy
Brian Earls:
William Carleton and Ireland's Victorian ImproversMeet the Neighbours