Breaking The Union

    Pádraig Yeates
    A collection of essays about the 1913 Dublin Lockout impresses across a wide range of fields.
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    A Tearless People

    Pádraig Murphy
    The year is 1937 and the place Moscow, one of the key settings in European history and a fault line in the history of civilisation.
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    And Another Thing

    Enda O’Doherty
    The most recent translation of WG Sebald’s work offers the expected pleasure of his engaging prose style and an introduction to the world of some intriguing German writers.
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    A Millionaire of Words

    Morten Høi Jensen
    Joyce’s funny, moving and infuriating masterpiece should send us, not into the cold and sterile embrace of the examination room, but out again into the warm and throbbing world.
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    Sacred Egoist

    Michael McDonald
    The Italian critic and editor Roberto Calasso enjoys a considerable reputation among the literary-critical elite, but how much substance or originality is there in his anti-rational musings?
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    Not telling

    Maureen O’Connor
    Edna O’Brien’s memoir refuses to satisfy our curiosity or submit to the demands for interpretation. She has fought others’ desire for control from childhood, and in her eighties is still fighting.
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    A Moralist in the Newsroom

    Enda O’Doherty
    As well as being a novelist and philosopher, Albert Camus was, at various times of his life, a journalist, working as reporter, editor and columnist. It was a profession about which he held very strong views.
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    A Jig in the Poorhouse

    Breandán Mac Suibhne
    A quarter of a century ago it was stated that no serious academic historian takes seriously any more the claim of genocide in relation to Britain’s role in the Famine. It may be time to debate that assertion again.
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    The Big D

    Seamus O’Mahony
    Christopher Hitchens was famously sceptical of the claims of religious thinkers, yet faced with dying he exhibited a defiant faith in the capacities of medical science to block the course of nature, a faith not sustained by much evidence.
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    Muddling into War

    John Swift
    A major new study charts the origins of the First World War, widely seen by modern historians as the calamity from which all other twentieth century calamities sprang.
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