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http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-11-10/Good_Old_Queens.aspx Robert Looby http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-11-10/Good_Old_Queens.aspx 37b5cb70-c48e-4a92-a625-ebc521c139e5 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:35:00 GMT <p style='line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;' class='MsoNormal'> </p> <p style='line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;' class='MsoNormal'><span style='mso-ansi-language: en-ie;'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal;'><span style='mso-ansi-language: en-ie;'>Albert Reynolds – My Autobiography</span></i><span style='mso-ansi-language: en-ie;'>, by Albert Reynolds, Transworld Ireland, 320 pp, £20, ISBN: 978-1848270428<o:p></o:p></span> <p><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal;'><span style='mso-ansi-language: en-ie;'>Bertie Ahern: The ...</span></i></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-11-09/They_Took_The_Blows.aspx Eoin O’Malley http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-11-09/They_Took_The_Blows.aspx 36b4dcd9-91f6-4d9e-b069-55f113b14ad4 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:47:00 GMT 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876ba7fe-cb00-4bc1-8caa-98ae82e59dac Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:45:00 GMT <em>The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008</em>, by Clive James, Picador, 320 pp, £15.99, ISBN: 978-0330457385 <p style='line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;' class='MsoNormal'><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style='line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;' class='MsoNormal'>For twenty ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-10-05/Not_Altogether_Fool.aspx Rachel Andrews http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-10-05/Not_Altogether_Fool.aspx 8e1824dd-a39f-4a61-8a9a-dbf133773413 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:42:00 GMT <p><em>The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels</em>, by Tristram Hunt, Allen Lane, 443pp, £25, ISBN: 978-0713998528 </p> <p>Shakespeare’s ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-10-04/Light_Thickens.aspx Maurice Earls http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-10-04/Light_Thickens.aspx 8c14d538-5abd-49c3-8abb-27042ca32bdf Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:38:00 GMT <p style='line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;' 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16:22:00 GMT <p style='text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;'><em>The Genesis of Macroeconomics: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton</em>, by Antoin E Murphy, Oxford University ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-09-29/The_Genesis_of_Macroeconomics.aspx Thomas Boylan http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-09-29/The_Genesis_of_Macroeconomics.aspx 2e9655ee-da54-4788-8772-bb4138419d32 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:36:00 GMT <p style='text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><i>Collected Poems</i>, by Pearse Hutchinson, The Gallery Press, 294pp, €17.50, </p> <p style='line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'>ISBN: 978-1852353124</p> <p style='line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><i>At Least for a While</i>, by ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-09-28/At_Ease_With_Elsewhere.aspx Philip Coleman http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-09-28/At_Ease_With_Elsewhere.aspx 6b2f4430-bb58-481a-8c6e-3793e0701d72 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:25:00 GMT <p><strong></strong></p> 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<p></p> <p><span><em>This essay is the text of a a lecture Denis Donoghue will  deliver at The Yeats International Summer School on July 28th in Sligo.</em><br/> <br/> <br/> On April ...</span></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-10/Three_Presences.aspx Denis Donoghue http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-10/Three_Presences.aspx 28e201ba-6483-44bf-9760-60e9e2e487c2 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p><i>The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919</i>, by Mark Thompson, Faber and Faber, 454 pp, ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-09/The_Border_Campaign-3499607154.aspx Enda O’Doherty http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-09/The_Border_Campaign-3499607154.aspx 836d8a0a-7ffa-4e45-8315-2c9f69ada43d Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p><em><span>The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940</span></em><span>, by Samuel Beckett, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck (eds), Cambridge University ...</span></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-08/Posted_in_France.aspx George O' Brien http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-08/Posted_in_France.aspx ca74450f-3d32-42cb-82ba-f374aa3602fe Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p><span></span></p> <p><i><span>Not Untrue and Not Unkind</span></i><span>,</span><span> Ed O’Loughlin, Penguin, pp 288, £12.99, ISBN: 978-1844881857</span></p> <p><span>Journalism and fiction tend to be ...</span></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-07/Working_in_the_Dark.aspx Carol Taaffe http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-07/Working_in_the_Dark.aspx d3117dbb-cdcf-4e8b-95b0-a30d71a92361 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p></p> <p><span> <em>The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World</em>, by Niall Ferguson, Allen Lane, 442 pp, £25, ...</span></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-06/That_Clinking_Clanking_Sound.aspx Antoin E Murphy http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-06/That_Clinking_Clanking_Sound.aspx ac7a3720-e098-4735-8e0f-c166ca0f6473 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT <p><i><span>William Monsell of Tervoe 1812-1894: 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background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 150%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;' class='MsoNormal'><em><span style='font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);'>What the Curlew Said, Nostos Continued</span></em><span style='font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);'>, by John Moriarty, The Lilliput Press, 376 pp, €30, ISBN: 978 1 84351 124 ...</span></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-12-11/Shedding_The_Ego.aspx Manus Charleton http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-12-11/Shedding_The_Ego.aspx b54662d4-2498-4239-8882-944248e65780 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;'><span size='1' face='georgia' style='line-height: 150%; font-family: georgia; font-size: 8pt;'>B<em><span face='georgia' style='font-family: georgia;'>eckett/Beckett</span></em>, by Vivian Mercier, Souvenir Press, 254 pp, £12, ISBN: 978-0285630109 </span></p> <p style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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line-height: 150%' class='MsoNormal'><em><span style='font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: georgia'>St Paul’s Ephesus: Texts and Archaeology, </span></em><span style='font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: georgia'>by Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, Liturgical Press/Michael Glazier, 289 pp, $29.95, ISBN 978-0814652596<br/> </span><u1:p></u1:p></p> <p style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%' class='MsoNormal'><span style='font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: georgia'><br/> Strolling down the ...</span></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-12-07/House_of_Gold.aspx Patrick Comerford http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-12-07/House_of_Gold.aspx ba776307-2596-4a38-8f38-8fea1d967e09 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8' /> <meta name='ProgId' content='Word.Document' /> <meta name='Generator' content='Microsoft Word 12' /> <meta name='Originator' content='Microsoft Word 12' /> <link href='file:///C:\DOCUME~1\radhika\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_filelist.xml' rel='File-List' /> <link href='file:///C:\DOCUME~1\radhika\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_themedata.thmx' rel='themeData' /> <link href='file:///C:\DOCUME~1\radhika\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_colorschememapping.xml' rel='colorSchemeMapping' /> <style> </style> <p style='margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal' class='MsoNormal'><em><span lang='EN-IE' style='font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;'>Histoire politique de la Belgique. Facteurs et acteurs de changement</span></em><span lang='EN-IE' style='font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;'>. Xavier Mabille. CRISP (Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques), ...</span></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-12-06/Can_t_Go_On.aspx Martin McGarry http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-12-06/Can_t_Go_On.aspx f4374682-23a9-40b0-a57b-af436d1d9189 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%'><i><span style='line-height: 150%'>Richard Ford’s fiction, John Banville has said, “is as revolutionary as Proust’s adventures in time travel”. 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It is ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-29/Response_to_John-Paul_McCarthy_s_Reason_and_Passion.aspx admin http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-29/Response_to_John-Paul_McCarthy_s_Reason_and_Passion.aspx 811c6db5-9cb8-421f-a868-8eb6c699f69e Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>There are moments in our lives when we learn about something new, moments that give us a glow of satisfaction ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Praise_for_the_Microphone.aspx Evelyn Conlon http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Praise_for_the_Microphone.aspx 0811fe07-38fb-47fc-bbf9-fb75f90d7b9f Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>A quarter of a century has now elapsed since the inception of a new Poland – the Poland of Solidarity. ...</em></p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Focus_on_Poland_II.aspx Ryszard Kapuściński http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Focus_on_Poland_II.aspx 34611838-9bb3-4e6f-9468-f7cd766530d5 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>The Curtain</em>, by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher, Faber and Faber, 256 pp, £12.99, ISBN: ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/That_Sweet_Ironic_Smile.aspx Belinda McKeon http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/That_Sweet_Ironic_Smile.aspx 062ee26a-6c8b-48b5-9ef4-f4eb1a7e75d1 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>Cycling in Victorian Ireland</em>, by Brian Griffin, Nonsuch Publishing, 220 pp, €17.99, ISBN: 978-1845885625 <br/> <br/> A popular way of condemning ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/The_Best_Circles.aspx Donncha Ó Muirithe http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/The_Best_Circles.aspx 682ea7b8-ccdf-46d3-aa8c-f3ebc541f738 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>Boy</em>, by James Hanley (preface by Anthony Burgess, notes and appendix by Chris Gostick), Oneworld Classics, 300 pp, £7.99, ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/A_Queer_Sort.aspx Kristin Anderson http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/A_Queer_Sort.aspx 083793b1-2c9c-4ac8-a017-f1a1f1f23734 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006, </em>by Gore Vidal, Little, Brown, £17.99, 288 pp, ISBN: 978-0316027274</p> <p>There ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Thoughts_from_the_Top_Table.aspx Stephen Wilson http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Thoughts_from_the_Top_Table.aspx c5548699-1235-4888-a555-e199c38f105f Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>Nomad’s Hotel: Travels in Time and Space</em>, by Cees Nooteboom, Vintage Books, 240 pp, £7.99, ISBN 978-0099453789 </p> <p>It may ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/To_Aran_or_Isfahan.aspx Paul O'Brien http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/To_Aran_or_Isfahan.aspx 4cf78c77-27ff-4671-8bc5-df93637dc081 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>The War for Muslim Minds</em>, by Gilles Kepel, Harvard University Press, £10.95, ISBN: 067401992X</p> <p>In February 1945, President Franklin ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Among_the_Believers.aspx Marianne Fischer http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Among_the_Believers.aspx 105b3f54-606d-4ee9-bc9f-db6711ffae3b Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>Crusoe’s Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent</em>, by Tom Paulin, Faber, 360 pp, £20, ISBN: 0571221157</p> <p>While bare biographical facts ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/A_Sentimental_Dissenter.aspx Barra Ó Seaghdha http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/A_Sentimental_Dissenter.aspx caa4df2d-04d9-46ae-9b75-d9b13fe5745e Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>Dreuchd an Fhigheadair/The Weaver’s Task: a Gaelic Sampler</em>, edited and introduced by Crìsdean MhicGhillebhàin/Christopher Whyte, Scottish Poetry Library, 64 ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Brave_New_Words.aspx Peter Mackay http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Brave_New_Words.aspx da20c85f-ccb8-4dfd-ab59-d68460452e82 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>Michael Foot: A Life</em>, by Kenneth O Morgan,<strong> </strong>Harper Collins, 512 pp, £25, ISBN: 978-007178261</p> <p>Kenneth O Morgan has ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/The_King_of_Lost_Causes.aspx Peter Brooke http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/The_King_of_Lost_Causes.aspx a3f2ff56-279d-4ae6-813e-d41a8be996d6 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry</em>, by Paul Muldoon, Faber and Faber, 432 pp, £25, <br/> ISBN: ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Just_Like_That.aspx Barra Ó Seaghdha http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Just_Like_That.aspx ca3c4c6b-0d3d-46bf-a5f8-d31acf151ca5 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>Recently published books referred to in this article:</p> <p><em>Evangelicals and Catholics in 19th century Ireland</em>, James H Murphy editor, ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/The_Politics_of_Assimilation.aspx Maurice Earls http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/The_Politics_of_Assimilation.aspx 928919f4-66af-4b41-b531-caca69906c58 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>The Luck Penny, by John Maher, Brandon, 294 pp, €14.99, ISBN: 978-0863223617<br/> On a visit to her sister in London ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Rubbing_Along.aspx James Ryan http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Rubbing_Along.aspx 7eafefed-4cbd-4052-b38f-bc9ec546260c Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>Books referred to in this essay: Raymond Murray, <em>The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge</em>, Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, 2005, ISBN: ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Oral_Culture_and_Popular_Autonomy.aspx Brian Earls http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Oral_Culture_and_Popular_Autonomy.aspx e788ab59-2c74-436a-822e-bafb0d495dc1 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>Recently published books referred to in this article: </p> <p><em>Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History, </em>byCormac Ó ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Citizens_of_the_Republic.aspx Manus O'Riordan http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Citizens_of_the_Republic.aspx 1300973f-01c3-448f-ac40-bae1fbd4f3b2 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill,</em> by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev, Robson Books, ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Destroyed_by_Art.aspx Susan Lanigan http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Destroyed_by_Art.aspx dc1a7127-2f49-4710-acd4-b23384f6a686 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p><em>The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair, </em>by Peter Mandler, Yale University ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Kindly_Modest_and_Loveable.aspx Michael D Langan http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Kindly_Modest_and_Loveable.aspx f8395aad-c6c4-4d4d-821b-a566958a57e1 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT <p>Wiktor Osiatyński</p> <p>Poland appears a prosperous country. New construction sites loom over the cities and the price of apartments soars. ...</p> http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Focus_on_Poland.aspx Wiktor Osiatyński http://www.drb.ie/more_details/08-09-28/Focus_on_Poland.aspx d26dddb4-1aa0-4fa7-99c7-9f5fd4556fc4 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT