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Picking At It

David Wheatley — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:01:47 GMT

New Collected Poems, by Derek Mahon, Gallery Press, 391 pp, €20/€35, ISBN: 978-1852355128

First, the casualties. Leaving aside ...

Get Smart

Paul Gillespie — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:56:05 GMT

Scenarios of survival, transformation and collapse are being written for the euro as the European Union’s single currency faces, from ...

The Last Thing She Wanted

Kevin Stevens — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:48:52 GMT

Blue Nights, by Joan Didion, Fourth Estate, 188 pp, £12.99, ISBN: 978-0007432929

On the evening of December 30...

Documents of a Spiritual Resistance

John Minahane — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:43:29 GMT

A Bardic Miscellany, ed Damian McManus and Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, Department of Irish, School of Languages, Literatures ...

Getting By

Sean OHuiginn — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:36:29 GMT

And the Show Went on: Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris, by Alan Riding, Duckworth, 432 pp, £20, ISBN: 978-0715640678...

Belonging And Becoming

Denis Sampson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:28:36 GMT

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, described as a memoir, dramatises the experience of John from the age of seven ...

Carving It Up

Richard O’Brien — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:24:30 GMT

A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East, by James Barr, Simon ...

Sifting And Winnowing

Guy Beiner — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:18:34 GMT

Out of the Frame: the Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel, by Ilan Pappé, Pluto Press, 256 pp, £14.99, ...

The Great Unloved

Eoin O’Malley — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:11:17 GMT

Bertie: Power & Money, by Colm Keena, Gill & Macmillan, 288 pp, €16.99, ISBN: 978-0717150694

Bertie Ahern ...

Missing

David Blake Knox — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:17:59 GMT

In his review of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Vol VII, 1941-1945, in the last drb, Pádraig Murphy ...

Back To Basics

Enda O’Doherty — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:57:00 GMT

Ill Fares The Land, by Tony Judt, Penguin, 237 pp, £9.99, ISBN: 978-0718191412

In 1980, the year after his ...

My Words, Your Words

Tim Groenland — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:11:00 GMT

Beginners, by Raymond Carver, Vintage, 224 pp, £7.99, ISBN: 978-0099540328

Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, by Carol Sklenicka, ...

What’s The Plan?

Michael O’Sullivan — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:29:00 GMT

Over the next four years in Ireland, a cottage industry will grow up around the centenary of the 1916 revolution. ...

Dandelions And Small Beer

Eoin Bourke — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:23:00 GMT

Reading Pearse Hutchinson. From Findrum to Fisterra, ed Philip Coleman and Maria Johnston, Irish Academic Press, 286pp, €45, ISBN. ...

Two Kinds of Life

Kevin Stevens — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:39:00 GMT

Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps, edited by John McIntyre, Counterpoint, 212 pp, $25.00, ...

The Kids Are Alright

Maurice Earls — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:47:00 GMT

Zoot Suit, The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania Press, 238 pp, $24.95 ISBN: ...

Back To The Reader

Carol Taaffe — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:01:00 GMT

Anne Enright, Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill (eds), Irish Academic Press, €22.95, ISBN: 978-0716530817

In his introduction to ...

Ill Prepared

Mary Jones — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:27:00 GMT

The Last Irish Plague: The Great Flu Epidemic in Ireland 1918-19, by Catriona Foley, Irish Academic Press, 240 pp, ...

Mind And Mystery

Manus Charleton — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:57:00 GMT

The Moral Landscape, by Sam Harris, Black Swan, 384 pp, £9.99, ISBN: 978-0552776387

How should we live? Over ...

Now About All These Women

Anthony Roche — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:33:00 GMT

W. B.Yeats and the Muses, by Joseph M. Hassett, Oxford University Press, 255 pp, £60, ISBN: 978-0199582907

As ...

Visions of Europe

Fergal Lenehan — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:05:00 GMT

So nicht, Europa! Die Drei Grossen Fehler der EU, by Jochen Bittner, Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, 288 pp, €14.90, ISBN 978-3423248334...

Losing It

Tom Hennigan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:36:00 GMT

Everyone remembers the world-changing events of the morning of September 11, 2001. Everyone remembers the planes commandeered by terrorists slamming ...

Flash Fiction

Winners — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:03:00 GMT

The Dublin Review of Books is pleased to announce the winners of its 2011 Flash Fiction Competition. First prize goes ...

All Or Nothing

Joschka Fischer — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:26:44 GMT

This essay is based on the text of a lecture by former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer, given on June ...

That Which You Had To Do

Seamus Deane — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:18:00 GMT

Decision Points, by George W Bush, Virgin Books, 512 pp, €25, ISBN: 978-0753539668

Alexis de Tocqueville and the ...

The Good Statesman

Michael Lillis — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:11:00 GMT

“Inevitably most politicians have mixed motivations; few are wholly inspired by either vanity or self-interest, and few, if any, are ...

Neutrality by Ordeal

Pádraig Murphy — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:05:00 GMT

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Vol VII, 1941-1945, Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy, Dermot Keogh, Eunan O’Halpin, (eds), ...

Use The Mirror

Michael Hennigan — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:53:00 GMT

The Irish Economy Blog www.irisheconomy.ie began in 2008.

In November 2008, Queen Elizabeth reflected a common public reaction when having been ...

The Visionary Upholsterer

David Askew — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:44:00 GMT

William Morris: A Life for Our Time, by Fiona MacCarthy, Faber and Faber, 780 pp, £20.00, ISBN: 978-0571255597...

Problematising Undecidability

Barra Ó Seaghdha — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:30:00 GMT

Remembering and Forgetting 1916: Commemoration and Conflict in Post-Peace Process Ireland, by Rebecca Graff-McRae, Irish Academic Press, 240 ...

New Light On Dissent

Marianne Elliott — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:12:00 GMT

Dissent into Treason: Unitarians, King-killers and the Society of United Irishmen, by Fergus Whelan, Brandon Books/Mount Eagle Publications ...

Beyond The Bel Paese

Niamh Cullen — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:54:00 GMT

The Pursuit of Italy: A history of a land, its regions and their peoples, by David Gilmour, Allen ...

Harvesting Souls For The Lord

Niall Meehan — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:46:00 GMT

The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, 1849-1950, by Miriam Moffitt, Manchester University Press, 320 pp, ...

Fail, Fall, Far Flounder Down

Norman White — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:21:00 GMT

The Secret Dublin Diary of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Robert Waldron, Brandon, 140 pp, £10.99, ISBN: 978-0863224096

Question ...

From Bean To Bar

David Ralph — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:46:00 GMT

Chocolate nations: Living and dying for cocoa in West Africa, by Órla Ryan, 182 pp, €16.35, Zed Books, ISBN: ...

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Sean OHuiginn — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:03:22 GMT

The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898-1918, by Sean McMeekin, ...

All Things Considered

Enda O’Doherty — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:46:20 GMT

Proud to Be a Mammal, by Czesław Miłosz, Penguin, 296 pp, £9.99, ISBN: 978-0141193199

I met the ...

Must Do Better

Michael Casey — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:32:04 GMT

Countries adopt different ways of growing their economies. Some are blessed with natural resources, while others have a flair ...

Mean Street USA

George O’Brien — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:14:03 GMT

The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction, by Catherine Ross Nickerson (ed), Cambridge University Press, 208 pp, £17.99, ...

This is my Letter to the World

Maurice Earls — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:57:08 GMT

Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, by Helen Vendler, Belknap/ Harvard, 533 pp, £25.95, ISBN: 978-0674048676

White Heat: The ...

Behind The Curtain

Carol Taaffe — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:27:55 GMT

All a Novelist Needs: Colm Tóibín on Henry James, Johns Hopkins University Press, 176 pp, £13, ISBN: 978-0801897795 ...

History In A Hurry

David Fitzpatrick — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:12:50 GMT

The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork, 1921–1922, by Gerard Murphy, Gill & Macmillan, 408 pp, €24.99, ...

Augmenting Memory, Dispelling Amnesia

Lillis Ó Laoire — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:03:54 GMT

Róise Rua: An Island Memoir, by Pádraig Ua Cnáimhsí, translated by JJ Keaveny. Mercier Press, 288 pages, €19.99, ...

Secrets And Lies

Angus Mitchell — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:25:54 GMT

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5, by Christopher Andrew, Allen Lane, 1,032 pp, ...

Reversing The Conquest

Pádraig Lenihan — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:10:35 GMT

An Argument Defending the Right of the Kingdom of Ireland (1645), by Conor O’Mahony, edited by John Minahane, ...

No Sad Imperialist of the Aesthetic Self

Ciarán Benson — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:42:10 GMT

His has been a remarkable life’s work. Born in 1928 in Ballaghadereen, Co Roscommon, reared and educated in ...

The Big Splatter

John Montague — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:59:00 GMT

Human Chain, by Seamus Heaney, Faber and Faber, 85 pp, £12.99, ISBN: 078-0571269228

Sometimes it seems that poetry ...

The Sea of Anecdotes

Brian Earls — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:58:00 GMT

Books referred to in this article: Sovetskii Siouz v Zerkale Politichkogo Anekdota / The Soviet Union Through the Prism ...

In the Dialectical Fairyland

Judith Devlin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:57:00 GMT

Molotov’s Magic Lantern: a Journey in Russian History, by Rachel Polonsky, Faber and Faber, 416 pp, £20, ISBN: ...

A Gift of Tongues

Barra Ó Seaghdha — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:56:00 GMT

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, by Patrick Crotty (ed), Penguin Classics, 1,120 pages, £40, ISBN: 978-0141439457

An ...

Foreign Devils

David McNeill — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:55:00 GMT

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, by David Mitchell, Sceptre, 480 pp, £18.99, ISBN: 978-0340921562

Japan has ...

The Art of Concealment

Margaret Kelleher — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:54:00 GMT

Aloysius O’Kelly, Art, Nation, Empire, by Niamh O’Sullivan, Field Day, 358 pp, €40.95, ISBN 978-0946755424

In The Irish ...

The Troubled Mirror

Peter Brooke — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:53:00 GMT

‘We Irish’ in Europe: Yeats, Berkeley and Joseph Hone, by WJ McCormack, University College Dublin Press, 211 pp, €50, ...

Concrete Proof

James Moran — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:52:00 GMT

The News Where You Are, by Catherine O’Flynn, Viking, 311 pp, £12.99, ISBN: 978-0670918553

One of England’s most ...

Badfellas

Paul O’Mahony — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:51:00 GMT

McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime, by Misha Glenny, Vintage, 432 pp, £8.99, ISBN: 978-0099481256
Pain Control and Drug Policy: A ...

Our Man in Bohemia

Fin Keegan — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:50:00 GMT

The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, (translated by Natasha Wimmer), Picador, 591 pp, £8.99, ISBN: 978-0330509527
2666, ...

One Part Prescient, Five Parts Puerile

David Askew — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:49:00 GMT

H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life, by Michael Sherborne, Peter Owen, 405 pp, £25.00, ISBN: 978-0720613513

HG ...

Different Because Worse

Sakis Gekas — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:48:00 GMT

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M Reinhart & Kenneth S Rogoff, Princeton University ...

Aiken’s Playpen

Michael Lillis — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:55:00 GMT

Ireland at the United Nations: Memories of the Early Years, by Noel Dorr, Institute of Public Administration, 264 pp, ...

Flash Fiction Winners

drb_admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:36:00 GMT

The Dublin Review of Books is pleased to announce the winners of the first drb Flash Fiction Competition and to ...

One Of Our Own

Tom Hennigan — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:55:00 GMT

Evo Morales: The extraordinary rise of the first indigenous president of Bolivia, by Martín Sivak, 256 pp, £17.99, Palgrave ...

Genius For Erasure

Michael Hinds — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:13:00 GMT

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein, Norton, 624 pp, £22, ISBN: ...

Haunted By Ghosts

Eoghan Smith — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:19:00 GMT

Ghost Light, by Joseph O’Connor, Harvill Secker, 256 pp, £16.99, ISBN: 978-0436205712

At the end of Ghost Light...

A Voracious Reader

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:06:00 GMT

The Case for Books, by Robert Darnton, Public Affairs, 240 pp, £13.99, ISBN: 978-1586488260

In L’an 2440 (The ...

A Bit Of Stick

Tadhg Foley — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:32:00 GMT

Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power, by Robert E Sullivan, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 614 pp, €36, ...

Two By Two

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:39:00 GMT

The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker, (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer), Vintage, 283 pp, €9.50, ISBN: 978-0099516873

...

Or So I Was Told

Robert Looby — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:35:00 GMT

Kapuściński Non-Fiction, by Artur Domosławski, Świat Książki, 608 pp, 54.90 PLN, ISBN: 978-8324719068

Artur Domosławski’s biography ...

The Dub Republic

Michael G Cronin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:39:00 GMT

The Dead Republic, by Roddy Doyle, Jonathan Cape, 329 pp, £13.99, ISBN: 978-0224090100

In the first part of ...

No Tomorrow

Dara McHugh — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:27:00 GMT

Solar, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Cape, 285 pp, £13.99, ISBN: 978-0739377789

There are many issues that the turbulent passage ...

Stop The Lights

Enda O’Doherty — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:20:00 GMT

In Defence of the Enlightenment, by Tzvetan Todorov, Atlantic Books, 161 pp, £16.99, ISBN: 978-1843548133

In ...

Taming The Monster

Brian Donnelly — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:15:00 GMT

Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living, by Declan Kiberd, Faber and Faber, 399 pp, £14.99, ...

One Hand Clapping

Kevin Stevens — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:04:00 GMT

In Search of J. D. Salinger, by Ian Hamilton, Faber and Faber, 222 pp, £12.00, ISBN: 978-0571269273...

A Moocow Coming Down Along the Road

Maurice Earls — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:54:00 GMT

Economic Development 50 Years On 1958-2008, Michael Mulreany (ed), Institute of Public Administration. 410 pp, €28, ISBN: 978-1904541813 ...

From The Green Island

Fergal Lenehan — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:30:00 GMT

Die deutsch-irischen Beziehungen während der Weimarer Republik, 1918-1933: Politik – Wirtschaft – Kultur, by Christopher Sterzenbach, LIT, ...

Not Pulling Punches

David Askew — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:48:00 GMT

Jonathan Swift, by Brean Hammond, Irish Academic Press, 214 pp, £17.95, ISBN: 978-0716529507
A Modest Proposal and ...

Minority Report

Frank Callanan — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:06:00 GMT

Parnell to Pearse: Some Recollections and Reflections, by John J Horgan, with a biographical introduction by John Horgan, University ...

Top People

Niall Meehan — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:56:00 GMT

The Irish Establishment 1879-1914, by Fergus Campbell, Oxford University Press, 320 pp, £55, ISBN: 978-0199233229

Fergus Campbell’s ...

Ár Scéal Féin

Brian Earls — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:47:00 GMT

Brian Earls

Print and Popular Culture in Ireland 1750-1850, by Niall Ó Ciosáin, Lilliput, 265 pp. €15. ISBN: 978-1843510727

Early ...

What Came Up Was Goosegrass

Peter Brooke — Sun, 02 May 2010 14:37:00 GMT

How are we to understand the fall of the Soviet Union in general and, in particular, the role played ...

Opening Up

Carol Taaffe — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:06:00 GMT

The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 1 4, Picador, boxed set, $65, ISBN: 978-0312429164

In November, as the ...

Synge’s Violin

Adrian Paterson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:55:00 GMT

Music and the Irish Literary Imagination, by Harry White, Oxford University Press, 288 pp, £58, ISBN: ...

The Melancholy Gods

Eoghan Smith — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:49:00 GMT

The Infinities, by John Banville, Picador, 256 pp, £14.99, ISBN: 978-0330450249

John Banville has once more returned to ...

Edging Towards Peace

Michael Lillis — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:20:00 GMT

Michael Lillis and Sir David Goodall were both intimately involved, on the Irish and the British side respectively, in the ...

A New Life

Paul Larkin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:59:00 GMT

Much as William Shakespeare has entered into our language and discourse as “the Bard” who changed our understanding of art ...

Never Satisfied, Never At Rest

Mark Wallace — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:11:00 GMT

Charles Dickens, by Michael Slater, Yale University Press, 720 pp, £25, ISBN: 978-0300112078

Michael Slater’s Charles Dickens is, ...

Cognitive Tics of the Herd

Paul Daly — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:23:00 GMT

Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Allen Lane, 640 pp, £14.99, ISBN: 978-1846142383

That ...

Minding The Language

Rachel Andrews — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:18:00 GMT

Love of the World: Essays, by John McGahern, Faber, 350 pp, ISBN: 978-0571245116

Gustave Flaubert once ...

The Melting Centre

Eckhard Jesse — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:26:00 GMT

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German party politics is changing profoundly, but in an ...

How Firm A Foundation?

John-Paul McCarthy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:21:00 GMT

Deadwood: Complete HBO Seasons 1-3 (12 Disc Box Set), £44.99

Scene One

Wild Bill Hickok has ...

Into The Mainstream

George O’Brien — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:01:00 GMT

After the Flood: Irish America 1945-1960, James Silas Rogers and Matthew J O’Brien (eds), Irish Academic Press. 223 pp, ...

The Hunger Angel

Siobhán Parkinson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:54:00 GMT

Atemschaukel, by Herta Müller, Carl Hanser Verlag, 304 pp, €19.90, ISBN: 978-3446233911

Ich halte die Balance, die Herzschaufel ...

A Discontinued People

Ion Ionita — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:43:00 GMT

Nature-lovers who chose to take a stroll last summer through the woods surrounding the Romanian Transylvanian village of Viscri might ...

Empress of Asunción

Tom Hennigan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:56:00 GMT

The Lives of Eliza Lynch, by Michael Lillis and Ronan Fanning, Gill & Macmillan, €24.99, ISBN: 978-0717146116

The Priest ...

Out of the Ice

Enda O’Doherty — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:30:00 GMT

Uncivil Society, by Stephen Kotkin with a contribution by Jan T Gross, Modern Library, 197 pp, $24, ISBN: 978-0679642763...

Time Bends in the Sun

Eva McGuire — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:44:00 GMT

Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?), by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, Da Capo, 242pp, £12.99, ...

A Revolutionary Janus

Padraig Yeates — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:48:00 GMT

The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party, by Brian Hanley and ...

The Need to Disguise

Kevin Stevens — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:22:00 GMT

Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro, Chatto & Windus, 303 pp, £17.99, ISBN: 978-0701183059

On the surface, Alice ...

Fugitive Pleasures

David Askew — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:29:00 GMT

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, by Selina Hastings, John Murray, 624 pp, £25, ISBN: 978-0719565540

W Somerset ...

Science and Nation

Shane McCorristine — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:49:00 GMT

The Royal College of Science for Ireland, 1867-1926: Exhibition at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, opening December 17th^1...

Against the Demon

Angus Mitchell — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:35:00 GMT

The Devil and Mr Casement: One Man’s Struggle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness, Jordan Goodman, Verso, ...