Margaret Fuller, writing in 1840, had some very pertinent things to say about people who have opinions and like to sound off.
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There is still time to book for Dan Brown in Dublin and hear how he does it.
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Philip Larkin is still among Britain's most read poets, which must testify to a certain appetite for gloom. Alan Bennett however finds it is sometimes all a little too much.
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Dancing in the Regency period may have looked from a distance like a straitlaced and buttoned-up affair, but it was vital to the reproduction of 'good society' and charged with excitement and sexual energy.
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A new study examines silence in the Christian tradition and its use for good and evil.
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Liam Carson has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature/Ondaatje prize for his memoir of his parents, Call Mother a Lonely Field.
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Some people think it sounds harsh, and some very eminent Germans historically thought it wouldn't do, but spoken by the right person it will make you swoon.
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Remembering the wonderful English actor Richard Griffiths, who died last week aged sixty-five.
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American novelist and short story writer Cynthia Ozick claims to find an ineradicable anti-Semitism at work in Europe. But her definition of the phenomenon may not be the same as yours or mine.
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Evelyn Waugh writes to his friend Dorothy Lygon about his wartime adventures and work on what was to become Brideshead Revisited.
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A detailed study of Moscow in the year that Stalin's purges got into full swing is, writes one reviewer, an almost impossibly rich masterpiece.
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A little bit of Under Milk Wood for St David's Day. Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard rehearses her two late husbands.
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Two historians clash in a Belfast radio interview on the Famine. Did the British deliberately plan for genocide by 'allowing nature to run its course'?
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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published two hundred years ago today. Miss Austen couldn’t wait to try it out on the neighbours.
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George Orwell taught us how to detect cant and doublespeak. He also had some views on language that would do credit to a retired colonel in Tunbridge Wells.
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Seamus Heaney pays tribute to a man beloved by his friends for his originality as a poet, his acuity as a critic, his probity and courage and merriment.
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New material that sheds light on the last days of Roger Casement has been released by the National Library on open digital format.
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The English naturalist Gilbert White writes of the harsh January weather of 1776.
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Enough is as good as a feast. But a feast is as good as enough.
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An American academic finds the people he meets abroad more interesting and more widely knowledgeable than his colleagues and peers at home.
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