While his comrades John Devoy, John Boyle O’Reilly, and Michael Davitt achieved international renown over decades, Cody was so shadowy that historians lost track of him after the celebrated Catalpa rescue of 1876. Continue reading
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One hundred years later, Partition v Brexit
At the beginning of the Brexit negotiations, the president of the European Council, said that any proposals by the United Kingdom that would not receive a nod of approval from Dublin would be rejected in Brussels. Continue reading
From Swirling Cark Mountain Mists
For those Scottish Pattons who arrived in NI at the Plantation and remained loyal, life could be rewarding. Yet many loyalists ran afoul of monarchs who wished to assert the supremacy of their Church of Ireland Continue reading
One of a Kind
Sinéad O’Connor is the kind of street kid that the whole world, except America, wants to take in and put in the guest room, and feed up with porridge and potatoes …. Continue reading
The Lillypilly Tree
The branches were bending in the wind. Branches. An Craoibhín Aoibhinn. That was the pen name of the writer Douglas Hyde… Continue reading
Dánta Nua le Colin Ryan
agus an ciúnas/a d’fhág an té a chuaigh
in airde fadó/ina dhiaidh
and the quietness left by the one who went up long ago Continue reading
From the Papers
From the Papers, news items: Pandora and Taxes, Best places to live in Ireland, and Sinn Fein. Continue reading
Reflections on Evelyn Conlon’s Moving about the Place
A new collection of short stories, some set in Australia, by Evelyn Conlon Continue reading
The Detail is Where Angels Lurk
The sense of life’s possibilities that this family history suggests is intoxicating. Continue reading
New Irish Fiction
Four new new Irish works, reviewed by Frank O’Shea. Continue reading
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