Patricia Craig’s insightful essay on Heaney’s letters captures the genius and sheer humanity of the great poet. drb.ie/articles/a-smi…

For Charles de Gaulle, at a time when France could still resist, Marshal Pétain chose collaboration with the Nazis. He was given a life sentence more to serve this myth than for his suspension of democracy and complicity in crimes against humanity. drb.ie/articles/petai…

The return of George Galloway to UK politics brings to mind his run-in with the Stickies...

“For Butler, the most important way of gauging the health of a nation is to examine how it treats its minorities.” ~ from the Dublin Review of Books essay on Hubert Butlerʼs Balkan Essays (edited by Chris & Jacob Agee) 📚 drb.ie/articles/an-ea… Irish Literary Times Hubert Butler Fraktura

Farrel Corcoran digs deep to reveal the role of the online conspiracy and disinformation ecosystem in fostering a violent fascist consciousness in Ireland, and how this is linked to the global far-right sphere. drb.ie/articles/democ…

Martin Wolf argues we are close to having to make the choice offered by the great Louis Brandeis: ‘You can either have democracy in this country or you can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but you can’t have both.’ drb.ie/from-liberalis…

‘The Irish Jew’ was the great success of the Dublin stage in 1922. We can learn much about attitudes to the Jewish community, and some other interesting things, from this mediocre but hugely popular drama. drb.ie/the-irish-jew

"The script further reflects an inclusive vision of Ireland, decidedly inimical to the antisemitism common on the European mainland." Maurice Earls Dublin Review of Books on the play "The Irish Jew" (c.1921) by John MacDonagh [brother of Thomas MacDonagh] drb.ie/the-irish-jew/

She dislikes her daughter’s type: young women who live at home in converted attics, who have credit cards and Instagram accounts, and the power to decide who is a bitch and who isn’t, who blame everything on their parents and cry if they see a dead fox. drb.ie/articles/sween…

This is one hell of a read.

Frank Vernon’s “Prufrockian perambulations” and other connections between @Succession and T.S. Eliot’s poetry – identified by David Barnes for Dublin Review of Books – details via our News page: tseliotsociety.uk

Our dear friend Dave passed away suddenly two years ago today. He was one of the smartest, funniest, most decent people I’ve ever met and I’ll always be grateful that Enda O’Doherty captured him so well here. David McKechnie 1976-2022 Dublin Review of Books drb.ie/david-mckechni…

"Few contemporary writers possess so instinctive a sense of the poem’s inner grace, or have access to that soft core of light her words reveal, radiating outward to infuse life with meaning." On Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: drb.ie/painting-light/ Dublin Review of Books The Gallery Press

Dublin Review of Books Do re mi. Con Curran collection.

New book review from me on Aaron Edwards A People Under Siege & Claire Mitchell Ghost Limb. Beyond Defiance - DRB drb.ie/articles/beyon… Department of Politics and International Relations

literature and capital in the dirty old town! read my musings in Dublin Review of Books 🌆📚 drb.ie/articles/liter…

Conservatives in Ireland appeared to have lost the battle of ideas that now shapes the country. But a course correction may be under way, writes Bryan Fanning in Dublin Review of Books eurozine.com/just-ourselves/

A long and difficult watch by the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, reminding us of the importance and responsibility Britain has to help deliver a two-state solution where Palestinians and Israelis can live in peace with mutual, equal, fair and just rights 🙏 🍉 After a brief