Mary and Padraic Colum - Lives and the Dream: Bringing a singular literary duo back to life
Margaret Kelleher seeks to introduce new readers to the work of this successful intellectual couple
Hope amid the dangers of tech, magic, and bad breakups: this month’s YA recommendations
Exposed – The Scandals that Shook the Irish State: Drawing a line from the past to today’s hot issues
Ukrainian Lessons - Art in a Time of War: A plea about a conflict in the here and now
On the Equality of All Things by Carlo Rovelli: A sceptical eye on humanity’s grand claims
John Boyne: ‘Wilde was gay, he went to Trinity, he went to England. That’s me, me, me’
AK Blakemore: ‘The best historical fiction is comfortable living with the sheer weirdness of the past’
Poem of the Week: Dublin Eclipse
SHORT STORIES
POETRY
Ireland - Why it Matters to be an Island by Michael Cronin: Stirring, provocative, unashamedly cerebral
By Andrew Lynch
The Strangers by Naomi Alderman: A wonderful blurring of lines between sci-fi and memoir
By Djamel White
End Times Fascism: How the ultra-rich not only benefit from crises but endeavour to trigger them
By Aengus Woods
Fearless! Vincent Browne’s Magill and Ireland in the 1980s: Skilful acknowledgment of a valuable legacy
By Conor Brady
Happy, Thank You. More, Please: A candid story of learning to value your own happiness
By John Walshe
We Shall Outlast Them - Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West: convincing insights on Russian statecraft
By Richard Horan
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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