Laurence Sterne
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Widow’s weeds – An Irishman’s Diary about poppies, war, and John McCrae
- Opinion
- January 27, 2018, 00:01
Thanks to the Canadian poet John McCrae, the association between blood-red poppies and battlefields is widely assumed to be a legacy of the first Worl(...)

Mia Gallagher: A decade spent making strange lost worlds
- Books
- May 9, 2016, 06:00
Mia Gallagher’s debut novel, Hellfire, was a resounding critical success – one of the best debuts of the year, according to the Observer – which saw (...)

Javier Marías: ‘General Franco always seemed ridiculous: a short, ugly man with a shrill voice’
- Books
- March 15, 2016, 06:00
The year 1980 was an exhilarating time to be alive in Spain. General Francisco Franco had died five years earlier, in November 1975. There followed a(...)

From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literature
- Film
- February 24, 2016, 06:00
Even the doziest domestic observer will have noticed that Irish cinema is passing through an unprecedented period of fecundity. Others are blowing ou(...)

Fintan O’Toole’s top British novels
- Heritage
- December 8, 2015, 16:25
I was one of 82 foreigners enlisted for BBC Culture’s poll of the best 100 British novels. Each of us was asked to pick a top ten. Only half of mine (...)

David Butler: ‘Great writers enrich experience, even the mundane’
- Books
- February 3, 2015, 15:00
David Butler is the author of three novels: The Last European (Wynkin de Worde 2005); The Judas Kiss (New Island 2012); City of Dis (New Island 2014);(...)

Maverick of the Russian masters
- Books
- December 7, 2013, 01:00
‘Here is God’s plenty,” remarked the English poet John Dryden of The Canterbury Tales. A similar comment could apply to the work of the 19th-century R(...)