Short CircuitNo lasting solutions to the problems of war, social disorder and environmental degeneration can be found without abandoning the high energy, high mobility, intensively individual style of life developed by the advanced industrial nations.Malcolm MacEwan (1911 1996) With the deregulation of international trade and a free movement of capital, the world economy is more unstable than ever and liable to economic collapse. So precarious is it that it should

whose delight is to celebrate l’amour

While modern Irish poetry in English displays a notable reticence

From the noble strength of Áed to the poetic elegance of Áine

In an essay from 1996 collecton Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Essays

the ritualized debates between community leaders at ‘nightly meetings’

By July 1981 four republican hunger strikers had already died in Long Kesh Prison

The Pilgrimage offers a daring exploration of sexuality

longings and unspoken tensions that shape a society crackling with self-awareness and concealed passions

Dublin Made Me is a unique account of an ordinary childhood transformed by war and revolution

Are we the iceberg into which the earth has crashed

in which the Office of Public Works

inseparable friends