Fine dining on day of The Dead
THE CHAMPAGNE corks had barely fallen silent on January 1st and James Joyce was already taking up headlines and column inches.
No sex, please, we're Irish
SOCIAL HISTORY: MAUREEN GAFFNEY reviews Asking Angela Macnamara: An Intimate History of Irish Lives By Paul Ryan Irish Academic Press, 228pp, €60/€24.95
Features »
- The books to read in 2012
Once you’ve made it through the stack of literature that filled your stocking, get your teeth into these – ARMINTA WALLACE picks the best publications from the year ahead
- Exporting Yeats and Behan to Bogotá
EXHIBITION LAST WEEK Bogotá saw the opening of an exhibition on the work of WB Yeats at the impressive Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez. Supported by the Fundalectura of Colombia and the Irish Consulate, the exhibition marks a growing interest in the work of Irish literature and drama in South America and in the Spanish-speaking world generally.
Reviews »
Inside the mind of Citizen Ken
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: MARK HENNESSY reviews You Can’t Say That By Ken Livingstone Faber & Faber, 710pp. £25
What Ireland voted for: democracy without choices
ELECTION 2011: STEPHEN COLLINS reviews How Ireland Voted 2011 Edited by Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh Palgrave Macmillan, 326pp. £65