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Emmet and the historians
[Review-essay] [Number 12 :: Autumn 2003]


Jorge Luis Borges’s story ‘Theme of the Traitor and the Hero’ was written in 1944. The action, we are told, is to take place ‘in an oppressed yet stubborn country – Poland, Ireland, the republic of Venice, some South American or Balkan state’. And then we are told, in typical Borgesian style, that the action in fact ‘took place’ in Ireland in 1824.

The Dublin Review

‘Barcelona, 1975' [essay]
[ Number eighteen :: Spring 2005 ]

'On John Butler Yeats' [essay]
[Number seventeen :: Winter 2004–5 ]

' Emmet and the historians' [review-essay]
[Number twelve :: Autumn 2003 ]


‘Henry James and Ireland: A Footnote’ [essay]
[Number seven :: Summer 2002 ]

House For Sale [ A Short Story ] [Number two :: Spring 2001]

On Francis Bacon [review-essay] [Number one :: Winter 2000–2001]

New York Review of Books

The Comedy of Being English
[ January 13, 2005 ]

Return to Catalonia
[ October 7, 2004 ]

The Black Diaries
[ September 23, 2004 ]

The Tragedy of Roger Casement
May 27, 2004

June 12, 2003 New Ways to Kill Your Father

December 19, 2002 The Cause that Called You

August 9, 2001Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

 

 

 

London Review of Books

LRB Link: In His Pink Negligée
Vol. 27 No. 8 dated 21 April 2005

LRB Link : I was Mary Queen of Scots
Vol. 26 No. 20, 21 October 2004

LRB Link : A Priest in the Family [ short story ]
Vol. 26 No. 9, 6 May 2004

Rinse it in dead champagne [ biography ]
LRB Link
Vol. 26 No. 3, 5 February 2004

How to be a wife [16 June 2002]

The Henry James of Harlem: James Baldwin's struggles. [14 September 2001]

The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart edited by Brendan Barrington. [1 September 2000]

Mothering: The Blackwater Lightship - Review by Terrry Eagleton [24 September 1999]

Famous Blue Raincoat [Short Story]
25 June 2005

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