This blog was written before the death of Pope Francis. Michael J Farrell writes: I often wish people would ask me what’s on my mind. What I would then tell them is anyone’s guess. But if the pope were in the news, I might tell the inquiring entity about my novel, Papabile, written forty-odd years […]

Dublin Review of Books

06.06.2025

Lines of Vision - DRB

Ben Keatinge writes: The Amergin Step is a book with many tributaries from the fields of archaeology, myth, folklore, history and literature, but perhaps its unifying principle is that of vision, its way of seeing and interpreting landscape, specifically the Iveragh peninsula in south Kerry. Paddy Bushe has been exploring Iveragh through the eyes and […]

Dublin Review of Books

15.06.2025

The Value of a Life - DRB

Ryan Breeden writes: In March 2018, members of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) presented a formal ‘inquiry’ about the number of migrant families producing children with severe disabilities based on the alleged prevalence of incestuous marriages. The reaction to this almost word-for-word reworking of older antisemitic tropes about Jews and disability provoked swift public […]

Dublin Review of Books

15.06.2025

Trump, Harvard, Free Speech - DRB

Kevin Stevens writes: I play pickleball several times a week at the YMCA in Central Square, Cambridge, a short walk from Harvard University. A cohort of thirty to forty of us play, and the group is a cross-section of the cosmopolitan Cambridge community. We run in age from fifteen to eighty-five. We are students, working […]

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