Gerard Smyth writes: War poet. Love poet. Nature poet. Elegist. Witness to the ‘Troubles’ and what in one poem he calls ‘the stereophonic nightmare / Of the Shankill and the Falls’. Michael Longley had a superb capacity to invent variations on his themes, and each became intrinsic to his art. The sustaining element across his […]

Dublin Review of Books

20.02.2025

Crash, baby, crash! - DRB

Maurice Earls writes: The Trump presidency is in the process of taking full political control in the United States. This is something which the framers of the American constitution very much wished to avoid. Institutional checks were written in. The houses of congress and the laws of the Republic have long operated as formidable constitutional […]

Dublin Review of Books

04.03.2025

The Walnut Tree - DRB

David Blake Knox writes: Thirty-five years have now passed since civil war erupted in the Balkans. In 1990, the Yugoslav federation began to tear itself apart, with insurrections breaking out in most of its six constituent republics. Wars in the Balkans have book-ended and characterised much of the twentieth century in Europe. This one proved […]

Dublin Review of Books

05.03.2025

Mapping the Civil War - DRB

Sean Sheehan writes: Traumas cause deep wounds and leave scars, so it is understandable that some veterans of Ireland’s civil war might want it best forgotten. I recall being advised, on the eve of a family occasion to which a survivor from the building of the Thai-Burma railway in Thailand was coming, that it would […]

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