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  In Eilís Dillon’s novel The Bitter Glass, set in west Co Galway during the Irish Civil War, there is a line of dialogue that is quietly extraordinary in showing some of the turns the English language has taken in Ireland: “Wasn’t it herself told me ye were coming today . . .” Few Irish people would bat an eyelid at this – or pause to deconstruct it, such is the story’s momentum. And it borders on cryptic for readers uninitiated in Irish English dialect; certa...

An Incomplete List of the Writers, Editors, and Great Literary Minds We Lost This Year December 18, 2020 The year is at an end, and I think I speak for pretty much everyone when I say: good riddance. (While we don’t have any guarantee that 2021 will be an improvement, it seems like it would have to be.) Among the many unhappinesses of this year, we lost what seems like an unusually large number of members of the literary community, from poets to novelists to editors to critics to publishers ...

Classics and Irish politics: Greece and Rome in the roots of Irish identities Irish writers, clerics and revolutionaries have long explored links with Greece and Rome Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 05:55 Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O’Rourke Imperial buildings have largely been divested of their colonial symbolism, most obviously in the case of the GPO which, as the headquarters for t...

New winter issues of The Poetry Review and Poetry News “Right, first take some weight off yourself. There’s too much pressure from the outside world… During writing your responsibility is to what you’re writing, outside world be gone,” advises Margaret Atwood, interviewed by Elaine Feeney in the Winter 2020 issue of In fact, the world is very much in evidence in the winter Review, which has new poems from the USA, Canada, Australia and across Europe, by Emily Bludworth de Barrios, ...