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Updated / Wednesday, 21 Apr 2021 16:50 Colm Tóibín introduces Boland: Journey of a Poet, a new online production from Druid Theatre exploring the life of poet Eavan Boland through her own poetry and autobiographical prose, edited by Tóibín and performed by actor Siobhán Cullen, and premiering online this Thursday, April 22nd. I knew Eavan Boland s voice from the radio. Her tone was both questioning and authoritative. Poetry mattered to her. It did not survive solely in a private realm, but had, she believed, an element that was public. Its responsibility lay in the large, uncharted space between the lyrical and the political. As a reviewer and a broadcaster, she sought to tease out how this fraught and shifting space could be transformed. As a poet, she set about interrogating what was private, making clear that any image in a poem reflects not only the self but the wider world. And the question of who speaks in a poem, or who is the subject of a poem, remai ....
Laurence Crowley, who came from a patrician Dublin family of accountants, became one of the best-known business figures of his generation, firstly as a liquidator and later as a director and chairman of a raft of Irish public companies. His style and his smile suggest that he knows precisely where the bodies are buried, wrote Martin FitzPatrick in this newspaper 20 years ago, on the eve of Dr Crowley becoming governor of the Bank of Ireland. Indeed no one would dare quarrel with that perception of his role and influence over the past 40 years of building businesses, deconstructing them and mopping up after the mistakes of others. ....
Updated / Tuesday, 22 Dec 2020 11:29 Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s: Ireland agreed to a US request to search Cuban-bound planes passing through Shannon Reviewer score Publisher Royal Irish Academy Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Volume XII: 1961-1965 recalls a period when a Catholic Irish-American had just been elected to the White House and the biggest foreign policy issue of the day concerned British relations with Europe. Ireland was about to take a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Welcome to 1961. So much for the similarities, there were also lots of differences too from the themes of today. For starters, Britain was desperately trying to ....