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The twenty-first century is an uncharted landscape of post-postmodernism. Truth can be whatever we want it to be at any given moment — or whatever. It’s up to you.
The 21st century is an uncharted landscape of post-postmodernism. Truth can be whatever we want it to be at any given moment – or whatever. It's ...
In EilÃs Dillonâs 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: âWasnât it herself told me ye were coming today . . .â Few Irish people would bat an eyelid at this â or pause to deconstruct it, such is the storyâs momentum. And it borders on cryptic for readers uninitiated in Irish English dialect; certainly its nuances and cadences are likely to be lost en route. So humour me while I marvel at some of...