From the June 2015 Issue Independence Days A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–1923 By Diarmaid Ferriter Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918–1923 By Maurice Walsh LR
From the December 2009 Issue Sneaking Regard Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate Between Ireland and the British Monarchy By Mary Kenny LR
From the May 2008 Issue The Long Good Friday Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland By Jonathan Powell LR
From the November 2012 Issue North and South Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
From the March 2013 Issue Blighted Lives The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy By Tim Pat Coogan The Graves are Walking: The History of the Great Irish Famine By John Kelly LR
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
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