The Dublin Review, Number 18: Spring 2005
Brendan Barrington Rosita Boland House of Hutchinson, House of Murphy
Why are Tayto crisps different on each side of the Irish border? An inquiry into the great potato-crisp partition [essay]
Harry Clifton Shylock’s lament
The life and times of Benjamin Fondane, ‘patron saint of all maudits’, from Moldavia to Auschwitz, via Paris [essay]
Patrick Fitzgerald Solus rex
A young man, a prostitute, and a very expensive dress [fiction]
Vona Groarke ‘Foreignism’: A Philadelphia diary
Chronicle of a term teaching English literature at an American university, with observations political, topographical and linguistic [diary]
Molly McCloskey Two visits to Kosovo
Dispatch from a province whose prime minister is about to be indicted for war crimes [essay]
Tom Mac Intyre How to eat a fir-tree & keep yr lips moist
A young woman enters a mental hospital [fiction]
Justin Quinn Labyrinth of the revolution
How the Velvet Revolution was shaped by the architecture of Prague – and why the revolutionaries never shot a bunch of Communists [essay]
Colm Tóibín Barcelona, 1975
Remembering sex, books and music – especially sex – on the eve of Franco’s death [memoir]
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