The Dublin Review, Number 22: Spring 2006

Maile Chapman Two stories A solicitous neighbour; and peculiar goings-on at a party [fiction] Catriona Crowe On the Ferns Report A chronicle of clerical abuse, cover-up and state inaction [review-essay] Brian Dillon Mad Tracey from Margate A seaside town and its most notorious daughter [review-essay] Molly McCloskey Natural and unnatural disasters In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, is the civil war heating up? [travel] George O’Brien Going inland John McGahern’s story, re-told as fact [review-essay] Aiden O’Reilly Human behaviour Three German girls, a ‘Celtic’ boy, and lots of roasted vegetables [fiction] Colm Tóibín The name of the game A debt-ridden widow turns to a can’t-miss business: chips [fiction]