News of the WorldNews of the World tells how a young man from north Wales found the means to give shape a youthful dream of going to live on Inis Mr, an adventure recorded in his acclaimed first memoir An Aran Keening. This beautiful, high spirited story blends moments of high farce, poetry and serious social observation, as the young McNeillie a self described quare fellow pursues his dream with a kind of fatalistic abandonment. Down but not quite out, he works his

New York) in 2002

night sorties over Germany and France

dressed in their wonderful finery of irony

The Hist has been acclaimed as a sphere of ideas as well as a school of oratory

her dispassionate depiction of the ordinary psychotic violence at the heart of families and society in rural Ireland is akin to that of Ferrante’s Naples

some of them appearing in print for the first time

was the IRA leader who negotiated a deal with the Nazis that threatened the existence of the State in 1940

He studied in Dublin

RIC constables and British army officers on parade

eliciting a flood of 70

sometimes fraught

his marriage and love affairs