Culture How Ireland’s violent history haunts The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated film is set during the bloody conflict of 1922, but it is not a neat metaphor for civil war. By Roy Foster
Burning the bastards out The destruction of country houses in the Irish revolution can be seen as the last stage of a long… By Roy Foster
If the dead could talk, what would they say? The Dirty Dust gives voice to the buried Alan Titley's translation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille brings us a novel entirely in dialogue - and set in… By Roy Foster