In recent years, we’ve seen an abbundant increase in publications linked to the memory of the Holocaust and an opening of the publishing market to this type of material, thanks to a positive and interested reception on the part of readers. This shouldn’t lead us to believe that this has always been the case. The route that […]
Tim Pat Coogan describes interviewing Flann O’Brien in 1964 after the publication of The Dalkey Archive. The interview was carefully planned. Apart from getting him to talk, there was one other main objective: to keep O’Brien away from the drink. It was to take place at 8.30 on a Saturday morning so that he could […]
Silvio Berlusconi and the dark heart of Italy. Review by Shane Barry. In the last decade or so, the countries that French bookstores warily lump together as “le domaine Anglo-Saxon” have regained their self-confidence, thanks to elevated growth rates and comparatively low unemployment. Those who believe the recent economic revival of English-speaking nations can by […]
Matthew Pearl has hit success with his very first novel The Dante Club. Pearl had received an award from The Dante Society of America prior to writing his debut novel, and has just co-edited a new edition of Longfellow’s influential, first American translation of Dante’s Divine Commedy. Though highly accomplished (he’s also a law graduate […]
Tom Brace – Poems ThreeMonkeysOnline supports new writers, offering them a platform for publication. Every month we publish poems/fiction from new writers. This month we showcase poems from Irish writer Tom Brace. New York Driven by necessity, man can achieveElevation in a confined space.And in a place of Babel reach the sky.Bewildered, men look up, […]
Tim Parks is a prodigious writer – with widely acclaimed novels, several books of observation on Italy and the Italians, not to mention his insightful literary criticism. His latest work Judge Savage has predictably enough divided critics, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Joseph Brodsky labelled him “Frankly, the best British author working today., […]
This year is the centenary of “Bloomsday” – celebrated in James Joyce’s Ulysses. We ask Senator David Norris – why the fuss? Every year in Dublin on 16 June, people celebrate James Joyce’s 1922 novel, Ulysses, by re-enacting the journeys of its central characters, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. With many participants dressed in Edwardian […]
What’s the context of the recent legislation in France banning the wearing of the hijab? What’s the background? Debates over laociti (state secularism) in French schools have taken place repeatedly since the 1789 revolution and the establishment of the French Republic. During the Third Republic, at the end of the nineteenth century, a mandatory, free […]
The Euro two years on. The growth and stability pact shattered, and prices rising – the single European Currency is a friend or foe? Twelve countries in Europe have now had over two years experience of living with the European Single Currency. Not only does the currency have an impact on prices and trade within […]