the Dublin Review
Autumn 2002
Barrier methods
How the Irish state uses racial profiling to control immigration at its borders [reportage]
In the ear of the beholder
George Petrie and the Irish musical tradition [review-essay]
Sixth sense, seventh heaven
On writing, and revising, ‘Squarings’ [essay]
On translating Joseph Roth
Fourteen years and seven books on, a translator writes about bringing a master into English [essay]
On getting paid to read the TLS
A year and a half reading periodicals and 'spending all day writing things that never get into print' [journal]
Yeats and the lights of Dublin
From ‘gloomy, Victorian’ Belfast, a young poet feels the lure of literary Dublin [memoir]
Five poems
‘Nanny’, ‘Husband’, ‘Wife’, ‘Child and Mother’, 'Poet’
What the British knew
Newly published documents show that British intelligence in the War of Independence was more robust than generally believed [review-essay]
Purple murder
The fictions of Eoin McNamee [essay]
Firstly
An extract from The Parts
Flight path
An invasion of migratory birds, and ‘some kind of emergency’ for a man and a woman [fiction]