Irish Literature
Book Review: The King of the Cats Returns — Seamus Heaney’s Complete Poems and the Poetry of Justice
In a monumental new gathering of his work, the Nobel laureate’s poems—of rural labor, private grief, history, and divided Northern Ireland—remain a moral force in a newly fraught moment.
Claire Keegan’s novella expertly shows how the culture of idle talk in certain Irish communities is like a secret code — an intricate language that both obscures and reveals.
The critic settles too comfortably too often on a familiar trope — Ireland’s sense of promise squelched.
The Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.
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