Analysis: the influential magazine offered incentives to mid-20th century Irish writers that were not available at home . By Yen-Chi Wu, KU Leuven. In a 1960 letter to Michael McLaverty, John ...

Let One of the Greatest Writers of the 20th Century Teach You How to Drink Scotch. Story by Staff Author, Kingsley Amis ...

Irish authors of the 19th and 20th centuries, ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, born in 1882 and died in 1941, is considered to be one of the most influential writers of the early 20th century.

Kingsley Amis is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and his love of Scotch whisky is legendary. ... (Irish which is spelled "whiskey" — had 0.8 percent.

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn’t — and indeed can’t be — comprehensive.

Potter's writings helped herald an Irish spring that lasted throughout the 20th century. In 1948, Eamon De Valera, the former president of Ireland, addressed a crowd of 5,000 in Providence.

“Stranger Than Fiction” tells the story of these detonations across the course of the 20th century, focusing on individual ...

Director Braden Abraham sends his audience into total darkness at the top of his gorgeous staging of writer Brian Friel’s “Translations,” a rich and prescient Irish drama from 1980 with ...

June marks Pride Month in Ireland so it's an apt time to consider the silencing of homosexual voices throughout the 20th century and the marginalisation of queer Irish writers in favour of the ...

Beginning with the Ulster crisis of 1912 and the Home Rule Act of 1914, Killeen traces the complicated history of the 20th-century Irish Revolution through the outbreak of the First World War, the ...

Let One of the Greatest Writers of the 20th Century Teach You How to Drink Scotch. Staff Author, Kingsley Amis. ... Then, in 1831, a certain Aeneas Coffey, once Inspector-General of Irish Excise, ...