Books (Featured)
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Who Voted for Hitler?
Back in May of 2017, over drinks, The Nation’s Don Guttenplan recommended to me an out-of-print book from the early 1980s…
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Racists tried to ban this book. How ironic that Ireland might now shun it
To Kill a Mockingbird is part of many Irish childhoods. Should it supply moral instruction? Niamh Mulvey The Irish Times…
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The irresistible rise of John F. Kennedy, the great campaigner
Its sluggish currents hide the rusted hulks of 50 Japanese and American warships sunk during night battles while savage fighting…
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‘No migrants here!’: the Galway families transplanted to Meath’s Gaeltacht colony
Twenty-four families boarded two buses in Clonbur, Co Galway on March 29th, 1940, to make new homes as part of…
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The most anticipated books of 2021
There was a hunger for new voices, new stories and new perspectives that the fiction and non-fiction in 2021 continues…
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EU humiliated as Barack Obama pinpoints ‘unresolved contradictions’ at heart of bloc
The EU is going through arguably its greatest crisis of confidence. Tom Evans Express Regardless of the current state of…
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Hot off the presses: Good Weekend’s best summer books
What better way to further warm the heart than with a good book on the beach? Nicole Abadee WA Today…
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Peace in the age of chaos – Finding a new approach
Peace is a prerequisite for the survival of society as we know it in the 21st century, writes Steve Killelea…
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A study in power : The life of James A. Baker III
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Bobby Chesney, director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law,…
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It couldn’t happen here.
One of Turkey’s most popular journalists she is now an international author and activist in exile. Nicholas Karides In How…
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Kevin Barry: An Irish rebel in his relatives’ own words
One hundred years ago this weekend, Kevin Barry was executed in Mountjoy Prison. Ronan McGreevy The Irish Times Novelist Siofra…
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What Americans Can Learn From Their Isolationist Past
Kupchan seeks to do just that in his new book. We present here two timely excerpts. Charles A. Kupchan The…
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Why we must raise a generation of readers
It’s easy for me to say that being a reader has formed the foundation for my life. Lorraine Levis The…
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Global Bookmark
And by dragging Marx, kicking and screaming, back into the Rhinish Jewish community that shaped him, Avineri yields new insights…
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Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small
A rolling incineration of large swathes of the continent, the sky itself seemed to have been on fire, from the…
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Odyssey to Freedom
Categorized into seven parts, Odyssey to Freedom takes the reader through a journey of history, struggle, and human emotion. Valentino…
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