What Broderick is attempting is a French novel set in an Irish town; he wishes to put dangerous liaisons into the Irish midlands, to allow his Irish characters the freedom to pray to God for their ...

“It is completely unprecedented, completely unacceptable, and Peadar Tóibín should explain why he is facilitating it,.” he said, Deputy Cian O Callaghan said Deputy Toibin should end the charade of ...

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Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has said that his party will speak with other political parties about reforming standing orders on speaking time in the Dáil so a situation does not arise in the ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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