Poor old George Bernard Shaw

Glenn Patterson’s latest novel delves into the history of his native Belfast, before the trendy Titanic Quarter, before even …

LITERARY CRITICISM: The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism , By Terence Brown, Cambridge University Press, 281pp

IRISH STUDIES : Modernism, Ireland and Civil War, by Nicholas Allen, Cambridge University Press, 225pp, £50

IRISH STUDIES: THIS IMMENSELY valuable study offers an innovative, productive, and genuinely exciting investigation of the anxieties…

As a critic, George Bernard Shaw laid the foundation of 20th-century theatre, but his plays lie outside their time, writes Peter…

Irish Studies: 'Ireland may be a separatist issue", observes David Pierce in his introduction, "but it is almost impossible …

Literary Criticism: The publication of The Irish Writer and the World, a collection of essays that first appeared between 1979…

I started my Life of Bernard Shaw where he started his life: in Dublin

Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature by Augustine Martin, ed. Anthony Roche, UCD Press, 259pp, £26.95/£16.95