The variety in this richly satisfying book is evident when we note how the insights of philosophy, musicology, and literary history and criticism are germane to Joyce studies

In times of conflict, culture also becomes a battleground

‘We need to see that there are different ways of looking at the world to that served to us by the mass media, which is necessarily pretty banal,’ argues Desmond Fennell

‘If you ever stop deconstructing God and then reconstructing God, you get an idol’

Limerick City of Culture controversy among issues tackled at ‘Theatre of Memory’ symposium

Richard Kearney reveals how trauma of Famine affects us even today