Finding Ireland
Letter from Galway, 1990
Letter from Dublin, 1998 : the Celtic tiger
Letter from Dublin, 2005 : Wilde, Synge, and Orpen
Who were the Anglo-Irish?
The uneasy world of Somerville and Ross
Travels through Somerville and Ross's Ireland
The asymmetrical George Moore
Elizabeth Bowen : the house, the hotel, and the child
William Trevor : "they were as good as we were"
Listening to Irish traditional music
Flann O'Brien : no laughing matter
Brian Friel : transcending the Irish national pastime
Seamus Heaney's "middle voice"
Derek Mahon : exile and stranger
The future of Irish poetry?
Mount Stewart : its gardens, house, and family
W.B. Yeats : the labyrinth of another's being
Looking for Yeats in Yeats country
From Venice to Tipperary.