Originally Published in Print, February 2023. Almost three years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the National Gallery of Ireland announced an exhibition courtesy of the Tate Gallery in London: nearly ninety artworks by J.M.W. Turner on display in … Continue reading The Exuberant One A Review of Turner: The Sun is God in the National Gallery of Ireland.
PHOTO: Genevieve Hulme-Beaman as Lucia Joyce and Stephen Hogan as James Joyce in Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Edna O’Brien’s involvement with James Joyce began far earlier than her publication of James and Nora in 1981, and her subsequent … Continue reading Edna O’Brien’s ‘Joyce’s Women’ // Abbey Theatre Review Joyce’s Women ought to have been titled Joyce Framed by his Women
In 2016, Mike McCormack published Solar Bones through Dublin’s own Tramp Press, effectively setting the story of Marcus Conway (Stanley Townsend) into motion. An experimental novel immediately met with high acclaim, Solar Bones became the third most sold Irish … Continue reading Mike McCormack’s Irish novel Solar Bones adapted for the Abbey The experimental Irish novel’s transition to the stage