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Norman Gash On An Intelligent Man's Guide

There was a time when writing on Ireland seemed little more than recriminations between Irish and English. In that field the Irish, never a reticent race, usually had the best......

Norman On Ireland: Two Views

Joseph Lee on a historiographical curiosity Two of the fundamental assumptions underlying the treatment of the Irish ques- tion in English historiography from Carlyle to W. A.......

Auberon Waugh On New Novels

MF Anthony Burgess (Cape £1.60) Any week which produces a new novel by Anthony Burgess must be ringed in gold on the reviewers' calendar. His latest is about word games and......