4 DECEMBER 1971, page 14

Joseph Lee On Modern Ireland

The contrasts between the two states on Irish soil constitute one of the more intriguing peripheral paradoxes of recent history. The Scots-Irish now cling so stubbornly to a......

Lettered Barbarians

Barbara Hardy In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-Definition of Culture George Steiner (Faber £1.75) In Bluebeard's Castle is exquisitely responsive to its title,......