Anarchy and AuthorityFrom the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy, intrigue, innovation and international radical political movements, the reverberations of which are still felt in both Ireland and the former territories of the Russian empire today. In Anarchy and Authority, readers follow contemporaneous accounts of Irish men

In 1974 he edited The Faber Book of Irish Verse and his anthology Bitter Harvest appeared in America in 1989

making or at least trying to make fresh starts

mirroring his own desires and uncertainties

Banville and Sayers

Although she writes from her nerve-ends

even legalistic

we have not a tent

Encouraged by her remarkable father

Irish Examiner

Munster and Ulster

I look to see what sites might be explored en route

others mysteriously bettering themselves on well-nigh invisible means