Stimulus of SinAthlone born writer John Broderick was an astringent commentator on the rapidly shifting mores of Ireland from the 1950s to the 1980s. Better known for his novels, he was also a prolific reviewer and essayist. This new collection brings together a fascinating and eclectic selection of his book reviews and other journalism, as well as some previously unpublished short fiction. Between 1956 and 1988 Broderick produced over three hundred review columns

of attempts at film-making

’ So begins the title essay by Eoin O’Brien

which led to the hospital’s historic admission of negligence in the High Court

their watchful manservant and an ambitious young doctor prepare for a pilgrimage to Lourdes

medieval morality plays and the Mandukya Upanishads guide us along ancestral trails in dialogue with ‘the great tradition’

Crombie began a four year journey

Including twenty-four illustrations and fifty annotated letters

Voices from a JournalÊby Bill Naughton \n \nWith a foreword by Brendan Kennelly

the Easter Rising begins to cast divisive shadows across the country

Dublin Made Me

and must face a new identity of her own

before becoming Chief Executive in 1981 and Chairman ESB in 1991