

    The Sorry Earthmen of Bohemia

    Alena Dvořáková

    The Return to Helicon

    Aidan O’Malley
    There has been a long tradition of classical rewritings in Ireland, with a significant surge from about 1970, when the last generation to undergo compulsory Classics at school found in Greek myth a valuable resource to consider the troubles and conflicts of their own era.

    Starving Them Out

    Martin Tyrrell
    The naval blockade of Germany during the First World War is a subject that is little treated today. Yet estimates of civilian deaths caused by it range from around 400,000 to more than three-quarters of a million. Not until there were German signatures on the Treaty of Versailles was it fully lifted.

    Counsel for Humanity

    Pádraig McAuliffe
    Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, two of the fathers of modern international law, spent significant time in what is now the Ukrainian city of Lviv. A cultured oasis of Habsburg culture before the First World War, the city would change hands eight times between 1914 and 1944.

    Once Upon a Space

    Luke Gibbons

    An Irish Impresario

    Martin Greene
    Augustin Daly was for thirty years the proprietor-manager of one of New York’s most successful theatre companies. Shaw castigated Daly for his failure to embrace the Ibsenite problem play in the 1890s but recognised that the plays he did produce were advanced for their time.

    The Integrity of the Past

    Donal Moloney