Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Recently I acquired a copy of Padráig de Brún’s translation into Irish of “Inferno”. de Brún translated the whole Divine Comedy. The fly jacket of my copy states that “it…
An essay worth reading in full on Facebook which contains this amusing footnote: Facebook already had a huge amount of information about people and their social networks and their professed…
There’s a fascinating and – to use an overused phrase – thought-provoking piece in the LRB by David Bromwich about free speech. The early sections deal with the Rushdie affair…
Séamus Sweeney 