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Emma Jane Unsworth: ‘I blush when I think of Miranda July’s All Fours. I became a changed woman’

The author of Slags on Patricia Highsmith, Judy Blume and her lifelong reaction to Yeats

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2025

A swan: ‘I have looked upon these brilliant creatures, and now my heart is sore’

This is my last column in this series. ‘Farewell, all joys!’

The Guardian - AU · Mar 24, 2025

Seamus Heaney: ten years after his death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

The Conversation · Dec 27, 2023

Aidan O'Brien's Kyprios pips Stradivarius in thrilling Goodwood Cup

O’Brien was winning the Goodwood showpiece for the third time, after the victories of Yeats in 2006 and 2008

Irish Mirror · Jul 26, 2022

Royal Ascot 2022: Kyprios strikes Gold for Aidan O'Brien

Aidan O'Brien's rising staying star takes the Group One feature on day three in Berkshire with three-time hero Stradivarious third in his bid for record-equalling fourth success

Liverpool Echo · Jun 16, 2022

Royal Ascot 2022 Day Three: Kyprios to strike Gold and deny Stradivarius a record win

Aidan O'Brien can take the Group One feature on day three in Berkshire while Whoputfiftyinyou, The Antarctic, Ouzo, Balhambar, History and Reach For The Moon may also triumph

Liverpool Echo · Jun 15, 2022

Don’t expect Alex Garland to explain what’s happening in ‘Men.’ But here are a few hints

Like the previous films he’s directed — 2014’s “Ex Machina” and 2018’s “Annihilation” — Alex Garland’s new folk-horror film “Men” has a lot going on underneath the surface: themes of gender and toxic masculinity, ancient signs and symbols, literary references to everything from the Bible to Yeats.

Los Angeles Times · May 20, 2022

With Sinn Féin’s victory, tectonic plates have shifted in Northern Ireland

In Yeats’s words, ‘all changed, changed utterly’

The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2022

Sebastian Barry: ‘I’m still not over Oliver Twist’

The writer on growing up with Puffin books, his changing attitude to Conrad, and the punk sensibility of Elizabeth Bowen

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022

My Dublin: The city according to Oisín Leahy Furlong of rock band Thumper

"I would go into the Palace Bar and imagine myself in lineage with Kavanagh and Yeats"

Dublin Live · Mar 7, 2022