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Bust-up in New York over museum exhibition

An exhibition on the history of the Irish in New York, due to open in March 1996 at the Museum of the City of New York, has been dogged by controversy before it has even opened. The row was sparked last year when a respected Irish-American scholar Marion Casey was replaced as guest curator. But … Read more

Visions and Revisions

In a short poem composed near the end of his life, W.B. Yeats wrote: ‘Out of Ireland we have come. /Great hatred, little room, /Maimed us from the start’. Over sixty years later, Yeats’s despair (or statement of fact), has maintained its relevance for understanding Ireland, and will continue to do so for years to … Read more