{"id":3697,"date":"2026-05-05T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:02:52","slug":"dublin-review-of-books-spring-2026-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/dublin-review-of-books-spring-2026-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Review of Books \u2013 Spring 2026 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3940_10e5a2-e3_0\"><strong>Dublin Review of Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading3940_10e5a2-e3_0 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3940_10e5a2-e3_0\">About&nbsp; \u2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading3940_10e5a2-e3_0 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3940_10e5a2-e3_0\">The &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/\">Dublin Review of Books<\/a>&#8216; was founded in Spring 2007 as an online journal offering a space for reflection on literature, history, arts, society, politics and culture. It publishes long-form essays and shorter pieces, in both cases usually tied to recently published books. It is free.<\/p>\n<p>The Spring 2026 issue \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Includes <strong>John Alderdice<\/strong> on biographies of John Hume and David Trimble, a new poem from <strong>Eil\u00e9an N\u00ed Chuillean\u00e1in<\/strong>, <strong>Stefan Collini<\/strong> on James Bryce\u2019s once great reputation, <strong>Quassim Cassam<\/strong> on bullshit, <strong>Lynsey Black<\/strong> on Presbyterian piety and promiscuity, <strong>Lori Allen<\/strong> on the plight of Palestinians and other strangers, <strong>Eoin O\u2019Malley<\/strong> on the enigma of Leo Varadkar, <strong>Ruby Eastwood<\/strong> on the young Virginia Woolf, <strong>Maurice Earls<\/strong> on the rise, fall and possible revival of Irish Catholicism, our new <em>Rereadings<\/em> series featuring&nbsp;Allan Bloom\u2019s <strong><em>The Closing of the American Mind<\/em><\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n<p>From the editors \u2013&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is the first of <strong>four issues<\/strong> coming out this year. Each season will bring a new <em>drb<\/em> issue offering original, engaging copy on a broad range of themes from the arts and imaginative literature to history, politics and ideas. Blogs will continue to be published between issues, as reflected in the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/blogs\/\">series of blogs<\/a> published on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>The next issue \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Due out in early June and will include <strong>Edna Longley<\/strong> on Seamus Heaney, <strong>Luke Gibbons<\/strong> on John McGahern, a new poem by <strong>James Harpur, <\/strong>and <strong>Ruth Harris <\/strong>looking back at her awarding-winning history of the Dreyfus affair, discovering new and fascinating parallels with our times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin Review of Books About&nbsp; \u2013 The &#8216;Dublin Review of Books&#8216; was founded in Spring 2007 as an online journal offering a space for reflection on literature, history, arts, society, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/dublin-review-of-books-spring-2026-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dublin Review of Books \u2013 Spring 2026 issue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dublin-review-of-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}