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“... It is hard to imagine Patrick Pearse chairing a finance committee. The former prime minister Garret FitzGerald, a writer and intellectual as well as a politician, is said to have remarked of a certain policy proposal: ‘That’s all right in practice, but will it work in theory?’ The Irish are an unsentimental bunch, and have much to be ...”

“... years of misunderstanding between Ireland and England (as, according to Mrs Thatcher’s memoirs, Garret FitzGerald did in talking to her), Foster’s book would be puzzling and not very helpful. There are continuities in Modern Ireland, but they are difficult to trace. His book, because of his command of detail, and his ability to construct a ...”

“... compositions, perhaps never even performed in Homer’s lifetime, but stored in a late Geometric garret and discovered after his death, like Webern’s late cantatas or Bach’s Art of Fugue. Curiously, although T.E. Lawrence had found Homer ‘bookish’ and ‘house-bred’, this line of thinking was never explored, but the question of orality began to ...”

“... leapt the strains upon the air. French children gazed in wonder – women left their washing.’ Fitzgerald’s ‘flappers’ flocked to Harlem in droves to dance to Duke Ellington’s music at the Savoy and the Cotton Club. Carl Van Vechten, whose novel Nigger Heaven helped to launch the ‘Harlem vogue’, wrote in In the ...”