Edinburgh Review scan issue 120

Edinburgh Review 120: Causeway

Issue 120 focuses on the literature, culture, and history of Northern Ireland, the tricentenary of the Union, and explores issues of national and cultural identity. The issue features new work by renowned authors from Northern Ireland, such as Tom Paulin, Glenn Patterson, alongside work by lesser-known writers. As with previous issues, articles explore the historical, cultural, and literary connections between N. Ireland and Scotland.

FICTION

Trapped
Bernard MacLaverty

Trapped Again
Bernard MacLaverty

The Toilets at the End of the Hemisphere
Glenn Patterson

Molly Fox
Deirdre Madden

Ticking the Boxes
Ron Butlin

POETRY

Tom Paulin
Alan Gillis
Frank Ormsby
Fred Johnston
Leontia Flynn
Howard Wright
Medbh McGuckian
Sinéad Morrissey
Dawn Wood
Nick Laird
Kapka Kassabova

ARTICLES

A Terrible Beauty. Bernard MacLaverty and the short story of the Troubles
Matthew McGuire

Weeds and wild flowers
Eleanor Burnhill

On the Making of a Playwright
Brian McAvera

Renaissance Fisherman
Michael Faulkner

Stewart Parker’s Scottish Play
Marilynn Richtarik

Northern Ireland Troubles Archive
Andrea Rea

Irish Stories? Filming the Troubles
Eamonn Hughes

PHOTOGRAPHS

Lammas Fair Ballycastle
Alastair McCook

Belfast in the Seventies
John Gilbert

REVIEWS

Hannah Adcock
Ross Alloway
Margaret Bennett
Valentina Bold
Bernard Crick
Turo Delgado
Alasdair Gillon
Andy Gloege
Aaron Kelly
Stephen Lackaye
Michael Lister
Duncan Sim
Nigel Smith


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