This Saturday’s Irish Times features an essay by Colm Tóibín on why the mothers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce have always been elusive and mysterious; Niamh Donnelly on going to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre to write but ending up wrestling with the weight of failure and ambition; plus a host of reviews: Lucy McDiarmid on A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature; Kevin Gildea on The Other Irish Tradition: An Anthology edited by Rob Doyle; Julie Parsons on Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny; Dermot Bolger on Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne; Stephen Phillips on Becoming by Michelle Obama; Connal Parr on Northern Heist by Richard O’Rawe; Ed O’Loughlin on A Radical History of the World by Neil Faulkner; Martina Evans on If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura, translated by Eric Selland; Anthony Roche on George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed; Sarah Gilmartin on A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley; and John McAuliffe on new poetry colelctions by the late Matthew Sweeney, Michael O’Siadhail and Jane Robinson.

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