The Irish Art of ControversyNorth American customer should order from Cornell University Press. Controversies are high drama: in them people speak lines as colourful and passionate as any recited on stage. In the years before 1916, public battles were fought in Ireland over French paintings, Dublin slum children, and theatrical censorship. Controversy was popular, wrote George Moore, especially when accompanied with the breaking of chairs. In her new book, Lucy McDiarmid gives a

the title-essay

To the surface

first published in 1976

we have not a tent

the grey cloth donkey – creels full of real turf crumbs from the West – propped against the ormolu clock

letters and political writings

diaries and fragments opens up the broad panorama of his life to readers

followed by exile

while society has changed

and for the life of Tone himself

Hospitalized and awarded the Military Cross

we have not one guinea