the Dublin Review
Spring 2006
Two stories
A solicitous neighbour; and peculiar goings-on at a party [fiction]
On the Ferns Report
A chronicle of clerical abuse, cover-up and state inaction [review-essay]
Mad Tracey from Margate
A seaside town and its most notorious daughter [review-essay]
Natural and unnatural disasters
In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, is the civil war heating up? [travel]
Going inland
John McGahern’s story, re-told as fact [review-essay]
Human behaviour
Three German girls, a ‘Celtic’ boy, and lots of roasted vegetables [fiction]
The name of the game
A debt-ridden widow turns to a can’t-miss business: chips [fiction]