The Dublin Review, Number 8: Autumn 2002

Harry Browne Barrier methodsHow the Irish state uses racial profiling to control immigration at its borders [reportage]Ciaran Carson In the ear of the beholderGeorge Petrie and the Irish musical tradition [review-essay]Seamus Heaney Sixth sense, seventh heavenOn writing, and revising, ‘Squarings’ [essay]Michael Hofmann On translating Joseph RothFourteen years and seven books on, a translator writes about bringing a master into English [essay]Molly McCloskey On getting paid to read the TLSA year and a half reading periodicals and ‘spending all day writing things that never get into print’ [journal]Derek Mahon Yeats and the lights of DublinFrom ‘gloomy, Victorian’ Belfast, a young poet feels the lure of literary Dublin [memoir]Christopher Matthews Five poems‘Nanny’, ‘Husband’, ‘Wife’, ‘Child and Mother’, ‘Poet’Eunan O’Halpin What the British knewNewly published documents show that British intelligence in the War of Independence was more robust than generally believed [review-essay]Caitríona O’Reilly Purple murderThe fictions of Eoin McNamee [essay]Keith Ridgway FirstlyAn extract from The PartsJennifer Varney Flight pathAn invasion of migratory birds, and ‘some kind of emergency’ for a man and a woman [fiction]