Volume 35, Number 5 · March 31, 1988
The Quaking Bog
By Thomas Flanagan
We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature and Society
by Denis Donoghue
Knopf, 275 pp., $18.95
Denis Donoghue, who is among the most lucid and intellectually powerful of modern critics and literary theorists, does not tell us directly what he means by 'We Irish.' Certainly this is because the various occasions that have elicited these essays and reviews collected under the title would have made so personal a statement intrusive, and he is a writer of immense tact and grace, rarely moving between his subject and the scrutiny that he is instructing us to bring to bear upon it.
Review, 3373 words
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