Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal explores the intense conflict between the Roman Catholic nationalist party and the Protestant British police forces of northern Ireland in the late 20th century. MacLaverty tells the story of Ireland’s most violent period...

Bernard Maclaverty’s Cal and Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother both present the larger conflicts of a country through the voice of a single protagonist. The violence plaguing the lands of both Northern Ireland and South Africa in the late 1900’s...

In Patrick Pearse’s search for recruits to the Volunteer Army, a year before the Easter Rising of 1916, he stated, “Whatever soul-searchings there may be among Irish political parties now or hereafter, we go on in the calm certitude of having done...