The ''Dublin Review of Books'' (''drb'') is an Irish review of literature, history, the arts, and culture.
The magazine publishes long-form essays exploring themes related to newly published books; shorter, more conventional book reviews; blog entries on a wider variety of topics; and short extracts from books that highlight their broader arguments.
History
Established in 2006, the ''drb'' launched its first full issue as an online quarterly review in Spring 2007. Founded and jointly edited by Enda O'Doherty, an ''
Irish Times'' journalist, and Maurice Earls, the proprietor of Books Upstairs bookshop in Dublin, it is consciously modelled on its near-namesakes, the ''
New York Review of Books'' and the ''
London Review of Books''. The magazine aims to provide writers with a forum to develop their arguments and share knowledge in longer review-essays than those found in conventional newspapers and magazines. Along with ''
The Dublin Review'', ''
The Honest Ulsterman'', ''
The Stinging Fly
''The Stinging Fly'' is a literary magazine published in Ireland, featuring short stories, essays, and poetry. It publishes two issues each year. In 2005, ''The Stinging Fly'' moved into book publishing with the establishment of The Stinging Fly ...
'', ''
Poetry Ireland Review'' and various other titles, it is one of a number of periodicals to have contributed to a boom in Irish literary journals over the past decade.
Since Autumn 2012, the ''drb'' has been published fortnightly online, with additional material published between each issue in the form of shorter blog posts.
Contributors
Since the magazine's inception, many notable writers, poets, academics, diplomats, and politicians from Ireland and further afield have contributed to it.
Previous contributors have included:
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John Banville
William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry J ...
, novelist
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Paul Bew
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 22 January 1950), is a British historian from Northern Ireland and a life peer. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has ...
, historian and life peer
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Angela Bourke, historian and novelist
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John Bruton
John Gerard Bruton (born 18 May 1947) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1994 to 1997, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States from 2004 to 2009, Leader of Fine Gael from 1990 to 2001, Leader ...
, former
Taoiseach of Ireland and EU Ambassador to the United States
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Mary E. Daly
Mary Elizabeth Daly, is an Irish historian and academic. She is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. From 2014 to 2017, she served as the President of the Royal Irish Academy.
Academic career
Daly studied history an ...
, economic historian
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Seamus Deane, poet, novelist, critic, and intellectual historian
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Terry Eagleton, British critic and literary theorist
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Marianne Elliott, historian
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Ronan Fanning, historian and commentator
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Joschka Fischer, former Foreign Minister and
Vice Chancellor of Germany
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Roy Foster, historian
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Tom Garvin
Tom Christopher Garvin (born 1944) is an Irish political scientist and historian. He is Professor Emeritus of Politics in University College Dublin. He retired from lecturing duties in August 2008. He is an alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson Internat ...
, political scientist and historian
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Nicola Gordon Bowe, British art historian
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David Goodall, British diplomat and former High Commissioner to India
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Adrian Hardiman
Adrian Hardiman (21 May 1951 – 7 March 2016) was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2016.
Early life and education
Adrian Hardiman was born on 21 May 1951, in Coolock, Dublin. His father was a teacher and Pre ...
, member of the
Supreme Court of Ireland
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Eckhard Jesse, German political scientist
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Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist, photographer, poet, and author
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Philip MacCann
Philip MacCann is a British author.
Born in Manchester, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia under Malcolm Bradbury. His first book, ''The Miracle Shed'' (1995), a collection of ...
, British author
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Lara Marlowe, American journalist
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Frank McGuinness, writer
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (; born 1942) is an Irish poet and academic. She was the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–19).
Biography
Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942. She is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuille ...
, poet
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Conor O'Clery, journalist and writer
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Joseph O'Connor, novelist
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Cormac Ó Gráda, economic historian
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Eunan O'Halpin, historian
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Brendan O'Leary, political scientist
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Kevin O'Rourke,
Chichele Professor of Economic History at
Oxford University and Fellow of
All Souls College, Oxford
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Siobhán Parkinson, writer
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Pat Rabbitte, former
Labour Party politician and minister
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Ivor Roberts, former British diplomat
References
Further reading
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, title=Space to Think: Ten Years of the Dublin Review of Books
External links
Official website
Biweekly magazines
Book review magazines
English-language magazines
Literary magazines published in Ireland
Political magazines published in Ireland
Magazines established in 2007
Mass media in Dublin (city)
2007 establishments in Ireland