''The Dublin Review'' is a quarterly

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that publishes

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s, reportage,

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writing,

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and

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. It was launched in December 2000 by Brendan Barrington, who remains the editor and publisher, assisted by Nora Mahony and then Deanna Ortiz in 2013. An anthology of

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pieces from the magazine, ''The Dublin Review Reader'', appeared in 2007. The magazine has been noted for the range of its contributors, which includes new writers from Ireland and elsewhere. In his introduction to the ''Reader'', Brendan Barrington wrote:

"If forced to articulate a governing idea behind the magazine, I might offer this: that the essay in its various guises is every bit as much an art form as the short story or poem, and ought to be treated as such."

The magazine is presented "in book form, with minimal design, the writing presented without adornment, without any introduction, explanation of setting, background or even the usual obvious pointers to whether the piece is fiction or non-fiction". Along with '' The Dublin Review of Books'', '' 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 ...

'', 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. Editor Brendan Barrington is also Senior Editor at Penguin Ireland, a division of the

Penguin Group Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. The new company was created by a merger that was finalised on 1 July 2013, with Bertelsmann initia ...

Notable contributors

* Benedict Anderson *

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 ...

* Sebastian Barry *

Ciarán Carson Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Biography Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, wo ...

* Amit Chaudhuri * Anne Enright *

Diarmaid Ferriter Diarmaid Ferriter (born February 1972) is an Irish historian, broadcaster and university professor. He has written eleven books on the subject of Irish history, and co-authored another. Ferriter attended St. Benildus College in Kilmacud in Dub ...

* Roy Foster *

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

* Michael Hofmann * Kathleen Jamie *

Claire Keegan Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''Best American Short Stories'', ''Granta'', and ''The Paris Review''. Biography Born in County Wicklow in 1968, Keegan i ...

* Derek Mahon * Patrick McGrath * Paul Muldoon * Dervla Murphy *

Cees Nooteboom Cees Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel ''Rituelen'' (''Rituals'', 1980), which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into ...

* Andrew O’Hagan *

Glenn Patterson Glenn Patterson (born 1961) is a writer from Belfast, best known as a novelist. Biography Patterson was born in Belfast where he attended Methodist College Belfast. He graduated from the University of East Anglia (BA, MA), where he was a produc ...

* Tim Robinson *

Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín (, approximately ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, '' The South'', was published in 1990. ''The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlist ...

References

External links

''The Dublin Review''
* Elborough, Travis
'The first shall be last'
''The Guardian'' (18 December 2003) * Fuller, Graham, ‘In This Corner, a Leftist, Riling the Right Again’, ''New York Times'' (4 March 2007) * Kenny, John, ‘Breaking the book fetish’, ''Irish Times'' (25 March 2006) * Weiland, Matt,‘The Most Zestful Spectacle’, ''New York Times'' (21 November 2008) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dublin Review, The English-language magazines Literary magazines published in Ireland Magazines established in 2000 Quarterly magazines Mass media in Dublin (city)