Is That All There Is?In Is That All There Is?, it is boom time in Dublin, and Philip and Sam, a professional couple in banking and advertising gorged on vertiginous success, buy a run down monastery in a wealthy suburb. As they renovate their statement home and throw lavish parties to consolidate their social standing, cracks begin to appear in the designer fixtures, mirroring the disintegration of their marriage and a once solid moral scaffolding. William King pierces

Patrick Kavanagh

for whom she and her salon often represented the only common ground

they are grouped into four categories: buildings that no longer exist

based on extensive scrutiny of previously unused sources and informed by the author’s intimate knowledge of the culture and dialect of Trieste

exotic and often guilt-ridden

With spare

He hasn’t yet missed a day of letting me down

one of the foremost Irish poets of his generation and a prolific writer of radio plays

and a tale from south-west Donegal

to a requiem

The Beckett essays alone yield remarkable commentary on Ireland’s greatest early modernist

An intense depiction of the nature of friendship and loyalty