Yeats and Beckett, Guarding the Irish Coast From Drug Runners The Irish Navy’s small fleet of warships may be named for celebrated poets and playwrights, but its mission is anything but whimsical, as a record seizure of cocaine from a cargo ship showed.
In ‘Joyce’s Women,’ 2 Great Irish Writers Square Up Edna O’Brien’s latest stage work, at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, imagines the inner lives of important female figures around James Joyce.