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'He has all the essayist's a clear, strong prose, a fascination with everyday affairs and their significance sub specie aternitatis, a readiness to generalize, the ability to digress without wandering from the point, to inform without pedantry and enlighten without condescension, to give us pleasure simply by sharing his thoughts.' -- Hugh Bredin This volume contains an essential selection of Hubert Butler's essays on Ireland, written over four reflective, autobiographical pieces which describe a local habitation and a place, but gravitate unerringly towards the great issues of the day - neutrality, partition, censorship, religion, nationalism. With his incisive considerations of individual and political identity, Butler joins the great tradition of Irish libertarians going back to Swift and Burke.
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John Banville's novels include The Book of Evidence, The Sea, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2005, and The Infinities. A new novel, Ancient Light, will be published in July. He was the recipient of the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize. Hubert Marshal Butler (2 October 1900 - 5 January 1991) was an Irish essayist who wrote on a wide-range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II
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