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In recent months, I have been making my way through the four volumes of Samuel Beckett’s letters. As ever, I’m struck by his humanity, humour and kindness, traits somewhat at odds with his austere and semi-mythical public image. But I…

When Mary Robinson was president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, immigration was nowhere near the top of the political agenda. In fact, in the first four years of her term, more people left Ireland than entered the country. It…