Red plague

Reinventing Ireland from afar

Featured in

  • Published 20200804
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-50-4
  • Extent: 304pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

You taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!

Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2

Already a subscriber? Sign in here

If you are an educator or student wishing to access content for study purposes please contact us at griffithreview@griffith.edu.au

Share article

About the author

Michael Cooney

Michael Cooney is author of The Gillard Project (Penguin, 2015) and was speechwriter to Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He was senior adviser at the...

More from this edition

The skies of Middle Europe

GR OnlinePrague. A mess of absinthe shops and pork knuckles, but just as much, the driveway where Heydrich’s son was run over outside the castle, and the bullet-shredded window of the basement of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral where Heydrich’s assassins hid (before the inevitable).

The tyranny of closeness

Essay I REMEMBER ENTERING Krakow for the first time, in 1995. I’d arrived at the train station via Paris, Berlin, Prague and Budapest – cities where...

Stranger than the dreams of Ptolemy

Essay Although Europeans had believed in the symmetry of the two hemispheres for nearly two centuries, they silently forgot the idea. They tolerantly accepted that...

Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review.