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“... understand why any female artist would settle for a lesser realm. As her latest biographer, Catherine Hewitt, writes: ‘Rosa never called for equality; she ensured that her work earned her that right.’Where did this sense of exceptional vocation come from? Most historians have stressed the influence exercised by her father, the portraitist ...”

“... Fortunately there were whistle-blowers. And there was the Barbadian high commissioner Guy Hewitt, who mobilised the Commonwealth prime ministers to challenge Theresa May, as well as a number of supportive MPs, refugee and migrant centre workers, black activists such as Patrick Vernon, and the Guardian, which gave space to Gentleman’s stories over a ...”

“... Peadar O’Donnell. It attracted an eclectic range of contributors: Elizabeth Bowen, John Hewitt, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Hubert Butler, Flann O’Brien, Liam O’Flaherty and others. ‘Cannot we all meet, throwing in what we have?’ Bowen wrote in her essay ‘The Big House’, published in the Bell’s first issue. The magazine ...”