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Leap in the Dark

Patrick Cockburn, 9 July 2026

For and against a United Ireland 
by Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride.
Royal Irish Academy, 200 pp., £18, October 2025, 978 1 80205 035 6
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... can live with unity or Union,’ the Northern Ireland editor of the Belfast Telegraph, Sam McBride, writes. ‘Even if the economic claims turn out to be wrong, I can live with being poorer. But I don’t want to live, and I don’t want my children to live, with civil war or anything approaching it.’Together with Fintan O’Toole, a ...

Thunder in the Mountains

J. Hoberman: Orson Welles, 6 September 2007

Orson Welles: Hello Americans 
by Simon Callow.
Vintage, 507 pp., £8.99, May 2007, 978 0 09 946261 3
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What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career 
by Joseph McBride.
Kentucky, 344 pp., $29.95, October 2006, 0 8131 2410 7
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... in so many different ways. In his biographical memoir, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?, Joseph McBride depicts Welles as a multimedia dynamo who worked in ‘radio, theatre, vaudeville, television, recordings, magic, oratory and journalism’. More than that, he was the first American artist to take ‘the media’ as his medium. (In this, Welles ...

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