The Passenger: Ireland

The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Ireland—in the series that’s “like a literary vacation” ( Publishers Weekly ). Ireland is a land full of charm and conflict, a country that in just a few decades has gone from being a poor, semi-theocratic society to a thriving economy free from the influence of the Catholic Church. With the 1998 peace agreements, the conflict between nationalists and unionists seemed, if not resolved, at least dormant. But Brexit—with the ambi