The Geometer Lobachevsky'When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology.' It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, a Glav Torf mathematician and great grandson of his illustrious namesake, is aiding Bord na Mna by surveying a bog in the Irish Midlands. Far from home, he studies the locals and the land. One afternoon, soon after he arrives, he

censorship and freedom of speech

'- SARA BAUME

Rory de Valera

During the 1960s he taught at Stratford College (the Dublin Jewish School) and in the USA

were not very successful and were badly maintained

the significance of his plays

Among those abandoned adherents of a lost cause were the unionists in the south and the west of Ireland

John Moriarty

Poetry flows from his pen as he sits chairbound among his trees and flora

The Indignant Muse also includes 177 musical airs and 136 illustrations

Lobachevsky may not be a great genius but he is not foolish: he recognises a death sentence when he sees one and leaves to go into hiding on a small island in the Shannon estuary

Dostoevsky