‘The Tablet and the Irish have often struggled to understand each other’

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Graham Greene’s name began to appear in the books pages in 1936. John Dos Passos was dismissed as a “heavy-handed Socialist Galsworthy”. When Greene’s friend Tom Burns became editor in 1967, he told him the paper’s books pages had declined. “It does seem rather a waste of space to give up everything to enthusiastic reviews of Morris West.” A few years later, Burns published Greene’s stories about a Spanish priest called Father Quixote, inspired by his holiday travels with Father Leopoldo Durán, which were to become the basis of his final novel, Monsignor Quixote. Photograph: Obsever/Hulton|Archive

There was just the one letter in the first issue of The Tablet, dated May 16th, 1840, and it touched on Irish affairs. “I am rejoiced to find that the Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland have at length an organ to communicate to the public facts of importance to the religious liberty of all classes.” It concluded, “I have the honour to be, Your obedient servant, Daniel O’Connell, Dublin.” Portrait: Sir David Wilkie, on loan to the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

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