It started as a simple idea for an on-line literary review. But when it dawned on us that there were (there are still) too many of them around, a simple idea became a complicated headache. But we remained undaunted. We began to look for how we could fit in and be able to stand apart from the crowd.

As we were nibbling with this idea in 2004, Ireland was celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses.

It was then we realised that in the literary world whatever any novel or play pretends to do today, it is following the precedents set by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce in his Ulysses and Samuel Barclay Beckett in his Waiting for Godot. These were two great artists who ventured beyond the boundary of the narrative convention and set a new standard for literature by their unique stylistic techniques.

We became more excited--Joyce and Beckett were not just Irish, but Dubliners. Thereafter, Dublin became, in our humble opinion, not just a geographical entity, but a symbolic gesture for asserting the uninhibited creative imagination of man.

With this new insight, we decided on an on-line literary review that would:

• Testify to the creative ingenuity and innovation of these two Irish geniuses and
• Aim at the deployment of unique narrative style and technique to create a newness that would confound--academics would call it post-modernism.

the Dublin Quarterly, an International Literary Review that emerges thereof, is a search for the ideal in creative imagination, catering for the creative need of those who prefer to see familiar things with unfamiliar eyes. * * *