But Ireland is a country where history matters - and whose history inescapably involves Britain too.
For law, in the charged atmosphere of Boston in the late seventeen-sixties and seventies, with redcoats patrolling the streets and customs men boarding vessels in the bay, was inescapably involved in issues of resistance and authority.
There are radio voices that become like family you listen to them so often – they are household sounds – and, as with family, you are occasionally irritated but always and inescapably involved.
The genre inescapably involves a procession of the various human types, the most conspicuous in Mr. Theroux's new novel being Buddy Hamstra, a rich, lovably (and not so lovably) deranged voluptuary who owns the hotel where the ex-writer works.
Productive pursuit of this topic has inescapably involved a spectrum of political, cultural, personal, and interpersonal factors that are normally not encountered in more conventional scientific scholarship, but have both enriched and complicated the enterprise in many ways.
But we act according to reasons as well as neurological causes, and reasons are a question of meaning, which in turn involves the inescapably creative business of interpretation.
Any compensation proposition is inescapably arbitrary – financially arbitrary in the precise sum set, and perhaps morally arbitrary in that it would involve contemporary Britons who have never bought slaves, atoning for long-dead Britons who did.
At the same time, it is clear that Sri Lanka is inescapably important for India; domestic troubles there involving the country's Tamil minority inevitably spill across the straits to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, while a hostile government in Colombo exposes India's soft underbelly to exploitation by its strategic rivals, notably China and Pakistan.
Plays need audiences to work; plays inescapably are popular entertainment.
