The year began darkly in Brazil. On January 1st, 2019, Jair Messias Bolsonaro was sworn in as President of the largest and richest nation in…
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C.V.: Your album is entitled ‘Instar’, meaning ‘a phase between two periods of moulting’, which might indicate that you are at a vulnerable stage in…
The Russian bear looms in the English-speaking imagination as savage and barbaric, but with a native cunning in need of taming. Throughout the nineteenth century…
Back to love and sex. Liking is preferable to loving – and less conducive to heartache. Youth is oblivious to that boring truth. The unbiddable…
As a freshly UK-embedded Irish barrister I am adjusting from confronting Ireland’s problems to addressing those of my new home. Worlds’apart, in a global village.…
How Irish Propaganda Operates Part I (HIPO I) identifies an ‘essential constituency’ of farmers, which offer an overwhelmingly preponderance of their support to representatives of…
In 1973, my first time here, I’d stood in wonder with my head strained back As dizzily I’d tried to see how high The buildings…
Dublin, October 1992. Well he hugged me and he said that it was time for a change. We need to get closer to nature, to…
Up to my retirement several years ago I taught spoken English at an agricultural university in North-East China. The routine was relieved by an assignment…
His eyes squint as the 6am light reflects off the plastic bags, cans and crisp packets of the Grand Canal. Portobello has never looked so…
I learned to drive in a field when I was five, from the same grandfather who taught me how to ride a horse and chew…
Salarium 230 million BCE – Ongoing – We are salted by the salt of this palace The Zechstein Sea is an ancient body of salt…
The other morning I was cutting through Dublin on the way to the national bus station. Having moved away from a cheap place in Vienna,…
Explaining the Shutdown with Trump’s Magic Eightball
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the…