Lebanon: Domestic Considerations May Prove Decisive to Hezbollah
Media coverage of the war currently unfolding in Lebanon describe Hezbollah as an “Iranian-backed” group, and frame the conflict as…
Ireland Urgently Requires a Covid Inquiry
It should be a source of embarrassment that in Ireland we still have had no public inquiry into the State’s…
The Nascent Age of the Self -Involved
One must begin by asking a begging question: is literary criticism, in Ireland, dead? Recently, reading Susan Sontag’s 1966 essay…
Rothko in Paris
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It’s very tiny – very tiny, content. Willem De…
Musician of the Month: Finn Doherty
Early Influences I tend to cite the same small handful of artists as my early influences, but I always find…
Poem: The First of February
The First of February Well, here’s a pile of puke on a bank of snow, Yoga-pants-purple, budget-cocktail-blue, Lava lurid as…
Ivor Browne R.I.P
It’s hard for those of us who work in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy to put into words how much…
My Team / Your Team
In the first part of his essay concerning his enduring lifelong fandom of Manchester City FC, and the club’s current…
The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 3
The remains of unquestionably the greatest intellect of the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, are buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.…