Journeys of Displacement – a Personal Reflection
In October of 2013, a ship carrying hundreds of women, men and children, mainly from Eritrea and Ethiopia, sank off…
Coronavirus: a Silver Lining?
My colleagues are working flat out these days. After seeing our list of patients, we are on the phone and…
Review Bob Dylan’s – ‘Murder Most Foul’
I have been to four of Bob Dylan’s concerts in various places around the world, and bar one where Ronnie…
Artist of the Month – Keshet Zur
Poiesis, from the Ancient Greek: ποίησις meaning knowing by making, is ‘the activity in which a person brings something into…
Elemental Concepts and Sounds
In October 2016, I vacated my room in Dublin and moved to a cottage on the seaside in isolated, rural…
Poetry – Brendan McCormack
omeros is unforgiveable they come and they go fleeting wet bullets my bed has left me for another bed the…
Public Intellectual Series: Slavoj Žižek
No picture of the modern world is complete without a Marxist analysis. The fundamental point – even for anyone who…
Rugby: the Four Irish Provinces take to the Field
I yearn for Six Nations matches at this time of year. Despite my worthier self, I cannot take my eyes…
Vigilance Required Against ‘Seepage’ of Emergency Legislation in Ireland
On Thursday 19th of March, the Dáil passed emergency legislation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Health (Preservation and…
