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    The Other Great Troubadour

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    Poetry: Chay Bowes

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Current Affairs
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Old Headscarf

At thirty-two, after decades of sporting a headscarf, I abandoned the practice and exposed my bad hair days. There was…

  • April 13, 2021
    Mandatory Hotel Quarantine Alienates Immigrant Communities
  • April 3, 2021
    Rule of Law Backsliding in Rogue EU States
  • March 31, 2021
    Brazil’s Pandemic Reaches Crisis Point
Science & Environment
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‘Healthy People Do Not Require Genetic Vaccination’

Editor’s Note: Having previously published Vaccination: A Matter of Trust with Caveats, we now anticipate objections from some readers to…

  • February 4, 2021
    Covid-19 in Ireland: Landfall
  • December 17, 2020
    By Hook or By Crook
  • November 11, 2020
    Covid-19: Questioning the Three Mantras
Society & Culture
April 22, 2021 0

The Other Great Troubadour

Unlike Bob Dylan who is still actively making music, Leonard Cohen has not released a new song from beyond the…

  • April 15, 2021
    Crappy Sleeper
  • March 6, 2021
    Back in the DDR
  • March 4, 2021
    The Classical World in Video Games
Arts
April 3, 2021 0

Featured Artist Annelie Carlström

I have always been a creative person. When I was a child I loved to draw and cut paper, my…

  • March 11, 2021
    Featured Artist Michal Greenboim
  • February 26, 2021
    Featured Artist: Imelda O’Reilly
  • January 30, 2021
    Featured Artist – Emily Mannion
Music
April 2, 2021 0

Musician of the Month: Ellie O’Neill

I’ve never needed a reason to write a song. There have never been any conscious considerations of failure or success…

  • March 8, 2021
    ‘It’s not a case of men vs women’: Mise Fosta in Irish Trad
  • March 1, 2021
    Musician of the Month: Judith Retzlik
  • February 25, 2021
    The Hero’s Journey
Literature
April 20, 2021 0

Head Shop

Tedium was tip tapping on the pane of Gibbo’s day, the hours slouching into another shite night alone, like the…

  • April 19, 2021
    Poetry: Chay Bowes
  • April 14, 2021
    L’Homme et … la Merde!
  • April 12, 2021
    Winter When Thy Face is Hid
History and Economics
April 6, 2021 0

COVID-19: Virtual Work a Bridge Too Far?

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle, The Nicomachean…

  • March 25, 2021
    Public Intellectuals: Hannah Arendt
  • February 14, 2021
    Chambí’s World: Martín Chambi (1891-1973)
  • February 3, 2021
    Tales from a Fourth Industrial Revolution
Sport
February 22, 2020 0

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…

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    Not in Our Name – the Fall and Fall of Conor McGregor
  • December 19, 2018
    ‘Don’t let me stop you from going for a swim’
  • September 7, 2018
    The Limits of Artificial Intelligence
Law
April 5, 2021 0

Unenumerated Constitutional Rights Erode Irish Democracy

When the Federal Convention of 1878 had completed its work on the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin described its…

  • December 9, 2020
    Irish Prison Reform Long Overdue
  • October 21, 2020
    Amy Coney Barrett and “Originalism”
  • June 17, 2020
    Enforcing Environmental Rights
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