
Covid-19: A Flawed Consensus
Covid is a nightmare from which we are still trying to awake. But whether the…
Frank Armstrong graduated with a BA (International) from UCD majoring in history, during which time he spent a year at the University of Amsterdam on an Erasmus scholarship. He later earned a barrister-at-law degree at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, and gained a Masters in Islamic Societies and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, before taking a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education. Prior to setting up Cassandra Voices his writing was published in the Irish Times, the London Magazine, the Dublin Review of Books, Village Magazine, and the Law Society Gazette, among others. He is the editor-in-chief of Cassandra Voices.
Covid is a nightmare from which we are still trying to awake. But whether the…
We are sodden with fake news, hyped-up and incomplete information, and false assertions delivered non-stop…
A new book COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Bloomsbury,…
Irish Times health correspondent Paul Cullens reported on February 13, 2023 that a disturbing 1,300…
In 1841 the population of county Leitrim stood at 155,297. By 1901, however, it had…
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climactic Regime (2018) by the recently deceased French…
According to the recently deceased Kevin Higgins: ‘Poets may be divided into three types: those…
Despite all the controversies in the run-up, and as with the last World Cup in…
Not since Byron awoke one morning to find himself famous has there been such an…
The music was the code. It was the transliteration of the style. It was not…
Deities or daimons held strong associations with the cities of Classical Rome and Greece, projecting…
Standing outside a Dublin hostelry in the drizzle, I fell into conversation with an Ulsterman…
‘Harold Evans used to say that an investigation only really began to count once the…
‘I have never met a man so in love with the written word – provided…
This is the first of two articles occasioned by the recent publication of Periodicals and…
Robert Fisk wrote: ‘we journalists try – or should try – to be the first…
Patrick Freyne’s satirical 2020 Irish Times article ‘It is now late-period Dermot Bannon. He is…
As events in Ukraine demonstrate, ineluctably, war diminishes our humanity, possessing men – and mostly…
It’s easy to despair in the face of our species’ (homo sapiens: ‘wise man’) apparent…
Frank Armstrong recalls two overland trips into Ukraine in 2015. The first was through the…