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Picture this scene. Next to a Martello tower, a grimy concrete shelter below which a…
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.
Picture this scene. Next to a Martello tower, a grimy concrete shelter below which a…
THE LONG READ: Ireland is neither a totalitarian state, nor even a dictatorship. Nonetheless, the…
There will ultimately occur conflagration of the whole world … nothing will remain but fire,…
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At a festival recently I fell into the company of an exuberant character in his…
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We have not slain our enemy, the cancer cell, or figuratively torn the limbs from…
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It is as if anyone writing about Venezuela must pass through the red channel, for…
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