The Nascent Age of the Self -Involved
One must begin by asking a begging question: is literary criticism, in Ireland, dead? Recently,…
'Neil Burns is forty-five. He is Northern Irish by birth. He has been published in The London Magazine, The Honest Ulsterman, The Rialto, and The Agonist Literary Journal (a US-based online journal). He enjoys cheese & ham toasties. And the work of James Joyce. He eschews cliches by the cartload.'
One must begin by asking a begging question: is literary criticism, in Ireland, dead? Recently,…
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many…
This piece is not intended to provoke. It is more a look at the way…
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore…
Belfast writer, and poet, Ciaran Carson carried a black flute with silver keys on its…
In the insular, it felt like it at times, enforced statelet of Northern Ireland, sexual…
Try to envisage Odysseus, on stiff headland, on the Western Atlantic coast of Ireland, tilling…
I have a mild neurosis, situated in Utopian wish-fulfillment, of the ideal that I often…
Picture the scene: the small backyard of a tiny working-class pub in Belfast at around…
In Ireland, North and South, the Arts Sector, currently, is a sinecure. Those middle-class mentalities…
Does an age of frenetic online activity afford time for literary masterpieces, especially Outsider Novels,…
Levi ‘Lev’ Driscoll, wrote the odd sentence or two when creativity revealed itself to him.…
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. Aeschylus…
For Daniel and Others ‘Is Heroin still a thing in Dublin?’ The academic, and Professor…