Alice Rekab: Family Lines
Just off Nassau Street, a cavernous concrete passageway leads into the modernist Arts Building at…
Browsing: Culture
Three Parables / Short Tales
ABOUT A GIRL AND HER DATE OF BIRTH Once upon a time, there lived a…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Irish Rail Dublin, that old whore, with her piss -stained pavements Abruptly transforms into a…
Smartphone usage is impacting society, but how?
Whether we’re regularly reading sports news or contributing to a comical WhatsApp group, many of…
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Poetry: Kevin Higgins
Memorial to Myself I have been away toasting tables lined with the pricier variety of…
Musician of the Month: Niamh McKinney
For a lot of my life I felt a fervent need to be doing something…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
Faking It When Cleopatra rolled Out of the rug, she thought: Don’t worry! Even if…
Poetry: Edward Clarke
At Rudy’s Bar, Alassio (After Thomas Hardy) – O how could I order that tuna…
Musician of the Month: John Buckley McQuaid
THIS IS WHERE I KEEP MY DREAMS I was born and raised in Dublin, in…
Girl Without Mercy
My father was a French lumberjack. That’s just a joke. People don’t always know I’m…
Theatre: The Battle of Kildare Place
There is no fiercer battle than that between sisters. The sibling tension is ever-present in…
Musician of the Month: Dan Trueman
In my studio here, I have a clavichord, built by my parents in 1971, with…
Featured Artist: Manar Al Shouha
How would you define yourself as an artist? In fact I feel more like a…
Ballad of Lucy Kryton
Ballad of Lucy Kryton “There will not be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime”,…
Adoring the Artifice of Paul Quin
Paul Francis Quin has proven himself an approachable enigma. The myriad glamour shots gracing the…
Ecstasy of Truth Finally Spoken
Kevin Higgins’s sixth poetry collection under the sardonic title Ecstatic starts with a dedication to…
Musician of the Month: Sebastian Reynolds
I have been passionate about music from a very young age. I felt an urge…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
Kyrie Rotten fruit, rotten root. Hands up Don’t shoot. Kyrie eleison. By the waters of…
And the Flesh was Made Word
Through Fernando Pessoa the flesh was made word. Reminiscent of the renowned Chinese painter Wu…