An Irish Poet Attains Greatness
I am sticking my neck out to declare: Micheal O’Siadhail’s book-length poem, The Five Quintets, is…
Browsing: History and Economics
Pandora’s Slippery Box
It is difficult to speak of abstract forces without personalising them, or investing them, magically,…
Ancient Irish Sagas
The following is a short retelling and interpretation of a number of Irish sagas, including…
The Origins of Poetic Creation
We can only imagine how poetry entered human consciousness. I intuit that its emergence was…
History’s Dead Hand on the Middle East
Last month’s opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem served to re-ignite Palestinian rage against…
Big Plans in Little Jerusalem
June 1985: I was at work in my garden shed, when I heard someone talking.…
Venezuela Sinks in the ‘Excrement of the Devil’
It is as if anyone writing about Venezuela must pass through the red channel, for…
Could Torture Ever be ‘Right’?
The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as CIA Director is a sign of a growing…
Post-Modern Decrepitude
If you are complaining about Climate Change, Brexit, Donald Trump, and all the cozening of…
Twosome Twiminds in Casement and Joyce
Where to begin the story of Roger Casement, humanitarian crusader, knight of the British realm,…