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# Cassandra Voices

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## Posts

- [Musician of the Month: Garrett Sholdice](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-garrett-sholdice/) - For his first solo album, the Blue Light, Garrett Sholdice wanted to try to keep a sense of curated “coherence” even though it is essentially a compilation.
- [Musician of the Month: Evin O'Brien](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-evin-obrien/) - Having received an Arts Council Agility Award, Evin O'Brien has been merging Ethiopian music with Irish tunes, as he adds to his ever-expanding repertoire.
- [The Dying Nerve of the Liberal Class](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/the-dying-nerve-of-the-liberal-class/) - Julien Charles claims identity politics, first encouraged in the 1960s to counterbalance the Communist left without threatening profiteering, has run its course
- [Regulating Online Safety: Ireland v. U.K.](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/regulating-online-safety-ireland-v-u-k/) - Barrister David Langwallner compares Irish hate crime legislation to that being considered in the UK where protection of children is prioritised over censorship
- [When will Micheál Martin’s epitaph be written?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/when-will-micheal-martins-epitaph-be-written/) - Frank Armstrong commends Micheál Martin for laying out his political philosophy, but takes issue with his claim to occupying a 'liberal' middle ground.
- [Podcast: On Europe, Gender and Sh*tposting with Róisín Michaux](https://cassandravoices.com/podcast/ep-22-on-europe-gender-and-shtposting-with-roisin-michaux/) - Luke Sheehan in conversation with Róisín Michaux on Europe, gender, free speech, political culture, the EU and the role of internet shitposting.
- [The Ambiguous Hero](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-ambiguous-hero/) - From Homer's Odysseus to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, explore why the ambiguous hero remains one of literature's and cinema's most enduring figures
- [House of Women](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/house-of-women/) - "Her name was Fatima, just like her mother, my grandmother. But no one called her by it. She was always Omah .. another version of “mother” A memoir from Yemen
- [Featured Artist: Manar Al Shouha](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-manar-al-shouha/) - Manar Al Shouha reveals formative influences including an initially skeptical mother, a teacher who had no time for grades and her home city of Damascus.
- [Artist of the Month: Bordalo II](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/artist-of-the-month-bordalo-ii/) - The Dublin Red Squirrel was taken down last week. I’m not mad about that as I’m the first one to say that my work is ephemeral, just like everything in life. I also incentivate [sic] progress, rebuilding when necessary, the use of dead areas of towns to make something better, the rehabilitation of the abandoned
- [How Irish Propaganda Operates III – the Inversion of the Food Pyramid](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/how-irish-propaganda-operates-iii-the-inversion-of-the-food-pyramid/) - How Irish Propaganda Operates Part I (HIPO I) identifies an ‘essential constituency’ of farmers, which offer an overwhelmingly preponderance of their support to representatives of the political duopoly in rural constituencies. Upsetting this cohort frays a brittle alliance maintaining the dominant consensus of steady economic growth, and rising rents. As a result the media and
- [Can the European Project be Kept on Track?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/can-the-european-project-be-kept-on-track/) - Czech border police snoop along the rail carriage as we pass the frontier from Germany. They seem to linger outside our compartment long enough to survey the light pigmentation of the young Dutch couple and this Hiberno-Norman specimen inside, passing by without seeking identification. White skin remains a passport – carte blanche – to unspoken
- [In the Eye of the Storm](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/in-the-eye-of-the-storm/) - Breathe. Focus. It’s the biggest rapid I’ve ever run. I’ve spent half an hour scouting and visualising the perfect line. I’m as fit and sharp as I’ll ever be. Still the doubts enter my head. Why am I even doing this? The adrenaline has made me feel nauseous, and I try not think of the
- [Spain on Trial](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/spain-on-trial/)
- [Last Days in RTÉ – ‘I came to kill you’](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/last-days-in-rte-i-came-to-kill-you/) - In 1967, the fidgets struck again. That was the year my mother died, rapidly following my father. I confess now that I was not obviously upset by the deaths of my parents. In the culture of my generation and class, love, certainly any public expression of it, was an embarrassment. Such namby-pamby language was confined
- [Poem: 'Threshold City'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-threshold-city/) - ‘Inescapable’ might be the word for this verge, / as there’s nowhere beyond the golden city From 'Threshold City,' by Bartholomew Ryan a poem inspired by Prague
- [Musician of the Month: StrawMan](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-strawman/) - For Musician of the Month Strawman the discovering that a beautifully anthemic song could be constructed upon simple chords was a complete game changer.
- [“We the People” – A Response to Fintan O’Toole](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/we-the-people-a-response-to-fintan-otoole/) - Frank Armstrong challenges Fintan O'Toole's characterisation of the recent Fuel protests, and explores circumstances whether revolutions may be justified.
- [Phoenix Demise: What Next for Ireland?](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/phoenix-demise-what-next-for-ireland/) - When a magazine such as The Phoenix ceases to exist it leaves feelings of regret and glee behind, depending on who you speak to. Garreth Byrne has his say.
- [An Epitaph - Robert Stewart (“Castlereagh”), 1769-1822](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/an-epitaph-robert-stewart-castlereagh-1769-1822/) - A dramatic monologue in Castlereagh’s voice, defending state violence in 1798 Ireland while exposing the moral corruption, pride, and irony of his legacy.
- [Will You Come and Find Me?](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/will-you-come-and-find-me/) - This new fiction by Julian Hough contains a harrowing account of abuse in an institutional setting that some readers may find troubling.
- [Re-Learning to Bark: Canine Love and Loss](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/re-learning-to-bark-canine-love-and-loss/) - In A Sheepdog Named Oscar by Dara Waldron a dog recovers his bark and a man begins to come to terms with his father's passing.
- [Shaping Dublin's Urban Landscape](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/shaping-dublins-urban-landscape/) - Robert Grant argues that the aesthetic debate over the redevelopment of the Stephen's Green Shopping Centre does justice to the depth of outrage felt by Dublin residents
- [Poem: Irish Summer](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-irish-summer/) - "We agreed that a summer like this / Is worse than winter / Because it’s there in front of you / All evening long." From 'Irish Summer' by Frank Armstrong.
- [Poem: Cataract](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-cataract/) - Liquid cascades down the cheek. / It’s a waterfall, a cataract, you’re riding the rapids. From the poem 'Cataract' by Deborah Mason.
- [The Heraclitean Principle in Tolstoy’s War and Peace](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-heraclitean-principle-in-tolstoys-war-and-peace/) - Prompted by the War in Ukraine Peter O'Neill read Tolstoy's War and Peace, finding evidence of Heraclitus, the foremost authority on duality, in accounts of war
- [OIL, GAS + CARS](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/oil-gas-cars/) - "Tung Walsh’s experience in looking means the imagery seems keen to lose focus on that digital immediacy" Forthcoming exhibition in the Horse Gallery, Dublin.
- [Tammany Hall and the Origin of FDR's New Deal](https://cassandravoices.com/history/tammany-hall-and-the-origin-of-fdrs-new-deal/) - US historian Terry Golway explores how Tammany Hall's Charles Francis Murphy helped to move America away from rugged individualism to a more equitable society.
- [Justice by Algorithm](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/justice-by-algorithm/)
- [Podcast: The Great Famine in Ireland with Padraic X. Scanlon](https://cassandravoices.com/history/podcast-the-great-famine-in-ireland-with-padraic-x-scanlon/)
- [Poem: 'Oblique Landscape'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-oblique-landscape/) - Oblique Landscape is a new poem, and recording, by Bartholomew Ryan featuring an address to the nineteenth century Danish novelist and poet JP Jacobsen.
- [Public Intellectuals: Charles Darwin](https://cassandravoices.com/history/public-intellectuals-charles-darwin/) - David Langwallner discusses the legacy of Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution remains intact, but whose intellectual heirs developed troubling ideas.
- [Public Intellectuals: Leonardo Sciascia](https://cassandravoices.com/history/public-intellectuals-leonardo-sciascia/) - David Langwallner discusses the continued relevance of Sicilian journalist, parliamentarian and anti-mafia and anti corruption critic Leonardo Sciascia.
- [The Comics of Yesteryear](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-comics-of-yesteryear/) - Garreth Byrne recalls the comics of his childhood in the 1950s and 60s, at which time there was a vibrant market in Irish comics, along with British favourites.
- [Charity, Privatisation and Body Counts](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/charity-privatisation-and-body-counts/) - Eamonn Kelly argues that It stands to reason that a private company entrusted with a state service, is going to rig the system to maximise its profits.
- [Indiana Jones on a Kharkiv Bus](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/indiana-jones-on-a-kharkiv-bus/) - A soldier offers a gift but accepting it doesn't feel right. 'Indiana Jones on a Kharkiv Bus' is new fiction by Nina Kossman.
- [Turkey, Journalism and Erdoğan](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/turkey-journalism-and-erdogan/) - Luke Sheehan discusses recent protests in Turkey with journalist Deniz Güngör, who recalls police brutality and attacks on journalists by the Erdoğan regime.
- [Small Horses](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/small-horses/) - In new fiction by Damian McGiver, an aging Hollywood icon pour scorn on method-acting hooey, while those working with him regard him a royal pain in the ass.
- [Ностальгия](https://cassandravoices.com/society/ностальгия/) - A late night encounter with a Russian émigré in a Moroccan hotel leads Ruby Eastwood to reengage with Vladimir Nabokov’s wayward autobiography Speak, Memory.
- [Emotional Regimes of the Pandemic](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/emotional-regimes-of-the-pandemic/) - Thierry Simonelli shows how distinct emotional regimes were deliberately constructed within varying national and cultural settings during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- [The Carbon Tax Scapegoat](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/the-carbon-tax-scapegoat/) - Arthur Shortall wonders whether carbon taxes amount to a form of scapegoating used to avoid answering some rather politically awkward questions.
- [Poem: Vincent in Hiroshima](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-vincent-in-hiroshima/) - "Daubigny’s Garden, a late / masterpiece of Vincent van Gogh, / painted in July 1890 (the same month he died), / now hangs in Hiroshima." Poetry by Lucien Zell.
- [Poem: 'No animals died'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-no-animals-died/) - "The relationships were explosive – / but complied with current laws. / We intend to show you footage. Please, hold your applause." New poetry by Deborah Mason
- [Review: Chile in Their Hearts](https://cassandravoices.com/history/review-chile-in-their-hearts/) - Ramona Vassallo reviews John Dinges' book Chile in Their Hearts The Story of Two Americans (Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi) Who Went Missing After the Coup.
- [Musician of the Month: Jaed](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-jaed/) - Irish-Puerto Rican Jæd draws from a maelstrom of influences, the psychedelic contortions of Yves Tumor, vocal thrills of Kate Bush, & experimental noise-rock.
- [The Release of Love](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-release-of-love/) - This personal essay explores the final months of the author's father’s life. It’s a reflection on mortality, presence, and the silences between words.
- [Ireland and Palestine: A Crucial Vote Awaits](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/ireland-and-palestine-a-crucial-vote-awaits/) - Irish government support for Palestine might be seen as controlled opposition, wherein they stand as a placeholder for genuine supporters argues Frank Armstrong
- [Public Intellectuals: Voltaire](https://cassandravoices.com/history/public-intellectual-voltaire/) - David Langwallner discusses the career of François-Marie Arouet otherwise known as Voltaire, whose approach to justice and religion merits re-visiting he argues
- [The Journalist as Public Intellectual](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-journalist-as-public-intellectual/) - David Langwallner chooses his five greatest Public Intellectual-Journalists, with an Irishman top of the pile. Read the article to find out who they are.
- [On Rhetoric](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/on-rhetoric/) - David Langwaller considers some of the great rhetoricians including Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King as well practitioners of the dark arts.
- [Zambia: Literature through English](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/zambia-literature-through-english/) - Garreth Byrne recalls the contents of the African novels he taught to school students in the 1970s and 1990s in Zambia.
- [It’s All Academic: Bad Ideas Bloom](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/its-all-academic-bad-ideas-bloom/) - Eamonn Kelly takes aim at Critical Race Theory, which underlies a woke ideology, which he argues has dominated our universities for some time.
- [Poem: And Me](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-and-me/) - "Naked for you, beneath / some moon somewhere, which sounds / like an ending, unless you begin / with it." New 'erotic' poetry by Haley Hodges.
- [JACK GILBERT WAS TOO HORNY TO BE A METAPHYSICAL POET](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/jack-gilbert-was-too-horny-to-be-a-metaphysical-poet/) - JACK GILBERT WAS TOO HORNY TO BE A METAPHYSICAL POET "not that sex and metaphysics cancel each other out— / his was good news for Linda Gregg, until it wasn’t."
- [Bullying: It’s You, Not Me](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/bullying-its-you-not-me/) - Neil Burns reflects on his experiences of bullying both as victim and as perpetrator growing up in Northern Ireland, which he says harboured this culture.
- [Covid-19 Vaccines: Informed Consent?](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/covid-19-vaccines-informed-consent/) - Dr Billy Ralph asks what percentage of the 70% of the world’s population who received the Covid vaccines can say that they gave ‘informed consent’?
- [The Birth of a Doctor](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/the-birth-of-a-doctor/) - Billy Ralph recalls how he really did die on July 25 2022, and that what came back to life was not the same person, and certainly not the same doctor.
- [Manchurian Monkeys](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/manchurian-monkeys/) - Drs Marcus de Brun and Billy Ralph explore why initial HSE advice was reversed, and family doctors were prevented from using repurposed drugs against Covid-19.
- [Poem: Discovery](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-discovery/) - A new poem by Nicholas Battey is inspired by "that zingy first / apple of the season, sharp on your tongue, / sweet on your lips, parted and showing crimson."
- [Eastern European Poetry in a Time of Trauma](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/eastern-european-poetry-in-a-time-of-trauma/) - Peter O'Neill recalls how, in response to a traumatic episode in his life, encounters with a number of Eastern European poets restored his capacity to empathise
- [Psychopomp](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/psychopomp/) - "Music the liberator, the soul of dreams, emancipator of captives, of slaves, uplifter of the downhearted." From 'Psychopomp' is a new story by Dominic Mallen.
- [The Dish Washer](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-dish-washer/) - "It was the destiny of the dishwasher to live in his imagination, and his imagination didn’t pay by the hour." The Dish Washer is new fiction by Dominic Mallen.
- [Podcast: The Ghosts of Monto: Terry Fagan on 1950s Dublin](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/podcast-the-ghosts-of-monto-terry-fagan-on-1950s-dublin/) - In our latest podcast Luke Sheehan interviews Terry Fagan, a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin’s North Inner City.
- [Podcast: “He Bought Plato” a conversation with John Dillon](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/podcast-he-bought-plato-a-conversation-with-john-dillon/)
- [Poem: Maldon days](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-maldon-days/) - '... my beloved ealdorman / bristling with spears, slaughtered alongside his faithful warriors. New poetry by Deborah Mason recalls the Battle of Maldon 991AD
- [Guantanamo Founded on U.S. Occupation](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/guantanamo-founded-on-u-s-occupation/) - Ramona Wadi explores the Trump administration’s transfer of migrants to Guantanamo Bay, and revisits the historic treaties underpinning US-Cuban relations.
- [Teenage Sex for Meth](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/teenage-sex-for-meth/) - After suffering abuse as a child, Mary Beth O'Connor became addicted to meth-amphetamine, After that she traded sex for the drug. Here is her story of recovery
- [I Have a Dream](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/i-have-a-dream/) - In dreams the brain sets in motion a flurry of biochemical reactions that linger and become the breeding ground for all sorts of problems argues Steven Babalola
- [Musician of the Month: Flavia Watson](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-flavia-watson/) - Pop artist Flavia Watson believes that pain and pleasure can be alchemized into art to help us process this complicated and beautiful thing called Life.
- [Diabolical Healers](https://cassandravoices.com/history/diabolical-healers/) - A new book by Toby Green explores how an assault on West African ways of healing inaugurated a form of medical colonialism in West Africa in the 17th century.
- [Pathfinder: Manchán Magan](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/pathfinder-manchan-magan/) - Frank Armstrong pays tribute to the late Manchán Magan, having discovered a similar educational background, albeit diverging when it came to the Irish language.
- [Banksy and Protest Rights: The View from The Robing Room](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/banksy-and-protest-rights-the-view-from-the-robing-room/) - "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds." David Langwallner discusses the recent Banksy memorial in terms of the right to protest and its limitations.
- [360-Degree Leadership in Times of Crisis](https://cassandravoices.com/history/360-degree-leadership-in-times-of-crisis/)
- [My Mary & Me](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/my-mary-me/) - The only evolution that Heather brings to the 'Mary-model' for the Presidency is she isn't a Mary says Marcus de Brun but isn't impressed with Catherine either
- [Poem: The Revolutionary](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-the-revolutionary/) - 'When / Guinea first, and then the Parti Solidaire / demanded heartened soul, unstinting / dedication, day and night, I gave my all, / humming like a never-empty engine / of vivacity for Africa, my nation.' New poetry by Ciaran O'Rourke.
- [How Bono Nearly Ruined My Life](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/how-bono-nearly-ruined-my-life/) - Des Traynor charts a brief friendship with Bono that began in unlikely circumstances when they both attended the Shalom Christian prayer group in the early 80s.
- [The Ghost in the Garrick](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-ghost-in-the-garrick/) - An actor stares into a painting of David Garrick, for whom the theatre is named before he explores the old building in new fiction by Dominic Mallen
- [Poem: September is Here](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-september-is-here/) - "So autumn, please, no fickle / promises of crisp, cold days that don’t / materialise." From 'September' a new poem by Lorely Forrester.
- [Grandmothers' Fight for Stolen Generation](https://cassandravoices.com/history/grandmothers-fight-for-stolen-generation/) - A new book tells the story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo – a group of Argentinian grandmothers whose sons and daughters were disappeared by the dictatorship.
- [Theocracy – the Emigrant’s Artist](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/theocracy-the-emigrants-artist/) - Sé Merry Doyle’s latest documentary, Theocracy – the Emigrant’s Artist, serves as an excellent introduction to the stirring painting of Bernard Canavan.
- [‘The Deep and Inveterate Root of Social Evil’](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-deep-and-inveterate-root-of-social-evil/) - Frank Armstrong review a new history of the Great Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan that explodes some myths about the Irish relationship with the potato.
- [Distortions Of Language](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/distortions-of-language/) - David Langwallner argues that the distortion of language lies at the heart of the greatest of threats to human civilisation.
- [Hooligans, Thugs and Gangsters](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/hooligans-thugs-and-gangsters/) - David Langwallner argues that the world is now becoming a Gangster Enterprise, where brutality and soma-induced compliance maintain the ruling order.
- [Poem: Luke 2:1-7](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-luke-21-7/) - A new poem by Edward Clarke draws on the unadorned account of the nativity from Gospel according to Luke.
- [Carnsore Point: Ireland Goes Nuclear](https://cassandravoices.com/history/carnsore-point-ireland-goes-nuclear/) - Garreth Byrne looks back on the campaign against the building of a nuclear power plant in county Wexford in 1981 involving activists and musicians.
- [Poem: Vitruvian Woman](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-vitruvian-woman/) - 'We have known each other now for 25 Halloweens.' 'Virtruvian Woman' is a new poem for Halloween by Peter O'Neill
- [Poem: 'External Return'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-external-return/) - "My sixteen year old daughter comes to me to complain about / Patrick Kavanagh. ..." 'External Return' is a new poem by Peter O'Neill.
- [Contemporary Turkish Poetry Considered](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/contemporary-turkish-poetry-considered/) - Ciarán O’Rourke reviews a new volume of Turkish poetry, where censorship and imprisonment are looming realities for citizens who dare to ask questions
- [Fiction: The Cliff](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-the-cliff/) - 'They had never killed anyone before and both had a dread feeling about their circumstance.' 'The Cliff' is new fiction by Dominic Mallen.
- [A Conversation with Carlo Gébler](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/a-conversation-with-carlo-gebler/) - Carlo Gébler discusses the role of the unconscious in creativity, teaching in prison, his mother Edna O'Brien and the pitfalls of LSD with Ruby Eastwood.
- [Poem: 'What comes to mind in Ireland'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-what-comes-to-mind-in-ireland/) - A new poem by Deborah Mason accompanied by an exquisite image by Daniele Idini.
- [Review: Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/review-displaced-in-gaza-stories-from-the-gaza-genocide/) - Ramona Wadi finds that her immediate response upon reading through the chapter titles is: to what extent have we become desensitised as spectators or activists?
- [Musician of the Month: Cory Seznec](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-cory-seznec/) - It began for in London in the early 00s when he put an ad in Craig's List. He recalls wondering if the man who replied was on a Witness Protection Program.
- [Musician of the Month: Ciara O’Donnell](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-ciara-odonnell/) - Ciara O’Donnell performs as Domhan and is also a member of the band Bog Bodies. Her music is inspired by the Celtic spirit, shamanism and Eastern spirituality.
- [The Oxford Covid Debate](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/the-oxford-covid-debate/) - Toby Green writes about his experience of participating on one of the first genuine debates on Covid policies, and thanks his opponents for taking part.
- [Musician of the Month: Nyah Faie](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-nyah-faie/) - Nyah recognised her voice as my instrument from a young age but carried a fear that perhaps she was a person who loved to sing but couldn’t sing at all.
- [Podcast: 'Turkey's Phrase of the Year: Gözaltina aliniyorum'](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/turkeys-phrase-of-the-year-gozaltina-aliniyorum/) - A new podcast and article discuss fresh crackdowns targeting the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, with Fatima Akman Lehmann joining Luke Sheehan.
- [Poem: There is a Panther on the Streets of Paris](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-there-is-a-panther-on-the-streets-of-paris/) - "Rumours breeze like leaves along Boulevard Saint Germain...
- [Piano Van on the N17](https://cassandravoices.com/society/piano-van-on-the-n17/) - Frank Armstrong recalls an epic journey, including visions of a singing blind dog, back and forth along the N17 from Sligo to Galway and on to Limerick.
- [Podcast: Why I Joined the Revolution in Rojava](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/podcast-why-i-joined-the-revolution-in-rojava/) - Greek journalist and filmmaker Alexis Daloumis presents his newly released documentary Belkî Sibê, and talks about the current situation of the Kurds in Rojava.
- [On the Question of Immigration](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/on-the-question-of-immigration/) - David Langwallner's recalls encountering judgments of monumental absurdity, involving ill-informed credibility assessments in the Irish refugee tribunal system.
- [Political Art - from Banksy to Weimar](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/political-art-from-banksy-to-weimar/) - A reliable source informs David Langwallner that Banksy will be prosecuted over his RCJ mural. leading him to consider art as a form of political commentary.
- [In God We Trust Inc.](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/in-god-we-trust-inc/) - David Langwallner draws attention to the toxic combination of nationalism, religious mania and racism underpinning the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran.
- [Who is my Neighbour? On the Death of Renee Good](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/who-is-my-neighbour-on-the-death-of-renee-good/) - Haley Hodges mourns the loss of her fellow poet Renee Good who was shot dead at point blank range by an ICE officer after a brief and startling confrontation.
- [Poem: Ion](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-ion/) - Further poetry from Nicholas Battey, inspired by Saint Enodoc Church in Cornwall.
- [Review: Namanlagh by Tom Paulin](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/review-namanlagh-by-tom-paulin/) - As a whole it might be understood as the final flare of an aurora borealis that once seemed nearly permanent, and unassailable, in its rich, revelatory shining.
- [Flash Fiction: Book Lover](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/flash-fiction-book-lover/) - As two people browse in a Dublin book shop one finds himself drawn to the other, but will anyone break the ice?
- [Fiction: PANOPTICON](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-panopticon/) - "No one told him what the operation was or what it was meant to do but he knew that it was a new and revolutionary surgery ... they’d be opening up his skull"
- [Poem: 'Fothering the Sheep'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-fothering-the-sheep/) - 'Only minus seven this morning / but the gate latches are frozen solid.' New poetry by Deborah Mason takes us to the farm in winter.
- [Poem: 'The con cometh'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-the-con-cometh/) - "Not all will grasp how an influencer works. / She hopes they won’t." From 'The con cometh', a new poem by Deborah Mason.
- [Archiving Gaza in the Present](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/archiving-gaza-in-the-present/) - A new book attempts to counter the myth of Gaza being a barren land ripe for colonisation by drawing attention to its artistic heritage. Review by Ramona Wadi.
- [Cuckoo](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/cuckoo/) - Jeremy Hughes' poem is inspired by the migration of the Cuckoo, known as unokukhukhuza to the Zulu, from southern Africa to Wales where it breeds parasitically.
- [Poem: Gillnets](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-gillnets/) - Eivind E. Olsen is a poet from Stavanger, Norway, who spent several years in Texas growing up, and is an MA student in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
- [Musician of the Month: Jenny Ní Ruiséil](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-jenny-ni-ruiseil/) - Jenny Ní Ruiséil is a musician and Yoga teacher, based in the west of Ireland, who creates music inspired by her roots finding her voice through Irish language.
- [A Tender, Provocative Interweaving of Earthly and Divine](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/a-tender-provocative-interweaving-of-earthly-and-divine/) - Haley Hodges' new collection of poetry reveals "her ability to keep her reader guessing, wielding her wit and unreserved boldness to great effect."
- [Portugal: Storm Kristin's Devastating Effects](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/portugal-storm-kristins-devastating-effect/) - One could easily mistake Francis, Goretti, Harry, Ingrid, and Joseph for digital nomads passing through Portugal. but these are storms, or diluvial nomads.
- [Podcast: Murder Most Foul: Amanda Knox on the Lucy Letby Case](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/podcast-murder-most-foul-amanda-knox-on-the-lucy-letby-case/) - Amanda Knox joins Frank Armstrong to discuss the case of Lucy Letby, found guilty of murdering 8 babies in her care. She points to flaws in the prosecution case
- [In the Gorge of the Dragon](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/in-the-gorge-of-the-dragon/)
- [Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch Challenges Gangsters Inc.](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/gerry-the-monk-hutch-challenges-gangsters-inc/) - David Langwallner wonders if Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch would be any worse than gangsters currently in charge. He explores how he might win the Dublin by-election
- [Poem: Chimera Times](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-chimera-times/) - "Yet still the audience appears. / The props are now collectible, / But all creation’s in arrears, /And art is imperfectible." 'Chimera Times' by Ernest Hilbert
- [Nordic Mythology & Iceland’s Sustainable Transformation](https://cassandravoices.com/history/nordic-mythology-icelands-sustainable-transformation/) - Within a mythological context, Iceland’s renewable energy experience shows how energy-based enterprises act as agents of both sustainability and development.
- [My Emma](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/my-emma/)
- [Podcast: Ward Bosses and Alligator Bishops: Irish Americans and Tammany Hall with Terry Golway](https://cassandravoices.com/history/podcast-ward-bosses-and-alligator-bishops-irish-americans-and-tammany-hall-with-terry-golway/)
- [Fiction: Beyond Use](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-beyond-use/)
- [Musician of the Month: Cedar Dobson](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-cedar-dobson/) - Cedar Dobson is a Californian native now based in Ireland. The gates of Irish traditional music opened for her after buying a tin whistle.
- [Sahel: Water does not become bitter without cause](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/sahel-water-does-not-become-bitter-without-cause/) - This 6,000 km zone has seen more military coups in the last decade than anywhere on Earth. Since 2020 Mali twice, Guinea, Burkina Faso twice, Niger and Sudan.
- [Musician of the Month: Rosa Feodora](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-rosa-feodora/)
- [A Glimpse of Gambian Life after Covid](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/a-glimpse-of-gambian-life-after-covid/)
- [Name-Calling and the Fall of the West](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/name-calling-and-the-fall-of-the-west/) - Comment. Have our elites and the liberal left, as well-intentioned as they may be, inadvertently fallen into the role of gate-openers for the barbarian hordes?
- [Rain in the Face](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/rain-in-the-face/) - As the skies open, the spirit guide arrives... 'Rain in the Face' is a new work of short fiction by Dominic Mallen.
- [Kneecapped at Coachella](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/kneecapped-at-coachella/) - In response to Kneecap's at Coachella Daniel Kilmartin argues protest isn’t a playlist - it’s not supposed to make you comfortable, but to make you act.
- [Musician of the Month: Oscar Carmona](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-oscar-carmona/) - Oscar Carmona says he cannot live without making music: "I don’t want to live without making music. I don’t want to, I can’t, I wouldn’t, I couldn’t."
- [We Must Begin with the Land](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/we-must-begin-with-the-land/) - Ciarán O’Rourke reviews Stephen E. Hunt's new book We Must Begin with the Land: Seeking Abundance and Liberation through Social Ecology published by Zer0 books.
- [Does Dublin Require 3 Railway Systems?](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/does-dublin-require-3-railway-systems/) - Donal O'Brolchain demolishes the case for Dublin's MetroLink, which is projected to cost €23 billion, arguing instead for an extension of light rail (LUAS).
- [Review: The Occupant by Jennifer Maier](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/review-the-occupant-by-jennifer-maier/) - Haley Hodges reviews Jennifer Maier’s newly-released third collection of poetry The Occupant "a deft mingling of prose and traditional poems."
- [Fearful Times, and Canada](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/fearful-times-and-canada/) - With U.S. politics "circling the drain."Peter Behrens argues that Canadians need to support leaders who understand the country's position within the world.
- [Fiction: The Text](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-the-text/) - Lil’Johnny receives a text from an unknown admirer, with whom he arranges to meet, but a romantic sensibility precludes him from finding out who it is.
- [Exit through the Vestry](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/exit-through-the-vestry/) - "There comes a moment when you discover a person the trajectory of whose business affairs appears to embody the rotten nature of Irish housing..."
- [Musician of the Month: Ronan Skillen](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-ronan-skillen/) - Music has always been Ronan Skillen's favourite mystery. As a medium, an energy or exchange, he says there’s no other frequency that carries as much potential.
- [The Inscrutable Mr. Scruton](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-inscrutable-mr-scruton/) - This article by Dara Waldron serves as an introduction and sidewards preamble into his eagerly anticipated forthcoming book A Sheepdog Named Oscar.
- [The Dog that Sang the Blues](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-dog-that-sang-the-blues/) - A heart-broken traveller makes his way to the town of Humahuaca in northern Argentina, where he encounters a remarkable creature. New fiction by Dominic Mallen.
- [The Powerful Nature of Addiction](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/the-powerful-nature-of-addiction/) - Neil Burns opens up on his history of alcoholism, its impact on his body, and the power nature of addiction.
- [Podcast: Patrick Cockburn on Syria and Ukraine](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/podcast-patrick-cockburn-on-syria-and-ukraine/) - Patrick Cockburn joins Luke Sheehan to discuss the deteriorating situation in Syria and a false depiction of the Ukraine-Russia conflict as a replay of WW2.
- [Horses](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/horses/) - "I told them my dad was dying and that I needed at least a week off. Lots of people shook my hand, like when I manage to close a deal." 'From 'Horses'
- [Electronic Music: ‘stepping into a space of anticipation’](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/electronic-music-stepping-into-a-space-of-anticipation/) - Clara Pistner plays electronic music, experimental ambient sets or hypnotic techno sets. Here she discusses her relationship with her audience.
- [Poem: Rental](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-rental/) - "The landlord’s lips were thin, / her lipstick coral." From 'Rental' a new poem from New York poet Deborah Diemont.
- [Musician of the Month: Johnny Jude](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-jonathan-jude/) - Jonathan Jude of Dublin-based psychedelic electro/hiphop band Shakalak says you just have to keep showing up at the office and something will eventually happen.
- [A Grand Lady Must be a Hundred Years Old](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/a-grand-lady-must-be-a-hundred-years-old/) - Russian-American author Nina Kossman tells the tale of her father, who leaves Riga for Russia only days before it is taken by the Germans in World War II,
- [Dog Years](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/dog-years/) - In new science fiction by Damien McKiver two humorous aliens land in Dublin with a stark message for humanity, which they deliver to the Irish President.
- [Poem: 'A Chapter in the War'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-a-chapter-in-the-war/) - "The massacre was brutal – for these were brotherly / antagonists, Roman known to Roman, lethally opposed." Ciarán O'Rourke's new poem draws on ancient history.
- [Poem: 'Where beckons the quiver…?'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-where-beckons-the-quiver/) - Each one of us a teardrop, / enters the world’s heart chamber / and congeals before your eyes? A new poem by Paul Downes, Professor of Psychology of Education
- [Poem: Lovely Dead](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-lovely-dead/) - 'for the texture they bring to cold light' As the light returns, Nicholas Battey offers another poem inspired by his garden.
- [At the Colònia Güell](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/at-the-colonia-guell/) - Ruby Eastwood returns to her native Barcelona to find an early vision of paternalistic capitalism at Colònia Güell recalling her own time as a content moderator
- [Musician of the Month: Dee Armstrong](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-dee-armstrong/) - As a youngster Kila fiddler Dee Armstrong never imagined she would play traditional music but it was always there in the background. Her solo album is out now
- [Who Let the Dogs Out? A Review of Babygirl](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/who-let-the-dogs-out-a-review-of-babygirl/) - Haley Hodges explores a film starring Nicole Kidman celebrating unreserved expressions of female sexual pleasure in an ostensibly middle-aged woman
- [Podcast: 'We Urgently Need a Global Vision'](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/podcast-we-urgently-need-a-global-vision/) - The former Irish ambassador to Russia Philip McDonagh joins the podcast to discuss prospects for peace & recalls an interesting encounter with Mikhail Gorbachev
- [Woody and Annie (and Others) Part II](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/woody-and-annie-and-others-part-ii/) - Part II of Desmond Traynor article making the case for Woody Allen that discusses the moral standard that should apply to wide age-gap relationships.
- [Woody and Annie (and Others) Part I](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/woody-and-annie-and-others-part-i/) - Desmond Traynor makes the case for Woody Allen, arguing the same moral standard should apply to men and women when it comes to wide age-gap relationships.
- [Have Video Games Become a Respected and Distinct Art form?](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/have-video-games-become-a-respected-and-distinct-art-form/) - Here is a closer look at whether video games have become a respected and distinct art form these days and which games are a cut above the rest.
- [Covid-19: 'The North Began’ Part II](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/covid-19-the-north-began-part-ii/) - Stephen Court contrasts Northern Ireland's Covid Inquiry with the 'Review' in the South and reveals the Irish government's sensible plan that was never followed
- [The Death of My Marriage and JFK Junior](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-death-of-my-marriage-and-jfk-junior/) - "Jack was cocky, opinionated, an artistic bully at times, a 360 of my pragmatic husband." New fiction from New York concerns the reasons for marital infidelity.
- [Fiction: Dos Lunas](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-dos-lunas/) - New fiction by Dominic Mallen explores the social underbelly of life in Granada, on one of those August days where even the stray dogs wouldn’t leave the shade.
- [Poetry: 'hospital suite'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-hospital-suite/) - 'hospital suite' is a set of three minimalist poems by Damien Lennon accompanied by an exquisite image by Daniele Idini.
- [Murphy Walked into the Bar](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/murphy-walked-into-the-bar/) - This comic piece evokes a waning Vaudevillian world akin to the paintwork at Wilton's Music Hall. Londoner Ben Burke has been involved in theatre for many years
- [Make Greenland Great](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/make-greenland-great/) - Trump's interest in Greenland stems a zero-sum game of competition between nation states, with authoritarianism and outright fascism on the rise, globally.
- [My Mother (at the Time)](https://cassandravoices.com/podcast/my-mother-at-the-time/) - For this podcast host Luke Sheehan travelled to Amsterdam to interview the Irish critic, art historian and Joycean named Patrick Healy.
- [The Secondary World](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-secondary-world/) - A desire for a secondary world of the imagination, if not perhaps intrinsic to every individual, is intrinsic to humankind argues Dominic Mallen.
- [Ode to the Sausage Roll](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/ode-to-the-sausage-roll/) - Neil Burns argues that when we accept inferior products, we become ‘modified’ slaves to the corporate dominion and accept the way things are..
- [Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/michel-houellebecqs-annihilation/) - It's easy to dismiss Houellebecq as a sex-obsessed sensationalist, but few novelists diagnose the ills of contemporary society in such an entertaining manner.
- [Poem: 'If I Could Only'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-if-i-could-only/) - In new poetry by Lorely Forrester scenes of war and desolation give way when dawn breaks, as the poet discovers that 'a veil of snow has fallen in the night.'
- [Scratch That: Taylor Swift is a Dime-Store Novelist](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/scratch-that-taylor-swift-is-a-dime-store-novelist/) - In response to Haley Hodges praise, A. Curmudgeon likens Taylor Swift’s accomplishment to the accomplishment of the McDonalds restauranteurs.
- [Fiction: Change](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-change/) - In new fiction by Emer Mullen a young executive's aspirations to advance his career are stymied, but a new appointment to the company gives him hope.
- [False Prophecy](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/false-prophecy/) - Frank Armstrong argues that Paul Lynch's novel Prophet Song offers no insight into the insidious means by which a fascist government could take power in Ireland
- [Taylor Swift is our Greatest Confessional Poet](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/taylor-swift-is-our-greatest-confessional-poet/) - Haley Hodges sees Taylor Swift as the current greatest exponent of confessional poetry which is always a tightrope walk a precarious style with precarious risks
- [Poem: Krismastime](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-krismastime/) - "It's Krismastime / Get confetti / Slug wile" A new poem by Christoph Hargreaves-Allen offers a slanted vision of the Yuletide occasion.
- [A Visit to the Hague](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/a-visit-to-the-hague/) - After a visit to the Hague, David Langwallner argues that the ICC needs to be supported to extend its jurisdiction to include what he calls Economicide.
- [The Last Christmas](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-last-christmas/) - "‘Why are they called ‘mince’pies’?’ we ask Dad in the car on the way home." In new fiction, Rosita Sweetman recreates a Christmas celebration from times past
- [Public Intellectuals: Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/public-intellectuals-fyodor-dostoevsky/) - David Langwallner examines the enduring legacy of Dostoevsky who he views as the greatest prose writer of all time. His novels evoke the darkest human motives.
- ["It is Abhorrent to Stage an Image" A Conversation with George Azar](https://cassandravoices.com/podcast/it-is-abhorrent-to-stage-an-image-a-conversation-with-george-azar/)
- [Lebanon: 5,000 Kilometres Away](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/lebanon-5000-kilometres-away/) - Writing from the safety of Dublin in November, Lebanese woman Lily Abichahine stays in constant touch with her family in Beirut as they confront Israeli attacks
- [Putting the ‘Public’ Back into Enterprise](https://cassandravoices.com/history/putting-the-public-back-into-enterprise/) - In Part II of this series, Cillian Doyle explores the role State-Owned Enterprises in Ireland the wake of a wave of privatisations and the Apple tax judgement.
- [Fiction: Everything Human](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-everything-human/) - “But surely as actors it is what is within that counts? Soul marks us out, as a profession I mean.” 'Everything Human is new fiction by Dominic Mallen.
- [Ode to the Christmas Pub](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/ode-to-the-christmas-pub/) - In new flash fiction by Andrew McEneff the narrator Andy explores the taverns of this dirty old town in a seasonal riff on the opening paragraph of Moby Dick.
- [Artist of the Month: Letizia Lopreiato](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/artist-of-the-month-letizia-lopreiato/) - Artist of the Month, Letizia Lopreiato, goes through the background of her latest project in an intimate account of her creative process.
- ["We Bury the Funsters" - Lethal Weapon Revisited](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/we-bury-the-funsters-lethal-weapon-revisited/) - Damien McKiver identifies Die Hard starring Mel Gibson as the preeminent example of an action movie which has crossed into the Christmas movie category.
- [Poem: Teacher](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-teacher/) - 'Teacher' is a new poem by Haley Hodges.
- [Still Life: Photography Competition](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/still-life-photography-competition/) - Cassandra Voices is delighted to be collaborating with the charity Collateral Global on a photographic competition depicting life under lockdown.
- [Friended](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/friended/) - Damien McKiver's new story 'Friended' is a rip-roaring journey through a dysfunctional male friendship culminating in occasionally liking each other’s posts.
- [Managing Risk in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Lessons from Adventure Sports](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/managing-risk-in-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-lessons-from-adventure-sports/) - Formerly a adventure sports guide, psychotherapist Rob Ó Cobhthaigh explores lessons that can be learnt from his former role in psychedelic assisted therapy.
- [How Far Can We Trust Science?](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/how-far-can-we-trust-science/) - In his prize-winning essay from the Hubert Butler Essay Competition 2023 Desmond Traynor addresses the question of how far can we trust the science.
- [The Greatest Troubadour: Jacques Brel](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-greatest-troubadour-jacques-brel/) - David Langwallner hails who he regards as the greatest troubadour of them all: Jacques Brel, who is also considered the greatest Belgian of all time.
- [A Meeting](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/a-meeting/) - A young boy of great talent has the chance to play before his hero. Dominic Mallen's new story 'The Meeting' imagines an encounter between Beethoven and Mozart.
- [America The Bisected](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/america-the-bisected/) - Haley Hodges cannot emphasize the extent to which she's certain the ‘go fuck yourself if’ approach to fellow Americans will keep men like Trump in power forever
- [Poem: The Oath](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-the-oath/) - Jack Grady is a founder of the Ox Mountain Poets, based in County Mayo. He is the author of the collection, Resurrection (Lapwing, 2017).
- [Musician of the Month: Greg Clifford](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-greg-clifford/) - Since birth Greg's been completely enveloped by music and creativity. His father Dave Clifford was a mainstay of the Dublin cultural scene. His new band is MANA
- [A Contract of Indefinite Duration](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/a-contract-of-indefinite-duration/) - ‘Did any of them ever interfere with you?’ The distasteful question hung in the air like a strand of hair pulled slowly out of a sandwich.
- [Musician of the Month: Caterina Schembri](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-caterina-schembri/) - Musician of the Month Caterina Schembri launches her new album Sea Salt & Turpentine in the National Concert Hall, Dublin next Thursday, November 14.
- [Fiction: Fez](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-fez/) - New fiction by Imelda O'Reilly set among ex-pats in Fez, Morrocco is haunted by memories of Ireland as she asks: Why do memories restrain me, hold me so tight?
- [Poem: Old Road Sign](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-old-road-sign/) - Greg Huteson authored These Unblessed Days. His poems have appeared in The Honest Ulsterman, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Joie de Vivre Journal and Blue Unicorn.
- [Featured Artist: Gary Farrelly](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-gary-farrelly/) - Gary Farrelly's new exhibition Proximity Papers in Brussels channels the political and architectural imaginaries inhabiting his more bombastic performance work.
- [Fiction: Old Poetry](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-old-poetry/) - 'Old Poetry' is by Damien McKiver who has spent the last few years writing an unashamedly large novel but is currently enjoying the unapologetic brevity of the short story.
- [The Missing Link in Draghi's E.U. Plan](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-missing-link-in-draghis-e-u-plan/) - In the first in a forthcoming series, Cillian Doyle identifies the absence of an industrial policy as a major gap in Draghi's EU competitiveness plan.
- [Poem: Whom You’re Never Told](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-whom-youre-never-told/) - She pleads with her mantras for years—endless / In a hill so tranquil, where she is—she always is. A new poem by Indonesian poet Putriyana Asmarani.
- [Poem: The First of February](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-the-first-of-february/) - "The only thing that holds a light / That’s real is melting snow" From 'First of February' a new poem by award-winning U.S. poet Ernest Hilbert.
- [The Nascent Age of the Self -Involved](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-nascent-age-of-the-self-involved/) - Neil Burns argues that a middlebrow mediocrity has taken most of the literary, mainstream positions and loves nothing more than to espouse its own form of ‘I.
- [Poem: Hats On for the Happy](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-hats-on-for-the-happy/) - We couldn’t go in person/ since the car had grown moss inside./ So we sat on Zoom in Birmingham,/ between a Dublin screen/ and one in the south of Chicago.
- [Lebanon: Domestic Considerations May Prove Decisive to Hezbollah](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/lebanon-domestic-considerations-may-prove-decisive-to-hezbollah/) - Hezbollah’s revered status as the resistance to Zionist aggression has depreciated in recent years. A long campaign could revitalize it despite early losses.
- [Kneecap – Don’t Look Back in Ongar](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/kneecap-dont-look-back-in-ongar/) - Cormac Deane joins the dots between a satirical history of the south Dublin elite and a semi-biographical Irish-language film about 2 working-class Belfast boys
- [The Austrian Mind](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/the-austrian-mind/) - David Langwallner delves into his Austrian background to gain an understanding of the rise of the far right pointing to the light and darkness in its character.
- [Podcast: ‘Inside the Belly of the Beast: Reporting on U.S. Foreign Policy from Washington D.C.’ with guest Anya Parampil](https://cassandravoices.com/podcast/podcast-inside-the-belly-of-the-beast-reporting-on-u-s-foreign-policy-from-washington-d-c-with-guest-anya-parampil/) - In our tenth podcast episode Grayzone journalist Anya Parampil discusses her new book Corporate Coup – Venezuela and the End of US Empire with Frank Armstrong.
- [The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 3](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/the-relevance-of-jurisprudence-to-law-part-3/) - David Langwallner asserts that Karl Marx is the greatest of all legal philosophers, which is not to say he is entirely correct or provides a model to follow.
- [Review: Trump Rant by Chris Agee](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/review-trump-rant-by-chris-agee/) - Ciarán O’Rourke reviews Chris Agee's 'Trump Rant' which was written over a four-year period and arranged as an expanding series of mock-newspaper headlines.
- [Poem: 'Calling All Angels'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-calling-all-angels/) - "September’s having her best / orgasm in a century. Everything lingers / in climax" From 'Calling All Angels' a new poem by U.S. poet Haley Hodges.
- [Review: Father, Son and Brother Ghost](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/review-father-son-and-brother-ghost/) - Bernadette Gorman hails a beautifully crafted memoir on a grief that brings the writer John MacKenna to the edge of self-annihilation.
- [Mary Dances](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/mary-dances/) - "The boys and girls in the kitchen had given him his new name, Mary. He liked being called Mary... " 'Mary Dances' is new short fiction by Jonathan Weightman.
- [Poem: Holy Hay](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/holyhay/) - "That’s why I tried it in our garden, / feeling it somehow sacred, so it might recover / the past" 'Holy Hay' is a new poem by poet-gardener Nicholas Battey.
- [Ireland's Toxic Culture of Omertà](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/irelands-toxic-culture-of-omerta/) - DAA Whistleblower Matthew Butterly recalls his experience as a patient of Michael Shine, which offered an early insight into a prevailing culture of omertà.
- [Substituting Memory for History in the (Mis)information Age](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/history-2/substituting-memory-for-history-in-the-misinformation-age/) - In an extended essay Desmond Traynor cautions cautions against forgetting the debt both literature and history owe to the oral tradition.
- [Musician of the Month: Finn Doherty](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-finn-doherty/) - Growing up in North London Finn Doherty attended a lot of sessions with his parents, and trad music played a big part in the way he writes melodies.
- [The Synaptic Twerking of Consciousness](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-synaptic-twerking-of-consciousness/) - Neil Burns describes mediocrity as a virus, burning through media outlets, claiming there is only one way, which he connects to the abandonment of punctuation.
- [The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 2](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/the-relevance-of-jurisprudence-to-law/) - In this 2nd part of his series, David Langwallner advocates for Ronald Dworkin’s principled interpretation which unlike Legal Positivism takes rights seriously.
- [The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 1](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/the-relevance-of-jurisprudence-to-law-part-1/) - David Langwallner takes issue with Supreme Court Justice Gerard Hogan devotion to legal positivism, instead arguing morality and politics should inform the law
- [Poem: 'They Have Gained An Audience'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-they-have-gained-an-audience/) - 'I imagine a bird and the bird is language, the bird / encircles the head of the most high and does not / flinch or burn.' New poetry from Haley Hodges.
- [Poem: 'The Longest Day of the Year'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-the-longest-day-of-the-year/) - "Living in terror in this rooftop hell, / every day is the longest day of the year." New poetry from S.C. Flynn. Born in Australia, he now lives in Dublin.
- [Fairy Story](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fairy-story/) - Fairy Story is new fiction by Lisbon-based writer Jonathan Waterman which is set in London in 1919. It concerns a love that dare not speak its name.
- [Judge the Strength of a Democracy by its Treatment of Whistleblowers](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/judge-the-strength-of-a-democracy-by-its-treatment-of-whistleblowers/) - Bernadette Gorman argues that effective sabotaging of EU Directive on whistleblowing by newly nominated EU Commissioner Michael McGrath imperils Irish democracy
- [Review: 'That They May Face the Rising Sun'](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/review-that-they-may-face-the-rising-sun/) - Cormac Deane identifies contemporary concerns and the influence of Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu in Pat Collins' film adaptation of John McGahern's novel.
- [Poem: 'The Vagabond'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-the-vagabond/) - In remoter reaches / of the Wicklow hills, they live where a sodden soul / could barely pass. From The Vagabond a new poem by Ciaran O'Rourke.
- [Bunker Mentality](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/bunker-mentality/) - Dara Waldron's response to Darn Thorn’s Monumental Failure (at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre New Line, Manorhamilton running from May 29-June 22) is a must read.
- [‘Oppie’](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/oppie/) - As a U.S. Senator approves a nuclear strike on Gaza, Rosita Sweetman argues that the Oppenheimer film fails to address the terrible lie at the heart of the Patriarchy: that might is right.
- [Poem: 'And Not Your Garments'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-and-not-your-garments/) - 'And Not Your Garments' is an intriguing new poem by Haley Hodges.
- [Lockdown Gallery 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/lockdown-gallery-2020/)
- [HIT IT: Hustling and the Ivory Tower with Max McGuinness](https://cassandravoices.com/podcast/hit-it-hustling-and-the-ivory-tower-with-max-mcguinness/) - In our latest podcast Dr. Max McGuinness discusses his book on the connection between journalism and literature in nineteenth century France with Luke Sheehan.
- [Joujouka Redux](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/joujouka-redux/) - Des Traynor revisits the legendary Joujouka music festival in Morocco to consider cultural appropriation, intimate relations and music's ineffable quality.
- [Ireland Urgently Requires a Covid Inquiry](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/ireland-urgently-requires-a-covid-inquiry/) - Frank Armstrong calls on Ireland's main opposition party Sinn Féin to demand a Covid Inquiry, or risk hemorrhaging support to far-right opponents.
- [ENOUGH! Confronting Woody Allen](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/enough-confronting-woody-allen/) - Rosita Sweetman argues sexual abuse of women by powerful men is still endemic, but hails incredibly brave young women like Dylan Farrow for calling it out.
- [Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System Part 2](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/guilt-and-innocence-in-the-criminal-justice-system-part-2/) - In the second part of this series David Langwallner argues that it is crucial to distinguish between genuine miscarriages of justice and rightful accountability
- [The Doomsday Machines](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-doomsday-machines/) - Smartphones may be like Stanley Kubrick's Doomsday Machine preventing us from collective action. Includes wisdom from Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet
- [LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason II](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/long-read-the-sleep-of-reason-ii/) - "The crisis we are facing is not, in the first instance, a problem to be solved, but a failure to clearly perceive its cause." Part II of The Sleep of Reason.
- [Podcast: A Flawed Consensus: COVID-19 in Africa](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/podcast-a-flawed-consensus-covid-19-in-africa/) - Toby Green discusses the effect of Covid lockdowns on Africa, which was largely unaffected by the disease, and the intellectual failure of many on the left.
- [Covid-19: A Flawed Consensus](https://cassandravoices.com/society/covid-19-a-flawed-consensus/) - Frank Armstrong reviews Toby Green and Thomas Fazi's Covid Consensus which explores the effect of the cleansing of death from life in the West over many decades
- [Visiting](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/visiting/) - In new short fiction by Emer Mullen a mother contacts a daughter she left d her childhood. Will it be possible to undo the harm caused after so many years?
- [Poem: 'All is Number'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-all-is-number/) - the plump earth greens luminous / and humans agree terms to barter for / what’s there which lies shimmering / and only calculable. A new poem by Nicholas Battey
- [Where is Shane MacGowan's 1916 Rifle?](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/where-is-shane-macgowans-1916-rifle/) - Cassandra Voices is happy to accept the artifact with no questions asked, and return it to Victoria.
- [Featured Artist: Caleb Butterly](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-caleb-butterly/) - 'When nude we show much of our lived story in our skin and form.' Featured artist Caleb Butterly discusses his depiction of the raw complexity of the human form
- [Podcast: China, COVID-19 and the Viscount](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/podcast-china-covid-19-and-the-viscount/) - Drawing on his experience of living in China, Luke Sheehan discusses the origins of COVID-19 Matt Ridley, author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
- [LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason I](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/long-read-the-sleep-of-reason-i/) - "The peremptory watchword believe in God has been superseded by “trust the science”. Its dogmatic purpose is no different" From a new essay by Terence O'Connell
- [Lockdowns: "Thinking in One Dimension". Podcast Interview with Professor Sunetra Gupta.](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/lockdowns-thinking-in-one-dimension-podcast-interview-with-sunetra-gupta/) - In our latest podcast Sunetra Gupta recalls her role as the anti-lockdown Professor & her work on a universal influenza vaccine. She's still awaiting an apology
- [A Rainy Night in Saifi – Luke Sheehan and Nadim Shehadi in conversation](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/a-rainy-night-in-saifi-luke-sheehan-and-nadim-shehadi-in-conversation/) - Luke Sheehan recalls the time he spent in Lebanon, in hindsight another brief golden age, in this introduction to his podcast interview with Nasem Shehadi
- [Podcast: Musician of the Month John Cummins](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/podcast-musician-of-the-month-john-cummins/) - We have a special edition in our Musician of the Month series as Frank Armstrong interviews John Cummins of the Dublin band Shakalak.
- ['Devil in the Hills': Jim Sheridan on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier Murder](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/jim-sheridan-ian-bailey-was-like-a-big-child/) - In our latest podcast Jim Sheridan discusses the Ian Bailey he knew, and explains why he was the perfect fall guy for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
- [We are in a new dark age: David Langwallner on Julian Assange](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/david-langwallner-podcast-interview-on-julian-assange/) - Luke Sheehan interviews David Langwallner in our latest podcast on the Julian Assange case. He says Assange's fate suggests we are entering a new Dark Age.
- [Podcast: Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied! With guest Patrick Cockburn](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-cassandra-voices-podcast/) - Episode one of the Cassandra Voices Podcast hosted by Luke Sheahan features a long form interview with the veteran journalist Patrick Cockburn. Please Subscribe
- [Unforgettable Year: April 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-april-2020/) - April was the cruelest month during a global pandemic that introduced us to lockdowns. The story of 2020 #unforgettableyear continues
- [Fear, Class, and Universal Basic Income](https://cassandravoices.com/society/fear-class-and-universal-basic-income/) - Ben Pantrey argues UBI should be a no-strings-attached gift given in good faith to everybody, not a conditional grant for a cohort of well-respected creatives.
- [Poem: 'Faerie Fire' by Rye Jaffe](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-faerie-fire-by-rye-jaffe/) - In iron, imps immersed incur ill eye, manacled to mortal machinations, while led by living lights, our lost lives lie sunk ‘neath stars of shoreless sublimation
- [The Passing of Shane MacGowan](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-passing-of-shane-macgowan/) - Frank Armstrong explores the importance of Catholicism to Shane MacGowan, and an unlikely link to the poet W.B. Yeats after attending his funeral in Nenagh.
- [The Politics of the Last Announcement](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/the-politics-of-the-last-announcement/) - Cillian Doyle forensically examines the “fiscal gimmickry” at work outside budget time, specifically when Ministers make nominally ‘new’ funding announcements.
- [Assange Case: a partial victory or another ominous step towards extradition?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/assange-case-a-partial-victory-or-another-ominous-step-towards-extradition/) - Luke Sheehan explores the latest developments in the Assange Case, and is joined by barrister David Langwallner to discuss the approach of the U.K.'s High Court
- [Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System Part 1](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/cassandra-voices-guilt-in-criminal-justice-i/) - David Langwallner begins a two-part series on why people are found guilty of crimes they did not commit dealing with confirmation bias, leading questions etc.
- [Featured Artist: Dorje de Burgh](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-dorje-de-burgh/) - Dorje de Burgh is quite suspicious of his reasons for choosing a really hard thing to do that most likely will provide only precarity and emotional insecurity
- [This Is The Leg I Use When I'm Thinking](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/this-is-the-leg-i-use-when-im-thinking/) - "Something selfish made her acknowledge death; where it was in the room, where it came near and pulled up a chair" Fiction by Vil Levar ruminates on life & death
- [Freebirthing in Ireland](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/freebirthing-in-ireland/) - The medical model of birth in Ireland has given rise to a counter culture of freebirthing writes Siobhan da Paor, who has just given birth in this off-grid way.
- [LONG READ: The Degradation of SYRIZA](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/long-read-the-degradation-of-syriza/) - What was once a beacon of hope for the global Left, now seems to lie in ruins. Nikolas G. R. charts the rise and fall of SYRIZA in our latest LONG READ.
- [A Coming Plague](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/a-coming-plague/) - Dr. Marcus de Brun fears a loss of trust in the HSE's vaccination programme after COVID-19 has led to hesitancy around tried and trusted childhood vaccinations.
- [Musician of the Month: Aoife Ní Bhriain](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-aoife-ni-bhriain/) - Playing classical and traditional music brought a sense of imposter syndrome. Cervical cancer diagnosis ended gallivanting before meeting harpist Catrin Finch.
- [A Whistleblower’s Motive](https://cassandravoices.com/society/a-whistleblowers-motive/) - After 25 years including as Police Training Manager in Dublin Airport Matthew Butterly saw declining standards, including abandoning 30-minute queue requirement
- [Raise the Bar Events](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/raise-the-bar-events/) - From a creative household, Luke Newman began to make art himself – and was confronted by the challenge of making a living. This led him on to another path
- [Poem: St. Patrick’s Day 2024](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-st-patricks-day-2024/) - "Like a gaping silence of Connemara stone / what remains unsaid / scars my heart." from 'St. Patrick’s Day 2024' a new poem by Anne Donnellan.
- [Applying Hitchens’s Razor: Jim Sheridan and Ian Bailey](https://cassandravoices.com/society/applying-hitchenss-razor-jim-sheridan-and-ian-bailey/) - J. P. Holzer says the stream-of-consciousness outpouring of Jim Sheridan on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case are fascinating but provides no meaningful evidence.
- [Musician of the Month: Squalloscope (Anna Kohlweis)](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-squalloscope-anna-kohlweis/) - The narrators and characters in Musican of the Month Anna Kohlweis's work have a tendency to seem lost, searching, observing, often barely tethered to the earth
- [White Christmas](https://cassandravoices.com/society/white-christmas/) - "It’s amazing how well you learn to ride out the cocaine heart failure in the making." Sensitive readers might find this account difficult to stomach.
- [The Secret Model – Subtle Complaints](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-secret-model-subtle-complaints/)
- [Anatomy of Disgust – Northern Irish Style](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/anatomy-of-disgust-northern-irish-style/) - Neil Burns explores the origins of Interjections. Which are unconscious acceptance of terms, ideas, and personality traits from parents, guardians, and others.
- [Feathers for Rosa – a tribute to Rosa Luxemburg](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/feathers-for-rosa-a-tribute-to-rosa-luxemburg/) - 'Feathers for Rosa Luxemburg' is a new play in tribute to the philosopher and revolutionary activist opening at the New Theatre Dublin on her birthday March 5th
- [The “Strawman” Conspiracy Theorist](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/the-strawman-conspiracy-theorist/) - A strawman conspiracy theorist appears to have been developed, especially by so-called fact checkers, to deter valid journalistic enquiry during the pandemic
- [Jim Sheridan Authors Screenplay about Lockerbie](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/jim-sheridan-authors-screenplay-about-lockerbie/) - Jim Sheridan, who directed and co-wrote In the Name of the Father (1993) has written the screenplay for a forthcoming series based on the 1988 Lockerbie Bombing
- [Local Government Falls Short](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/local-government-falls-short/) - Local government in Ireland depends on grants from central government. Garreth Byrne sees this as an opportunity for councillors to unjustly claim special influence.
- [Fiction: The Sea of Pearls](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-the-sea-of-pearls/) - New fiction by Dominic Mallen juxtaposes victims of the Holocaust with victims of the Nakba, as the events of October 7 unleashes new horrors in Gaza.
- [Poem: 'Year of The' by Haley Hodges](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-year-of-the-by-haley-hodges/) - New poetry by Haley Hodges: 'year of the idiotic Stanley tumbler, / year of the subtle but far reaching machinations of / neo-Marxism depending on who you ask'
- [Hymn XI: Marc Di Saverio](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/hymn-xi-marc-di-saverio/) - Marc di Saverio hails from Hamilton, Canada. His poems, translations and artwork have appeared internationally, including a broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
- [Poem: Take me to Éire](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-take-me-to-eire/) - And I, no longer yearning / For the grassy seats of kings, / Endless paths of peat and song, / Rest my life upon the wind, / And in an Otherworldly blaze, pass on.
- [Poetry: Putriyana Asmarani](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-putriyana-asmarani/) - "The water washed crime scene in the gutter’s lane, but never the grief, the sins. The sugar cane and paddies trees, plantations, farms, industries— the Netherlands Indies"
- [Putin's Priorities: Toilets, Gay Pride and WWIII](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/putins-priorities-toilets-gay-pride-and-wwiii/) - Previously it was Kiev Nazism and NATO expansion, but two years on Russian authorities are finding new ways to justify continuing the war argues Dimitry Belyaev
- [Wouldn't You?](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/wouldnt-you/) - In new fiction Dominic Mallen revives the real life character of the Freemason Michael Maybric, who Bruce Robinson has claimed was the real 'Jack the Ripper.'
- [Poetry: Peter O'Malley](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-peter-omalley/) - Unpublished until now, Peter O'Malley poetry has been described as "spiritually refined, even cherubic in a Dionysian way, but slightly rough around the edges."
- [Poem: Fragments of a Litany](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-fragments-of-a-litany/) - Ciaran O'Rourke's new poem grieves: 'with the butchered gods of love / for Layan al-Baz, the young, the strong, / her soft arms cut by shrapnel, / her wounded leg a stump.
- [Ivor Browne R.I.P](https://cassandravoices.com/history/ivor-browne-r-i-p/) - Rob Coffey recalls the visionary qualities of Dr. Ivor Browne, in particular his pioneering work in psychedelics and his work in healing trauma.
- [The Emerald Delusion](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/the-emerald-delusion/) - Recalling Raymond Crotty's work, Frank Armstrong argues that a land tax could reform a system benefiting a small number of farmers at a high environmental cost.
- [Musician of the Month: Shortsleeve Conor](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-shortsleeve-conor/) - After moving to Lisbon gigs just seemed to happen for Shortsleeve Conor but there was always one problem question: “Have you got any of your music online?”
- [Allen Jones: Pulling the Trigger](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/allen-jones-pulling-the-trigger/) - Des Traynor interviews rock journalist Allen Jones who reveals his warm relationship with Lou Reed and how Van Morrison's attitude never dented his admiration.
- [The Late Risers’ Manifesto 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/the-late-risers-manifesto-2020/) - A response to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's appeal to early risers, and an argument for re-framing economic priorities towards human welfare.
- [Poem - 'Psalm'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-psalm/) - "All in the arms of physics and this is heaven we are blessed to happen in" 'Psalm is a new poem by Nicholas Battey. Image: Daniele Idini
- [Responsible Business](https://cassandravoices.com/history/responsible-business/) - Boidurjo Rick Mukhopadhyay argues it pays for businesses to be good, as a global survey shows two thirds of consumers are willing to pay for sustainable products.
- [Being Irish](https://cassandravoices.com/society/being-irish/) - David Langwallner recalls receiving comments like “go back to Austria Adolf” at school and at a debate in UCD being greeted with "Nein Danke Herr Langwallner".
- [Free Public Transport is Public Good Deliverable for Dublin (2019)](https://cassandravoices.com/society/transport/free-public-transport-is-a-public-good-deliverable-for-dublin/) - Contemplar argues that Free Public Transport is Public Good that can be delivered in Dublin which is now the third worst city for time spent sitting in traffic.
- [Fiction: Yer Man](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-yer-man/) - "White had long since ceased being a joiner. He was the most liminal of them all." 'Yer Man' is new fiction from Peter O'Neill
- [My Team / Your Team](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/my-team-your-team/) - In part one of an essay about supporting Manchester City Des Traynor recounts his origin story as a supporter and points to the Irish soccer commentariat’s bias
- [My Team / Your Team II](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/my-team-your-team-ii/) - Desmond Traynor continues his moral evaluation of top flight English soccer, rebutting frequently voiced criticisms of Manchester City’s current success.
- [My Team / Your Team III](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/my-team-your-team-iii/) - In the last part of his essay on being an Irish Man City fan Desmond Traynor delves into psychological and emotional reasons for sustaining sporting allegiances
- [A Poem for Refaat Alareer](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/a-poem-for-refaat-alareer/) - "your pen / outlives the bullets / of the eviscerator’s gun." From 'A Poem for Refaat Alareer' by Ciarán O'Rourke.
- [Musician of the Month: Cara Coyle](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-cara-coyle/) - Musician of the Month Cara Coyle is from Donegal but lives in Dublin. She sees each set of her songs having their own colours. Most recent songs have been pink.
- [Re-Imagining Dublin Port](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/re-imagining-dublin-port/) - Mieke Vanmechelen sees huge possibilities if land around Dublin Port is repurposed for high-density living, cultural spaces like the Tate Modern and agriculture
- [White Riot in Dublin](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/white-riot-in-dublin/) - David Langwallner argues for an increased Gardai presence but says introducing draconian laws will only inflame a situation that stems from neoliberal policies.
- [Shane MacGowan's Madonna](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/shane-macgowans-madonna/) - Rosita Sweetman reveals she never much liked Mary until Shane MacGowan turned her on to a powerful female icon. A warrior woman, ‘Calming her people’.
- [Classic Paddies](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/classic-paddies-2/) - Frank Armstrong accompanies former Pogues' lead singer Shane MacGowan on a night crossing across the Irish Sea before the launch of his London exhibition.
- [Classic Paddies](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/classic-paddies/) - Frank Armstrong accompanies former Pogues' lead singer Shane MacGowan on a night crossing across the Irish Sea before the launch of his London exhibition.
- [November Newsletter](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/november-newsletter/)
- [Irish Times’s Columnist Finn McRedmond](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/irish-timess-columnist-finn-mcredmond-in-2015-being-a-tory-does-not-make-you-a-bad-person/)
- [Fine Dining in Ireland During WWII](https://cassandravoices.com/history/fine-dining-in-ireland-during-wwii/) - Irish restaurants served as a forum for both Nazi sympathisers and opponents of the Reich, while Jammet's may have had the finest French cooking in the world.
- [Musician of the Month: Lewis Barfoot](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-lewis-barfoot/) - Musician of the Month Lewis Barefoot admits to loving winter. She finds the stillness and darkness supportive of creative work. Her new album HOME is out today
- [Late Art and Hackney Diamonds](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/late-art-and-hackney-diamonds/) - Commonly artists repeat earlier tropes or descend into kitsch but David Langwallner finds this is definitely not the case with the Rollings Stones latest album.
- [Poem: No Record of Wrongs](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-no-record-of-wrongs/) - "Love keeps a record of you singing to yourself, / tallies your tears." No Record of Wrongs is a new poem by Haley Hodges.
- [G.P. Practice: Foreshadowing Dystopia?](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/g-p-practice-foreshadowing-dystopia/) - Billy Ralph argues that moves by the HSE to measure health metrics in G.P. practice serves the interest of Pharma, and could foreshadow a dystopian future.
- [Why is the U.S. Supporting Israel?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/why-is-the-u-s-supporting-israel/) - Fra Hughes speculates that US support for Israel’s war on Gaza acts is a veiled threat to any nation considering joining a fledgling multi-polar world order.
- [The Vanishing Cat](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/the-vanishing-cat/) - Although Marcus de Brun describes General Practice as a like a religion sustained by patriarchal ideals he argues Irish family practice saved lives during Covid
- [The Empire Windrush](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/the-empire-windrush/) - Coinciding with Black History Month, U.K. band Dubwiser reveal what inspires some of their songs, including the war time service of their Caribbean grandparents
- [The Cult of Literary Narcissism](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-cult-of-literary-narcissism/) - Neil Burns argues that many writers seem more interested in being revered as ‘a writer’ than creating Art. The core issue he believes is a celebrity culture.
- [The Israeli Project](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/the-israeli-project/) - Rosita Sweetman considers the origins of the homeland for the Jewish people, as Gaza awaits an onslaught from Israel in the wake of the Hamas attack.
- [Musician of the Month: Anne Drees](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-anne-drees/) - After more than 30 years of making music Musician of the Month Anne Drees finally began playing the double bass, an instrument which had always enchanted her.
- [‘Don’t let me stop you from going for a swim’](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/dont-let-me-stop-you-from-going-for-a-swim/)
- [The Restaurant Experience](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-restaurant-experience/) - Frank Armstrong explores the origin of the restaurant experience and the art of food criticism. He argues that an elitist quality is a major part of its appeal.
- [Public Intellectuals: Thomas Mann](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/public-intellectuals-thomas-mann/) - David Langwallner resumes the Public Intellectuals with an account of Thomas Mann who began a German nationalist before becoming a staunch critic of the Nazis.
- [Bliain an Áir - 'The year of slaughter' 1740-41](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/bliain-an-air-the-year-of-slaughter-1740-41/) - "The lark-lit summer moors / were blank; the meadow-birds aghast." A new poem by Ciaran O'Rourke's recalls Ireland's 'forgotten famine' of 1740-41.
- [Canary](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/canary/) - UK-based composer and producer Sebastian Reynolds discusses the themes behind his debut album, Canary including the question of what lies beyond this world.
- [Recalling World Sculpture Park Changchun](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/recalling-world-sculpture-park-changchun/) - Garreth Byrne recalls a visit to Changchun World Sculpture Park which since the early 2000s has evolved in an eclectic and generally non-propagandist manner.
- [Ciaran Carson: The Dichotomy of Being](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/ciaran-carson-the-dichotomy-of-being/) - Neil Burns recalls his complicated relationship with the Belfast poet Ciaran Carson who he encountered in the often fractious atmosphere of Queens University.
- [The Death of Blake](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-death-of-blake/) - As he lies dying the poet determines that his wife's future happiness will reign over their parting, so he begins to sing. New fiction from Dominic Mallen
- [Ten Faery Tales for Our Time](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/ten-faery-tales-for-our-time/) - David Langwallner argues that we have been manipulated since childhood by faery tales, but nonetheless identifies a few of his favourite parables for our time.
- [Musician of the Month: Myriam Kammerlander](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-myriam-kammerlander/) - Myriam Kammerlander believes that art provides a perspective to look at during bumpy times, a bit like humour. Her band gerda vejle play in Ireland soon...
- [Liking Lockdown](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/liking-lockdown/) - Desmond Traynor reveals how he grew to love the sequestered state, to the extent that he still has not fully readjusted to things being ‘back to normal’.
- [Waking Up](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/waking-up/) - "All have better things to countenance than their own permanance. It’s baffling that we are so saddled, knocked over by the whole picture. Nicholas Battey
- [Open](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/open/) - ‘Your mother said you threw yourself from an upstairs window. Were you trying to kill yourself?’ 'No, I just wasn’t ready.’ 'Open' is new fiction by Emer Mullen
- [Disturbing Developments in Criminal Justice in Ireland](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/disturbing-developments-in-criminal-justice-in-ireland/) - Barrister David Langwallner argues we are becoming “overly habituated to the abnormal”, as unspecified threats are used to permit invasive emergency powers.
- [The Secret Garden](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-secret-garden/) - "nothing I can’t handle yet, my body holds out still as fifty approaches like an old friend I have fallen out with." From The Secret Garden by Dominic Mallen.
- [How I Remember Her](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-how-i-remember-her/) - She trembles when I pet her hair, She conceals what I have learned to love. With every fight I lose her brazen flair from 'How I Remember Her' by Michaela Brady
- [Facilitating the Dirty Business of the State](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/facilitating-the-dirty-business-of-the-state/) - Barrister David Langwallner argues that in Ireland the behaviour of the police does not warrant a watering down of the strict exclusionary rule.
- [Gay?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/gay/) - Faggot; Queer; Bent; Gayboy; Bender; Fruit, were names Neil Burns heard levied at him when growing up in Belfast, causing him to question his sexual identity.
- [Hitching the Plough to the Stars](https://cassandravoices.com/history/hitching-the-plough-to-the-stars/) - Paul O’Brien’s new book argues Sean O'Casey's failure to accommodate the 'green' of Nationalism with the 'red' of Labour was the triumph and tragedy of his life
- [Parallel Weekend](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/paralell-weekend/) - “Ah so you just dance like no-one is watching?” I laughed at that. “Can I kiss you?” he asked. A nasty surprise awaits at the end of a debauched Dublin weekend.
- [Poem: A Partial Epitaph](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-a-partial-epitaph/) - Approaching the 220th anniversary of the trial and execution of Robert Emmet, in a new poem Philip McDonagh sees our grá for justice as his memorial.
- [The Giant Hare of Cloondarone](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/the-giant-hare-of-cloondarone/) - Re-listening to The Waterboy's Fisherman's Blues, Dara Waldon's recalls the West of Ireland he once knew, scattering ashes of memory as far as Ballyconneelly.
- [Julian Lloyd: Pure Luck and Happenstance](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/julian-lloyd-pure-luck-and-happenstance/) - An exhibition of Julian Lloyd's photography is on display in the Horse Gallery, Dublin. It features many of his rock 'n' roll friends, including Nick Drake.
- [The End of RTÉ's "Drive Time" Omertá](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/the-end-of-rtes-drive-time-omerta/) - Following his own 2018 "Drive Time" article, and the editor's follow-up, Stephen Court argues that this publication was effectively "cancelled" by RTE.
- [Unmasking the Tawdry Yarns](https://cassandravoices.com/history/unmasking-the-tawdry-yarns/) - Eamonn Kelly reviews Marianna Mazzucato's The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy which unmask the tawdry yarns of modern capitalism.
- [RTÉ: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/rte-wrap-your-troubles-in-dreams/) - Ryan Tubridy’s relentless chirpiness recalls the Depression-era song, popularised by Bing Crosby: ‘Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream your Troubles Away)’
- [Hard at It - A Short Story](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/hard-at-it-a-short-story/)
- [John Betjeman's Love Affair with Ireland](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/john-betjemans-love-affair-with-ireland/) - Bernadette Gorman reviews Dominic Moseley’s Betjeman in Ireland, where he exhibited a ‘particular’ fondness for ‘people who had gone to seed’.
- [RTÉ Says: ‘Stars’ In Their Own Cars](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/rte-says-stars-in-their-own-cars/)
- [Drive Time: The Irish Media's Message](https://cassandravoices.com/society/transport/drive-time-the-irish-medias-message/)
- [Weighing up Ireland’s Hate Crime Law](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/weighing-up-irelands-hate-crime-law/) - Human Rights barrister David Langwallner weighs up Ireland's new hate law legislation. He fears certain measures will be used to stifle debate and ridicule.
- [The Implications of Evolution](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/the-implications-of-evolution/) - Alan Tuffery agrees that evolution is the greatest idea ever, as it provides a key concept to make sense of us and our world. He summarises its implications.
- [The Myth of the Spiritual Contract](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-myth-of-the-spiritual-contract/) - Having grown to understand that yoga is no panacea for depression, Chris Parkison no longer views his practice as another contractual transaction.
- [Poetry: Haley Hodges](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-haley-hodges-5/) - "God I am always wanting / Wanting wanting wanting I am / Always wanting in or out of the balance," 'Belshazzar' is a new poem by Haley Hodges.
- [Michel Houllebecq and the End of History](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/michel-houllebecq-and-the-end-of-history/) - Inspired by Michel Houllebecq’s novel Atomised, Ben Pantrey considers the endurance of the Christian idea of the apocalypse in contemporary debates.
- [Pietas in Richard Kearney's Novel Salvage](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/pietas-in-richard-kearneys-novel-salvage/) - Ronan Sheehan identifies a reverence for tradition in Richard Kearney's novel Salvage, which is set on Oileán Bhríde or Rabbit Island in West Cork.
- [SUVs: A Symbol of Our Demise](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/suvs-a-symbol-of-our-demise/) - Peter O'Neill argues that SUVs are symbolic of the fundamental ills of the Western world, including a failure to recognise the importance of metaphor itself.
- [Requiem for a Profession](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/requiem-for-a-profession/) - Frank Armstrong charts the decline of journalism & argues a lack of investigative reporting in legacy media in Ireland and elsewhere is undermining democracy.
- [Nicholas Battey: April Light](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/nicholas-battey-april-light/) - With the month of April drawing to a close, in a new poem Nicholas Battey has "let the world of people go / in favour of growing / spring evenings".
- [Reform of Defamation Law in Ireland](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/reform-of-defamation-law-in-ireland/) - David Langwallner welcomes proposed reductions to casino capitalism defamation awards, but wonders if reforms will protect the powerful and curtail free speech.
- [Poetry: It Isn't Just a House](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-it-isnt-just-a-house/) - "It isn’t just a house. It's our beloved home"
- [In Memoriam: Moira Woods](https://cassandravoices.com/society/in-memoriam-moira-woods/) - Rosita Sweetman recalls the extraordinary life of Dr. Moira Woods, a founding member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement after her recent passing.
- [Tunnel Vision in Chișinău, Moldova](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/tunnel-vision-in-chisinau-moldova/) - At the height of pandemic Gary Farrelly visited Chișinău, Moldova’s capital where tunnels cannot be avoided due to epic wide boulevards in this post-Soviet city
- [Napoli: It Hurts](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/napoli-it-hurts/) - It's a great time to be a Napoli FC supporter, but despite the positive impact wherever he goes Diego Pugliese is confronted by the same unbearable clichés.
- [Eviction Ban: Towards an Unjust Society](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/eviction-ban-towards-an-unjust-society/) - David Langwallner and Cillian Doyle argue that the last hope for thousands facing eviction rests on a last-minute legal challenge to the lifting of the ban.
- [COVID-19: Shame on You](https://cassandravoices.com/society/covid-19-shame-on-you/) - Frank Armstrong reviews a new book exploring the use of shame by the British government under Boris Johnson as a form of coercive control during the lockdowns.
- [Voyaging the Kerribrasilian Sea](https://cassandravoices.com/history/voyaging-the-kerribrasilian-sea/) - Bartholomew Ryan recalls a journey into the heart of Brazil in pursuit of the ghost of his cousin Patrick who drowned in the Jaguaribe River in Iguatu in 1973
- [COVID-19 in Ireland: Lives Lost](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/covid-19-in-ireland-lives-lost/) - Frank Armstrong argues we shouldn't rule out vaccines causing 'among the worst' excess death figures in 50 years, but identifies a more likely reason for this.
- [Poem: Hope in Despair](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-hope-in-despair/) - "Be not fraught with the weight and trouble of your servitude, but rather cherish the day and be more aware of it harbouring amplitude." Sound advice...
- [The Cruel End Result of the Affair](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/the-cruel-end-result-of-the-affair/) - In the wake of Leo Varadkar’s Washington gaffe , Rosita Sweetman unflinchingly recalls the details of the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
- [Thought Leadership Required for Climate and Biodiversity Crisis](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/thought-leadership-required-for-climate-and-biodiversity-crisis/)
- [Poetry: Marc Di Saverio](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-marc-di-saverio-3/) - "when I was Prufrock-positive / of mermaids never singing to me, either, / of a life without betrothal or progeny" Four poems from Canadian poet Marc di Saverio
- [Leitrim's Glass Half-Full](https://cassandravoices.com/society/leitrims-glass-half-full/) - Everything You Wanted to Know About Leitrim But Were Afraid to Ask. 1980s blow-in Garreth Byrne reveals there is gold in those hills, which should be kept there
- [Greece: An Accident Waiting to Happen](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/greece-an-accident-waiting-to-happen/) - Grieving is giving way to anger in Greece in the wake of the fatal Larissa train crash as details emerge of the circumstances that led to the tragedy.
- [OPLA: An Oireachtas within the Oireachtas](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/opla-an-oireachtas-within-the-oireachtas/) - OPLA was set up to assist TDs with private members bills. It is now a bloated entity frustrating Dail enquiries, PQs and breaching the Separation of Powers.
- [Musician of the Month: Magdalena Jacob](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-magdalena-jacob/) - Having grown up in small village in Bavaria Magdalena Jacob moved to Berlin. She has recently come out as a clown as she can’t take herself seriously any longer
- [Smartphone usage is impacting society, but how?](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/smartphone-usag-is-impacting-society-but-how/)
- [A Golden Shower](https://cassandravoices.com/society/a-golden-shower/) - After resigning his Dublin practice and moving on to a new life in county Leitrim, Marcus de Brun learns the NCT is just “a multi-million money making racket”.
- [Poetry: Rhys Mumford](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-rhys-mumford/) - "centred, in equilibrium ... the Platonic ideal of a Archimedean lever. Rhys Mumford "pulled the door towards me / with balance, fluidity and poise."
- [Privatisation is the Enemy](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/privatisation-is-the-enemy/) - From Direct Provision in Ireland to Russia's Wagner Group and US use of private firms in wars and prisons, Eamonn Kelly identifies Privatisation as the Enemy.
- [Finding Your Voice After Trauma](https://cassandravoices.com/society/finding-your-voice-after-trauma/) - Timothée Cueff disputes the idea that time is a great healer, as it puts a quantifiable value on trauma and creates an excuse for people to stop listening.
- [Poetry: Gratitude](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-gratitude/) - "London is Open— But when is a kind word spoken" A new poem by Michaela Brady muses on the contradictions of the great metropolis.
- [Housing: Vacancy and Dereliction](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/housing-vacancy-and-dereliction/) - Frank Armstrong calls on Government to act decisively and imaginatively to allow more people to live in rural Ireland as a way of addressing the housing crisis.
- [Interview On The Liffey](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/interview-on-the-liffey/) - City Kayaking began taking litter out of the Liffey on their tours 10 years ago. They've seen little expertise in Dublin City Council but attitudes are changing
- [Climate Change: What’s Driving us Crazy?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/climate-change-whats-driving-us-crazy/) - Frank Armstrong identifies a shift in the approach of elites who now see opportunities in climate change, but argues spiralling inequalities inhibit action.
- [Kevin Higgins: 1967-2023](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/kevin-higgins-1967-2023/) - The poet Kevin Higgins railed against literary elites that ignored spiraling inequality and outright cruelty. Not even the Irish President was spared his satire
- [Poetry: Commuting with Baudelaire](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-commuting-with-baudelaire/) - In an irreverent new poem Peter O'Neill commutes (or is it communes?) with Baudelaire as he resists a gentlemanly impulse to offer his seat.
- [Irish Prison Service Whistleblower: The Strange Story of Sean O'Brien](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/irish-prison-service-whistleblower-the-strange-story-of-sean-obrien/) - Sean O'Brien awaits vindication 34 years after an incident in Portlaoise Prison which saw him recapture an IRA prisoner who was about to be extradited to the UK
- [Island State](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/island-state/) - "If Letterman looks a little orange on camera, then he’s ruddy as a horse under the lights." 'Island State' is new fiction by Gareth Stack.
- [Brazil's Pandemic Reaches Crisis Point](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/brazils-pandemic-reaches-crisis-point/) - With the pandemic raging again in Brazil, photo-journalist André Lucas reveals stories of hope and survival as staff perform wonders in makeshift hospitals.
- [Poem: 'Congratulations' by Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-congratulations-by-kevin-higgins/) - Kevin Higgins responds to what he describes as a terrible long poem taking one side in a war in a most crude and unthinking way by identifying 3 types of poets.
- [The Origins of Poetic Creation](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-origins-of-poetic-creation/)
- [Poetry: Michaela Brady](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-michaela-brady-2/) - "Could I spend an eternity here? If I lassoed eternal dusks, If you were caught as well, All our present woes would rust In Atlantic’s alabaster swells."
- [Sport in the Neoliberal Zeitgeist](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/sport-in-the-neoliberal-zeitgeist/) - Sports coverage underpins a neoliberal zeitgeist providing an alternative, apolitical, space with elements of tragedy and farce argues Frank Armstrong.
- [Musician of the Month: Barry O'Halpin](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-barry-ohalpin/) - Guitarist Barry O’Halpin was invited to join Crash Ensemble as a Composer-in-Residence in 2017. His "Wingform" was finally played to a live audience in 2022.
- [When I’m Allowed Leave The Cancer Ward](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/when-im-allowed-leave-the-cancer-ward/) - Kevin Higgins plans a new Irish Literary Awards ceremony for "least authentic / poetry collection, most intellectually empty / novel, most cowardly book review"
- [Covid-19 in Ireland: Why and How?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/covid-19-in-ireland-why-and-how/) - As the fundamental flaws in our response to Covid 19 become increasingly apparent, the questions of why and how this occurred still loom large.
- [Fragment Number 64](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fragment-number-64/) - "you have an almost ludicrous situation where heterosexual men have almost been banished from the public spectrum of debate.." New fiction by Peter O’Neill
- [Advent Poem by Haley Hodges](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/advent-by-poem-haley-hodges/) - "Long endurance of darkness is not light, But speaks of a belief that light’s radiance Merits enduring long in the dim we know— In the dusk we are" Haley Hodges
- [Welcome to the Jungle](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/welcome-to-the-jungle/) - Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) takes a butcher's blade to the American Dream. Frank Armstrong explores why it depicts the Irish so unfavourably.
- [Nurse Amy Gallagher Takes Woke to Court](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/nurse-amy-gallagher-takes-woke-to-court/) - While on a training course, nurse and psychotherapist Amy Gallagher took issue when she was told there is “inherent racism in all white people.”
- [Poetry: Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-10/) - In a new poem, 'Formation of a Young Irish Intellectual' Kevin Higgins says 'as soon as you enter this building ... You will be in favour of all the right wars'
- [Open Mics or Open Micks?](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/open-mics-or-open-micks/) - Peter O'Neill immediately twitch with an almost intolerable discomfort when he hears the words freedom and equality. He bemoans the effect on arts festivals.
- [OPLA Erodes Irish Democracy](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/opla-erodes-irish-democracy/) - Bernadette Gorman explains why the Office on the Parliamentary Legal Advisor is delivering a hammer blow to Irish democracy by amending parliamentary questions.
- [Circular Economy: ‘Make-Use-Return’](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/circular-economy-make-use-return/) - The concept of ‘sustainability’ is often used interchangeably with the Circular Economy, but this is rather misleading as Boidurjo Rick Mukhopadhyay explains
- [Poetry: Peter O'Neill](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-peter-oneill-4/) - "Fate drops like a Stone in the water / Troubling the stillness with ripples outward" Peter O'Neill celebrates Dublin scenes in new poems.
- [60 Bucks for Life](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/60-bucks-for-life/) - Emmanuel Clark is serving a life sentence for first degree murder in Baltimore over 20 years ago. Recently the The Innocence Project agreed to take up his case.
- [Dust in your Eyes: War and its Image](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/dust-in-your-eyes-war-and-its-image/) - Daniele Idini ask what it mean when the existence of nuclear arsenals capable of causing our premature extinction are carelessly normalized as facts of life?
- [Musician(s) of the Month: Rezo](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musicians-of-the-month-rezo/) - Rezo are friends Colm O’Connell & Rory McDaid. Borne largely out of Covid (Rezo means “I pray” in Spanish) their debut album Travalog was released in May 2021.
- [The Big House: Censorship of the Medical Profession in Ireland](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/the-big-house-censorship-of-the-medical-profession-in-ireland/) - "A whisper at the school gate or a snub in the supermarket." Marcus de Brun reveals the impacts of medical censorship and stigmatisation on dissenting doctors.
- [Poetry: Michaela Brady](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-michaela-brady/) - "But where are you when I awake? / Where are you, voice beneath music," words from a new poem 'Uaigneas (Dán do m’athair)' by Michaela Brady.
- [Poetry: Nicholas Battey](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-nicholas-battey-2/) - "Here my mulling days are numbered, / pride in appearance doomed;" New poetry by Nicholas Battey on an Autumnal theme.
- [Psychedelic Eucharist](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/psychedelic-eucharist/) - Dr Billy Ralph explores why psychedelic practices have been persecuted rather than exalted as a means to transcendence and spiritual enlightenment.
- [An Irish Poet Attains Greatness](https://cassandravoices.com/history/an-irish-poet-attains-greatness/)
- [The Candidates Explain](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/the-candidates-explain/) - Kevin Higgins's new poem responds to a UK Labour MP giving out leaflets in a local election campaign promising to keep travellers/gypsies/Roma out of the area.
- [Niall McDevitt (1967-2022)](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/niall-mcdevitt-1967-2022/) - Niall McDevitt, ‘arguably the most significant London-Irish poet since W.B. Yeats’, and ‘a luminous custodian of the great poetic mysteries,’ has passed away.
- [How Irish Propaganda Operates](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/how-irish-propaganda-operates/)
- [Donal Fallon's Burning Question](https://cassandravoices.com/history/donal-fallons-burning-question/) - Frank Armstrong reviews a new book by Donal Fallon that uses twelve streets of Dublin to encompass a vast history that touches on contemporary concerns.
- [Podcast: Brazilian Election Special](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/podcast-brazilian-election-special/) - Bolsonaro "has already won this election". Fellipe Lopes joins Frank Armstrong to discuss the outcome of the first round of the Presidential election.
- ["Shameless" Women of Iran Unite](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/shameless-women-of-iran-unite/) - Trembling with fear her mother hit her in the face and uttered the word “behaya” "shameless." Women from Iran speak out against the veil, patriarchy and Islam.
- [Musician of the Month: Bróna McVittie](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-brona-mcvittie/) - Growing up in a rambling country house Brona McVittie was always looking out for the fairies. Later, after falling for a local outcast she picked up guitar.
- [Podcast: Italian Election Special](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/podcast-italian-election-special/) - Frank Armstrong is joined by Daniele Idini and Massimiliano Galli to discuss the resounding victory of the Right or Far-Right in the Italian election.
- [Maasai Forced off Land by UAE Royals](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/maasai-forced-off-land-by-uae-royals/) - Rosita Sweetman draws attention to hundreds of thousands of Maasai being driven from their ancestral lands in Tanzan to make way for big game hunting.
- [Forty Footer](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/forty-footer/) - Barry Delaney tells the story behind 'Forty Footer'a picture of Tim, shortisted for the Zurich Portrait which will hang in the National Gallery from December.
- [Cost of Living: Digging for Victory](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/cost-of-living-digging-for-victory/) - Frank Armstrong explores the origins and endurance of the perception that organic produce is ‘posh’ food, and that horticulture is an aristocratic fad.
- [Alice Rekab: Family Lines](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/alice-rekab-family-lines/) - Mieke Vanmechelen reviews an exhibition by Alice Rekab in the Douglas Hyde Gallery exploring narratives emerging from a mixed Irish/Sierra Leonean identity.
- [Guglielmo Marconi's Irish Connections](https://cassandravoices.com/history/guglielmo-marconis-irish-connections/) - Marconi's mother and first wife were Irish. He sent the first TransAtlantic wireless transmission from Clifden as Concetto La Malfa's short film reveals.
- [Covid-19 Absurdities](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/covid-19-absurdities/) - Was it the sight of Luke O'Neill inside a zorb on live television or the €9 meal that best captured the absurdity? GP Billy Ralph revists extraordinary times.
- [Three Parables / Short Tales](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/three-parables-short-tales/) - Nina Kossman introduces a girl on the run from her date of birth; a poet who is required to compose every day, and a soul that has been freed from its body.
- [Poetry: Peter O'Neill](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-peter-oneill-3/) - Dublin, that old whore, with her piss -stained pavements / Abruptly transforms into a woman of a certain station. Peter O'Neill makes poetry out of the everyday
- [COVID-19: Torches of Freedom](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/covid-19-torches-of-freedom/) - Frank Armstrong explores how Big Pharma & Tech along with so-called stakeholder capitalism associated support for universal vaccine uptake with the radical left
- [About Queen Elizabeth in a Soviet Childhood](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/about-queen-elizabeth-in-a-soviet-childhood/) - Nina Kossman recalls seeing Queen Elizabeth as a youngish woman during her Soviet childhood. This image would prove to be very valuable...
- [enuff](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/enuff/) - "live long enuff yoolhear enuff bang – yool vibe off protest songs yoor parents sang –" Poet John Cummins has had 'enuff' (text and audio).
- [Poetry: Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-9/) - Poet Kevin Higgins assumes the persona of his namesake President Michael D. Higgins to reflect on recent events...
- [The Best Neoliberal Country in Europe](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/the-best-neoliberal-country-in-europe/) - Trudy Hayes argues that civic-minded citizens leading a virtuous life is not a religious concept but about creating a society based on shared collective values.
- [Musician of the Month: Niamh McKinney](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-niamh-mckinney/) - For a long time Musician of the Month Niamh McKinney felt she needed a creative outlet but didn’t know what it should be. Then she found out how to layer tracks
- [Spina Bifida Parents Demand Treatment](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/spina-bifida-parents-demand-treatment/) - Timely access to care is of the utmost importance to children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. A new parental advocacy group is demanding immediate action.
- [No Comment: Hands Off Fibbers!](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/no-comment-hands-off-fibbers/) - Music lovers gather outside the Holiday Inn on O'Connell Street today to protest a plan to close Fibber Magee's beer garden in order to extend the hotel.
- [Poetry: Haley Hodges](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-haley-hodges-4/) - "the truth About men is: I’ve yet To meet one unwilling To believe he is a singularly Exceptional lover—yeah, baby." 'Faking It' is new poetry from Haley Hodges
- [The Barrington Disconnect](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-barrington-disconnect/) - Pat McLoughlin recalls the sad fate of Winne Barrington, daughter of Charles Barrington of Glenstal Castle, which might have become the President's residence.
- [A Greek Watergate Unfolds](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/a-greek-watergate-unfolds/) - A Greek wiretapping scandal involving the use of illegal Predator spyware is threatening to bring down the New Democracy government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
- [Poetry: Edward Clarke](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-edward-clarke-2/) - "O how could I order that tuna and chips, / And sip my beer and gaze at yachts and cruise ships" 'At Rudy's Bar, Alassio' is new poetry from Edward Clarke.
- [Musician of the Month: John Buckley McQuaid](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-john-buckley-mcquaid/) - John Buckley McQuaid's new album "This Is Where I Keep My Dreams" explores how we have got from the passion and ideals of 1916 to the prevalent malaise of 2022.
- [Italy: Is Super Mario's Party Over?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/italy-is-super-marios-party-over/) - With the fall of Mario Draghi's broad coalition, opinion polls are saying a far-right government will come to power. Daniele Idini explores what happens next.
- [Interview with Concetto La Malfa](https://cassandravoices.com/society/interview-with-concetto-la-malfa/) - Frank Armstrong interviews veteran Italian journalist Concetto La Malfa to discuss his almost sixty years in Ireland, and his reflections on the War in Ukraine.
- [Varadkar off the Hook: Questions Remain](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/varadkar-off-the-hook-questions-remain/) - Failure to prosecute sets dangerous precedent and Martin Fraser's appointment to London embassy should be examined argues former civil servant Bernadette Gorman
- [Public Intellectuals: Hannah Arendt](https://cassandravoices.com/history/public-intellectuals-hannah-arendt/) - With her acute understanding and lived experience of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt is perhaps the most important of the public intellectuals for our time.
- [A Fair Deal for Dublin](https://cassandravoices.com/society/a-fair-deal-for-dublin/) - Former Dublin Lord Mayor and long-time Labour councillor Dermot Lacey makes an impassioned call for a directly elected Mayor and a new Dublin Regional Assembly.
- [North as Religious Experience](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/north-as-religious-experience/) - Over lockdown Dara Waldron grew fascinated by the 1921 killing of Winnie Barrington. This chimed with Van Morrison's music and led to dreams of a journey North.
- [Wornington Word](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/wornington-word/) - In words and images Kevin Percival reveals the story of London's Wornington Word, where a multicultural identity is being steadily diluted by gentrification.
- [All Black Inception](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/all-black-inception/) - Having witnessed the end of the myth of All Black invincibility against Ireland, Patrick Stephenson wonders whether we're seeing the inception of a new idea.
- [Burren Bliss](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/burren-bliss/) - Morgan Bolger feels a renewed sense of corporeal freedom and is learning to transcend more easily the clints and grykes of his mind, moods, and emotions.
- [Varadkar Leak: Broaden the Investigation](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/varadkar-leak-broaden-the-investigation/) - Bernadette Gorman argues for a wider investigation into the role of top civil servants in then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s leaking of G.P. contract in 2019.
- [Girl Without Mercy](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/girl-without-mercy/) - A fictional silver screen actresssits down with a journalist to reveal how Johnny Valiant’s old-fashioned English manners belie breath that smells of sardines.
- [Theatre: The Battle of Kildare Place](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/theatre-the-battle-of-kildare-place/) - A new Walkabout Theatre production brings two sisters together with very different views on Dublin's architectural heritage and their father's legacy.
- [Musician of the Month: Dan Trueman](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-dan-trueman/) - Growing up Dan Trueman found the sound off Classical violin unsatisfying. This led him to a Hardanger fiddle then the development of a completely new instrument
- [A Variety of Voices](https://cassandravoices.com/history/a-variety-of-voices/) - Frank Armstrong completes his review of histories of dissenting journalism in 20th century Ireland, and includes a tribute to John Ryan's www.broadsheet.ie.
- [Notes to Self on the Pending Passing of a Loved One](https://cassandravoices.com/society/notes-to-self-on-the-pending-passing-of-a-loved-one/) - Justin McCarthy offers sage advice to anyone confronting the imminent departure of a loved one.
- [All About Amy](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/all-about-amy/) - As alumni of the same New Orleans convent school, Ilsa Monique Carter might have developed similar ideas to Amy Coney Barrett, but life taught her otherwise.
- [HEY POCKY WAY](https://cassandravoices.com/society/hey-pocky-way/) - "If you were from Orleans Parish like me, at this stage you’d break into a funk tune by The Mighty Meters, ‘HEY POCKY WAY.’" Another rollicking ride through her New Orleans past from Ilsa Monique Carter
- [Old School](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/old-school/) - "A child is a sponge, able to absorb the plethora of Playboy and Cosmopolitan's iconic chronicles accumulating on the coffee table." Old School is Ilsa Monique's hilarious account of a New Orleans childhood..
- [Seamus Deane: An Appreciation](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/seamus-deane-an-appreciation/) - Ronan Sheehan recalls Seamus Deane unveiling an idea that politics and literature are closely linked in a UCD lecture on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent.
- [A Brief History of My Father](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/a-brief-history-of-my-father/) - "the mothers were warm, the fathers diffident". Denys Candy recalls a 1960s childhood in Dublin, including witnessing Irish troops setting out for the Congo.
- [Ballad of Lucy Kryton](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/ballad-of-lucy-kryton/) - Her fiscal policy is dampness moving / down other people’s walls. Kevin Higgins recalls his Ballad of Lucy Kryton in the wake of her criticism of the President.
- [Adoring the Artifice of Paul Quin](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/adoring-the-artifice-of-paul-quin/) - Synthesiser-drenched ballads, a return to music after an extended hiatus and sustaining creativity under lockdown – inside the trials and triumphs of Paul Quin.
- [Ecstasy of Truth Finally Spoken](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/ecstasy-of-truth-finally-spoken/) - Russian-born writer based in Ireland Polina Cosgrave describes Kevin Higgins as the Daniel Kahneman of poetry in her review of his new volume of poetry Ecstatic
- [Musician of the Month: Sebastian Reynolds](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-sebastian-reynolds/) - Sebastian Reynolds regards the facility to preserve sound over decades a truly magical phenomena. His Athletics EP draws on heartbreaking loss, running and more
- [Mysticism for the Modern Skeptic](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/mysticism-for-the-modern-skeptic/) - Christopher Parkison finds chasing the right answer to be an intellectual addiction. A recent yoga retreat in India acquainted him with a higher wisom.
- [Poetry: Haley Hodges](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-haley-hodges-3/) - "I believe / In one gun, in One Gun Almighty. / How fast can you run?” New poetry from Haley Hodges revisits the terrible events in Uvalde, Texas.
- [Writing Against the Grain](https://cassandravoices.com/history/writing-against-the-grain/) - In the first of two reviews, Frank Armstrong revisits ‘the fulcrum on which the intellectual foundations of Irish society moved – slowly, but irrevocably.’
- [On (the) Money](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/on-the-money/) - In a wide ranging essay Des Traynor argues the Protestant Work Ethic is a just a neat trick to get some people to slave their guts out for other people's profit
- [It Is Good We Are Dreaming](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/it-is-good-we-are-dreaming/) - A new play at Dublin's New Theatre explores the kind of conversations going on among the much maligned Generation Z. The author reveals what to expect.
- [And the Flesh was Made Word](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/and-the-flesh-was-made-word/) - A new book reviewed by Brendan O'Donoghue connects diverse philosophies and works created by the ‘secret orchestra’ of Fernando Pessoa’s poetic soul.
- [Covid-19 in Ireland: Pandemonium](https://cassandravoices.com/society/covid-19-in-ireland-pandemonium/) - Frank Armstrong reviews a new book on the Irish government's response Covid-19 and wonders whether it will be said once again: “We didn’t know, no one told us”
- [Musician of the Month: Martin Mackie](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-martin-mackie/) - Martin Mackie's new album considers the Irish relationship with booze. One song was inspired by a weird dream or maybe an hallucination about Christy Moore...
- [Musician of the Month: Giulia Gallina](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-giulia-gallina/) - Musician of the Month Giulia Gallina has drawn inspiration from gloomy piano composers, slowness in the fashion of the flâneurs and the noise of crushed leaves.
- [RTE Kitsch: Room to Improve](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/rte-kitsch-room-to-improve/) - Frank Armstrong examines RTE kitsch on Dermot Bannon's Room To Improve, which allows shit to be denied and for everyone to act as though it doesn't exist.
- [New Music Out of Lesbos: Erantzun](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/new-music-out-of-lesbos-erantzun/) - Directed by Yaser Akbari, an Afghan asylum-seeker from Iran, Basque rapper Zekan Askalari’s latest track ‘Erantzun’ calls on people to wake up to injustices.
- [Looking for Scraps](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/looking-for-scraps/) - Walking to the beach Sam Noonan urges himself to walk slower, and finds his eyes following a seal slumping into the waves, a limp stillness in the ebb and flow.
- [Fiction Reader’s Block](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/fiction-readers-block/) - Despite being an avid reader, Mark Venner is unable to read literary fiction, but is unbothered as his view of the world does not have to be textually generated
- [The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/the-love-poetry-of-judas-iscariot/) - Peter O'Neill reviews a new collection of poems by Mick Corrigan, which he suggests identify an enduring theme of betrayal in Irish culture.
- [War Crimes: Collective Guilt](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/war-crimes-collective-guilt/) - With Russia accused of Genocide over its conducts since the invasion of Ukraine, Frank Armstrong points to the problematic origins of this charge.
- [Common Concerns: John Clare & Other Ghosts](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/common-concerns-john-clare-other-ghosts/) - Recalling his grandparents in the landscape of North Leitrim, Ciaran O'Rourke is drawn to the so-called 'peasant poet' of the late Romantic period John Clare.
- [Musician of the Month: Matilde Politi](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-matilde-politi/) - When Matilde Politi realized she was living in an era directed by a total cultural monopoly she began reviving shreds of a feminine subaltern culture in song.
- [Refugee Pushbacks in the Balkans](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/refugee-pushbacks-in-the-balkans/) - Caring for victims of razor-wired fences on the Hungarian-Serbian border, nurse Kathy James wonders: where is the compassion for these refugees?
- [Dublin Anti-War Protest for Yemen](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/dublin-anti-war-protest-for-yemen/) - A month on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European states, including Ireland, are faced with some of the most significant challenges in decades. How should the West react? With humanitarian aid? With issuing a welcome to refugees? With weapons? With direct military interventions such as imposing a ‘no fly zone’ and therefore potentially extending the
- [Cassandra Voices Podcast: Loafing Hero](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/cassandra-voices-podcast-loafing-hero/) - In our latest podcast Ben Pantrey meets Bartholomew Ryan (a.k.a. Loafing Hero) to discuss his latest album Jabuti as well as the wider creative process.
- [Operation Mass Formation](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/operation-mass-formation/) - Claire O'Driscoll explores how RTE's Operation Transformation influences behaviour to create conditions for what Mattias Desmet describes as mass formation.
- [Bob Quinn's Bog Graffiti](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/bob-quinns-bog-grafitti/) - Bob Quinn's film 'Bog Grafitti' brilliantly conveys the looming threat of climate change. Frank Armstrong introduces a film freely available for the first time
- [The Importance of Public Debate](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-importance-of-public-debate/) - David Langwallner arges that freedom of speech, a central hallmark of a democracy encouraging diversity and tolerance, is under serious threat from social media
- [What is Freedom?](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/what-is-freedom/) - Drawing on dialogue between Krishnamurti and Bohm, Ryan Matters explores how knowledge can take on an absolute signficance and block us from attaining freedom.
- [On the Nature of Evil](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/on-the-nature-of-evil/) - Rob Coffey recalls a close encounter with Vladimir Putin and explores the often obscured pyschological projections that lie behind evil deeds.
- [Poetry: Peter O'Neill](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-peter-oneill-2/) - "hatred can only burn for so long before eventually capitulating..." Peter O'Neill's poetry engages with events having a direct impact on our lives.
- [Travels in Ukraine 2015](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/travels-in-ukraine-2015/) - Frank Armstrong recalls his travels through Ukraine in 2015 with words and images, at a time when the drumbeat of war was already evident.
- [Lessons from the Great Depression III](https://cassandravoices.com/history/lessons-from-the-great-depression-iii/) - David Langwallner examines artists including George Orwell, L.S. Lowry and Jean Renoir that explored the conditions that gave rise to fascim in the 1930s.
- [Musician of the Month: Ian Fisher](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-ian-fisher/) - Rolling Stone magazine describes this month's Musician of the Month Ian Fisher's music as "half Americana and half Abbey Road-worthy pop”.
- [Homer](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/homer/) - Whereas his father shares the ‘core values’ of the many, White opposes these, thereby accepting a life of solitude. 'Homer' is new fiction by Peter O'Neill.
- [The Fog of Law](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/the-fog-of-law/) - During the pandemic in July 2020 the government introduced an Act allowing banks and Vulture funds to use hearsay evidence to citizens' great disadvantage.
- [Into the River](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/into-the-river/) - “Do you good to get out of Dublin anyway for a while,” he says. “Clear your head.” But tranquillity is spoilt by a scary incident in fiction by Andrew McEneff
- [George Monbiot's Hall of Mirrors](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/george-monbiots-hall-of-mirrors/) - Frank Armstrong reaches peak George Monbiot recalling a long record of flip-flopping and dubious ethics that reached a high water mark in response to COVID-19
- [On Being Old](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/on-being-old/) - After a recent accident at the age of eighty-six, Bob Quinn concludes his generation are a dysfunctional burden on the young and fit. But he’s not despairing.
- [When Did You Notice That Smoking is Over?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/when-did-you-notice-that-smoking-is-over/)
- [Vanishing Ireland: Taking the Waters](https://cassandravoices.com/society/vanishing-ireland-taking-the-waters/) - Since time immemorial the Holy Wells dotted around the Irish countryside have exerted an attraction. Garrett Byrne explores a few sites recalling a bygone age.
- [Poetry: Lucinda Kowol](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-lucinda-kowol/) - From Lucinda Kowol: "I start at the outside mowing in until there is only a thin rectangle left. Then that too is smooth, flat as the oblong of your grave."
- [The Brick Wall: Access to Justice](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-brick-wall-access-to-justice/) - In a detailed investigative report, Daniele Idini argues that the Financial Ombudsman is being undermined by a subtle process of regulatory capture.
- [Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/olga-tokarczuks-the-books-of-jacob/) - Ben Pantrey mines nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s genre straddling novel The Books of Jacob set in 18th century Poland for insights into our present time.
- [Russia-Ukraine: Everything to Lose](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/russia-ukraine-everything-to-lose/) - Chay Bowes explores the origins of the looming conflict in Ukraine and sets out the global consequences if war is not averted.
- [Walking at Night](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/walking-at-night/) - In the wake of the killing of Ashling Murphy, Ciara Sidine writes that all men have a role in changing a culture marked by gender-based violence.
- [Musician of the Month: Hugo Vasco Reis](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-hugo-vasco-reis/) - After playing Fado and heavy metal Hugo Vasco Reis moved into composition. His new album draws on landscape and poetry of Antero de Quental and Fernando Pessoa.
- [Confronting ‘the Russia in Ourselves’](https://cassandravoices.com/history/confronting-the-russia-in-ourselves/)
- [The Fight for Water in a Thirsty World](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/the-fight-for-water-in-a-thirsty-world/) - About 2 billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress, while another 4 billion experience severe water scarcity for at least a month each year
- [The Perpetual Villa](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-perpetual-villa/) - Sarah Johnson's fiction involves a dual epiphany, recognising the appeal of both escaping the vacuum and the overpowering seduction of "the place without time."
- [Poetry: Kevin Higgins 'Safe to Say'](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-safe-to-say/) - "I’m absolutely in favour of the nice policeman now, / one hundred percent against the tear gas and dogs / you forced him to use on you back then."
- [Getting Away](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/getting-away/) - "Getting home was going to be impossible, though they both had a history of reckless driving..." 'Getting Away' is new fiction by Maggie Armstrong.
- [The Good Terrorist](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/the-good-terrorist/) - Amidst ongoing castigation of Sinn Féin in the South over the Northern Troubles, Frank Armstrong asks: at what point does the past become another country?
- [Lessons from the Great Depression (II)](https://cassandravoices.com/history/lessons-from-the-great-depression-ii/) - David Langwallner sees the experience of Weimar Germany echoing through the ages, as the extreme idea of compulsory vaccination and segregation takes hold there
- [Jack B. Yeats: Painting and Memory](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/jack-b-yeats-painting-and-memory/) - Ben Pantrey discusses the elusive quality of memory in the Jack B. Yeats exhibition running in the National Gallery of Ireland with co-curator Donal Maguire.
- [Review: Richard Kearney's Touch](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/review-richard-kearneys-touch/) - Ben Pantrey reckons Richard Kearney's new book Touch has its finger on the pulse of a real undercurrent of dissatisfaction but finds its analysis unsatisfactory
- [Interview: Father Peter McVerry](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/interview-father-peter-mcverry/) - Seasoned campaigner Father McVerry slams the conservative politics that lie behind Ireland's housing crisis and identifies specific ways of addressing the issue
- [“Nuances”: Fellipe Lopes in Conversation](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/nuances-fellipe-lopes-in-conversation/) - Nominated for the Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards, Fellipe Lopes seeks support for a film explaing that the refugee crisis really represents a policy crisis
- [Ciarán O'Rourke: Breaking the Cycle](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/ciaran-orourke-breaking-the-cycle/) - Ben Pantrey makes an admission of bias in his review of his former tutor Ciarán O'Rourke's collection of essays, written under the shadow of the pandemic.
- [Support Cassandra Voices](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/support-cassandra-voices/) - Cassandra Voices is a home for independent voices to inspire new thinking. We have developed three new tiers for supporters on our Patreon site.
- [A Fairy Tale of Dún Laoghaire 2](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/a-fairy-tale-of-dun-laoghaire-2/) - Billy O Hanluain recalls a childhood dream featuring Santy and seven other dwarfs he'd heard of before; the ones who lived with Snow White.
- [Hooray for Jolly January!](https://cassandravoices.com/society/hooray-for-jolly-january/) - Stephen Court admits fake revelry and incessant clamour to consume at Christmas fills him with dread. He craves the light at the end of the tunnel in January.
- [Notes from a Segregated Island](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/notes-from-a-segregated-island/) - Ciara Considine argues that the checks and balances necessary to healthy democratic governance are being dangerously side-lined during an emergency-without-end.
- ["We have Sick Journalism in Ireland"](https://cassandravoices.com/society/we-have-sick-journalism-in-ireland/) - A newly released film by Bob Quinn features Joe MacAnthony on how his high profile investigative journalism was shut down, and the sorry state of Irish media.
- [Three Dystopian Poems](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/three-dystopian-poems/) - "A preacher of health peeps in through every window. “We can all be safe,” his parrot parlours." New poetry from SurVision poetry editor Anatoly Kudryavitsky.
- [One Irish Son's Journey](https://cassandravoices.com/society/one-irish-sons-journey/) - Successive migrations culminate in a return to the home ground of Sligo, where memories mingle with national conversations amidst a preternatural tristesse.
- [Musician of the Month: Claudia Schwab](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-claudia-schwab/) - Musician of the Month Claudia Schwab reveals a story of recovering her musical health, which brought her on a holistic path to overcome chronic pain.
- [Death by Drowning](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/death-by-drowning/) - A new poem by Kevin Higgins is occasioned by the death by drowning of twenty seven migrants in the English Channel on November 24th, the highest death toll yet.
- [Vaccine Passports "Inherently Illiberal"](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/vaccine-passports-inherently-illiberal/) - Dr Eoghan Deasy sees no rational basis for vaccine passports, arguing stigmatising unvaccinated deflects from a failing health system and perpetuates distrust.
- [Lessons From the Great Depression (I)](https://cassandravoices.com/history/lessons-from-the-great-depression-i/) - David Langwaller explores the cultural inheritance of the Great Depression, beginning in America, and compares that situation to our own hard times.
- [Is Medicine Out of Touch?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/is-medicine-out-of-touch/) - Richard Kearney's Touch asserts the importance of physical contant in healing. Crippling anxiety in the wake of COVID-19 indicates a need for medicine to reform
- [Sunnyvale: Eviction on Prussia Street](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sunnyvale-eviction-on-prussia-street/) - In words and exquisite illustrations Gareth Curtis conveys the scene of the dramatic eviction on 'Sunnyvale', 23 Prussia Street last month.
- [The Empty Unconscious](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-empty-unconscious/) - Jason Hirthler slams Jim Rennert's Think Big stargazer on Union Square for not challenging the status quo, arguing art should undermine, challenge and unsettle.
- [Poetry: Ciarán O'Rourke](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-ciaran-orourke/) - his canny, quiet eyes / a-gleam, two tiny pools / of blue and black, / pricked / by the light of the world. Poetry inspired by Frans Hal's The Laughing Cavalier
- [Chay Bowes: HSE Perpetuating Dysfunction](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/chay-bowes-hse-perpetuates-dysfunction/) - Reflecting on his long experience, whisteblower Chay Bowes concludes the Irish health system perpetuates dysfunction to the benefit of a private system.
- [The Most Natural Thing in the World III](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world-iii/) - In this the third episode exploring his anti-natalism, Des Traynor reveals that this may have become a different story altogether.
- [Poetry: Peter O'Neill](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-peter-oneill/) - The elemental walk of the Vitruvians, / Divinely proportioned, / Aqueous folds cocooned in the lithe / Expansive limbs of the morning. Poetry from Peter O'Neill
- [The Grandfather Clause](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-grandfather-clause/) - Suppose legends of immigration to Ireland from Africa are not mythical? Bob Quinn wonders whether the grandfather clause might be used by immigrants today.
- [Gull](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/gull/) - "The herd, glistening, serves as a bovine footnote of nature’s essayistic form." In Gull, a young man's contemplation of nature intersects with the modern world
- [Featured Artist: Ella de Burca](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-ella-de-burca/) - A magician, a factor or one of the intelligentsia? Feature Artist Ella de Burca has found herself inhabiting a variety of artistic personas over the years.
- [History's Dead Hand on the Middle East](https://cassandravoices.com/history/historys-dead-hand-on-the-middle-east/)
- [Bringing Music Back to Dublin](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/bringing-music-back-to-dublin/) - Promoter, venue and band manager, Conal Lee weighs up musicians' experience of lockdown and considers what the future holds for live music in Dublin.
- [Is General Practice a Victim of Pandemic?](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/is-general-practice-a-victim-of-pandemic/) - Dr Billy Ralph contrasts his work in NHS integrated services with privatised Irish GP care & argues the government bought compliance of GPs during the pandemic.
- [Leo-Liberal](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/leo-liberal/) - A recent complimentary biography of Leo Varadkar by Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor nonetheless carries damaging revelations.
- [The Most Natural Thing in the World II](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world-ii/) - Having mined his upbringing for clues, Des Traynor draws on the literary canon and the Irish Constitution for insights into his attitude to having children.
- [In the Blink of an Eye](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/in-the-blink-of-an-eye/) - Susan Lindsey argues that the "jagged lines" of inconveniences and contradictions in rules for living with Covid may be giving rise to new opportunities.
- [Musician of the Month: Marie Awadis](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-marie-awadis/) - As a member of the Armenian diaspora, composer Marie Awadis never had a sense of home, until she achieved a homecoming out of dark places in her creativity.
- [Poetry: Carmen Palomino](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-carmen-palomino/) - "As I walk through Irish fields / where Spring shines / I wonder about Life / Is this all an illusion" New poetry from Carmen Palomino is inspired by Tarot.
- [My Social Media Shame](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/my-social-media-shame/) - Maggie Armstrong's life has been one chatroom disappearance after another, though the chatrooms have the more benign shape of ‘social media’...
- [The Shadow of Italian Justice](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/the-shadow-of-italian-justice/)
- [The Black Hand Cafe](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-black-hand-cafe/) - Underlying Mark Venner's ongoing project is to take a personal history with a strong sense of place and to overlay this with pop cultural references.
- [The Most Natural Thing in the World (I)](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world-i/) - In the first of a series on his attitude to having children Des Traynor explores his upbringing and argues that being anti-natalist is not to be unnatural.
- [Halloween](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/halloween/) - "…´tis the season…for pissing on graves…smashing headstones…for general desecration…I bare my teeth…a quiet snarl in the darkness…I can barely hear the rain…"
- [Irish Media’s Business Model Brings Climate Inaction](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/irish-medias-business-model-brings-climate-inaction/)
- [Anger at Hillary Clinton's Appointment at Queen's University in Belfast](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/anger-at-hillary-clintons-appointment-at-queens-university-in-belfast/) - Considering her controversial role in recent history, Fra Hughes questions Hillary Clinton's suitability as Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast.
- [Is This Where We Are Heading?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/is-this-where-we-are-heading/) - Liam Deegan worries that the extreme discrimination against unvaccinated witnessed in Lithuania is a foretaste for what is to come elsewhere.
- [Icarius's Daughter](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/icariuss-daughter/) - That Odysseus has a home, an estate, and a kingdom to return to is thanks to his wife Penelope. Philip McDonagh's new poem celebrates Icarius's daughter.
- [Poetry: Haley Hodges](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-haley-hodges-2/) - "and fiercer still/ in the silence that is the only true answer,/ and the rain falls steady with my unsteady/ thoughts" from The Sacred Mundane by Haley Hodges.
- [The Zenith of Pessoa](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/the-zenith-of-pessoa/) - Richard Zenith's new biography of Fernando Pessoa brings to life a Portuguese poet whose extraordinary capacity for invention still offers an essential message.
- [Baudelaire as Phenomenologist](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/baudelaire-as-phenomenologist/) - Happy is he who with a vigorous wing can / Fly upward to the luminous and serene fields Peter O'Neill presents three more poems of Charles Baudelaire.
- [Poetry: Nicholas Battey](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-nicholas-battey/) - 'Leaf Ladder' is a new poem by Nicholas Battey, a part-time gardner with The National Trust and previously Professor of Plant Development at Reading University.
- [Musician of the Month: Justina Jaruševičiūtė](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-justina-jaruseviciute/) - As a child learning music, Lithuanian composer Justina Jaruševičiūtė knew she did not want to perform music, but always felt a strong impulse to create it.
- [Towards the Brink of the Cataract](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/towards-the-brink-of-the-cataract/) - Facing the end of his ninth decade, Bob Quinn is having nightmares in cinematic clichés, and ruminating on the ingredients in the Irish cultural stew.
- [Addressing the Viewer](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/addressing-the-viewer/) - Following the Futurists, who wanted to break the compliance of passive consumption, Ella de Burca asserts a necessary role for Art to challenge and provoke.
- [A Solution to the Housing Crisis](https://cassandravoices.com/society/a-solution-to-the-housing-crisis/) - Banker Ben Hoey identifies a solution to the housing crisis to level the playing field between institutions and individuals paying over the odds on mortgages.
- [David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/david-foster-wallaces-infinite-jest/) - Looking for a novel with shtick Neil Burns found Infinite Jest plugging into David Foster Wallace’s acicular vein for a supercilious commentary on US society.
- [Watering Down the Vodka](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/watering-down-the-vodka/) - Tom Galvin attempts to explain how it can be that with the same data people have reached such starkly differing conclusions in response to the pandemic.
- [The Significance of Religion in the World](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-significance-of-religion-in-the-world/) - Frank Armstrong considers the significance of religion in the world, and the important contributions these traditions can make at what is a point of inflection.
- ['Healthy People Do Not Require Genetic Vaccination'](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/healthy-people-do-not-require-genetic-vaccination/) - Dr Marcus de Brun argues against administering genetic vaccines to healthy people, and warns of unintended consequences of wider application of this technology.
- [Where is Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World?](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/where-is-sally-rooneys-beautiful-world/) - Cajoled into reviewing Sally Rooney's Beautiful World Where Are You, Ben Pantrey discovers how Rooney has reached the top of the millenial novelist hierarchy.
- [Plagues of Prejudice](https://cassandravoices.com/history/plagues-of-prejudice/) - Duncan Mclean of Médecins Sans Frontières charts scapegoating that has occurred throughout the history of plagues from Jews in the Black Death to 'Typhoid' Mary
- [Love and Literature in Numbers](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/love-and-literature-in-numbers/) - Peter O'Neill draws on personal experiences of love, loss and power as he considers the significance of Giambattista Vico in the work of Beckett and Joyce.
- [Socio-Economic Rights Must Be Vindicated](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/socio-economic-rights-must-be-vindicated/) - As livelihoods decline in the wake of the pandemic, David Langwallner argues that courts must now vindicate a right to housing and other basic requirements.
- [Housing: A Banker Speaks Out](https://cassandravoices.com/history/housing-a-banker-speaks-out/) - "The Vultures know exactly what they want. But we don’t. So we end up being picked off." Banker Ben Hoey explains what is causing Ireland's Housing Crisis.
- [The Key Change to Fix the Irish Constitution](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/the-key-change-to-fix-the-irish-constitution/)
- [Musician of the Month: Alain Servant](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-alain-servant/) - After 15 years in French theatre, Alain Servant moved to Ireland with his Indian sarod and Turkish oud where he found in songwriting a way of merging practices.
- [Poem: Questioning A Tank](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-questioning-a-tank/) - On October 3 2015 a US Air Force gunship attacked the Kunduz Trauma Centre operated by Médecins Sans Frontières killing at least 42 people and injuring 30 more.
- [Housing: Enshrining the Gambler](https://cassandravoices.com/society/housing-enshrining-the-gambler/) - Frank Armstrong explores the historical origins of capitalism, as the steady financialisation of property threatens the good life we have a right to expect.
- [Poetry: Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-8/) - "The well made poem believes / nuclear weapons are necessary / to keep poems like it safe." Kevin Higgins offers further incendiary verse.
- [Cuban Love Songs Launch](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/cuban-love-songs-launch/) - In his introductory speech, Philip McDonagh described Ronan Sheehan's Cuban Love Songs as a ‘significant moment for the Irish province of the Republic Letters.’
- [What Next for Aghanistan?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/what-next-for-aghanistan/) - Fra Hughes explores the origins of U.S. interference in Afghanistan, and argues that there are reasons to believe this will continue.
- [Magick or Rationale?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/magick-or-rationale/) - In the face of crippling debt that prompts anxiety and impinges on one's ability to live a fulfilling life, Maurizio Bisogno argues for magick over rationality.
- [Poetry: Peter Challis](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-peter-challis/) - He said he was one / of those told he had failed at eleven – / a ball that didn’t bounce. New Poetry mines English origins and foreign escapades for inspiration
- [A Net Depends On Its Knots](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/a-net-depends-on-its-knots/) - Against a backdrop of Chartist agitation in Yorkshire the tragic end of a forbidden love gives way to the possibility of another. Fiction by Susan Millar DuMars
- [Ireland: The Lipsticked Pig](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/ireland-the-lipsticked-pig/) - Trudy Hayes reviews John Buckley McQuaid’s album of original songs about Ireland: This is Where I Keep My Dreams’ which was ignored by the Irish media.
- [Featured Artist: Turlough Rynne](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-turlough-rynne/) - Featured artist Turlough Rynne argues that in drawing, there is no right or wrong approach, and that experimentation plays a crucial role in the process.
- [Nightmaring America: A Love Story](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/nightmaring-america-a-love-story/) - When Lana Del Rey looks in the mirror, we see all of America in vivid close-up. Ciarán O’Rourke explores the music and lyrics of this complex artist.
- [Reviving Martin Heidegger’s Dasein – Be-ing](https://cassandravoices.com/history/reviving-martin-heideggers-dasein-be-ing/) - Given the current threat of extinction as a species, Peter O'Neill argues for exploration of Heidegger's vital philosophy beyond a reprehensible Nazi dalliance.
- [Iguatu](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/iguatu/) - 'the forests were monstrous / but they have always been divine' We bring you a new song from Bartholomew Ryan to mark Earth Day 2020.
- [Forest](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/forest/)
- [Twosome Twiminds in Casement and Joyce](https://cassandravoices.com/history/twosome_twiminds_in_casement_and_joyce/)
- [Leopold Bloom and the Art of Loafing](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/leopold-bloom-and-the-art-of-loafing/)
- [Musician of the Month – Bartholomew Ryan of The Loafing Heroes](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/musician-of-the-month-bartholomew-ryan-of-the-loafing-heroes/)
- [Musician of the Month: Éamonn Cagney](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-eamonn-cagney/) - Eamonn Cagney sees vision as more important than even craft to music. For him this comes especially from the enchanting landscape of Donegal where he grew up.
- [Poetry: Stefano Schiavocampo](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-stefano-schiavocampo/) - the waves slow to an interlude / extended by awe, by the vision / of today's displaying. New poetry from Stefano Shiavocampo.
- [Shakespeare's Wisdom in Troubled Times](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/shakespeares-wisdom-in-troubled-times/) - David Langwallner draws on Shakespeare's wisdom to contend with the evil in our times of extremism, fundamentalism, consumerism, and negation of the rule of law
- [Roll Model: Dervla Murphy](https://cassandravoices.com/society/roll-model-dervla-murphy/) - Travel writer Dervla Murphy rolled her way into history and changed Ireland forever, writes Lucille Redmond.
- [The Dogs and Deer with Fionn mac Cumhaill](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-dog-and-deer-with-fionn-mac-cumhaill/) - An intimate relationship between dogs and deer and legendary figures such as Fionn mac Cumhaill was a feature of the Irish Dreamtime writes Lucille Redmond.
- [Poetry: Marc Di Saverio](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-marc-di-saverio-2/) - Take flight with five new poems from Marc di Saverio that encounter elemental landscapes and profound experiences.
- [Irish Housing: Historic Roots of a Crisis](https://cassandravoices.com/history/irish-housing-historic-roots-of-a-crisis/) - The land question has haunted Irish politics since time immemorial. Frank Armstrong attributes the current acute housing crisis to the colonial settlement.
- [Review: Strumpet City](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/review-strumpet-city/) - Neil Burns rates James Plunkett's 1969 novel Strumpet City depicting the 1913 Lockout as a masterpiece that explores the scene in the manner of a Russian novel.
- [Death](https://cassandravoices.com/society/death/) - Recalling the fate of a number of family members, Bob Quinn contemplates death, concluding: 'We are immortal. We just leave our egos behind. And good riddance.'
- [Fiction: Train Station](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-train-station/) - In new fiction from Peter O'Neill the character of White attributes the sheer gombeenism evident in his small Irish town to a post-colonial heritage.
- [Poetry: Christoph Hargreaves-Allen](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-christoph-hargreaves-allen/) - 'I raise hell like Kane. I belong to no name. While you convert, all I do is subvert. I win every time 'cos I don't spend a dime' More vital poetry for our age
- [Interview: Belfast on the Twelfth](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/interview-belfast-on-the-twelfth/) - Daniele Idini catches up with photographer Graham Martin to discuss his trip to Belfast, as Loyalist celebration of the Twelfth pass off without major incidents
- [Corporate Social Responsibility](https://cassandravoices.com/history/corporate-social-responsibility/) - Although many companies have paid lip service to corporate social responsiblity, there are more encouraging signs of meaningful actions in recent times.
- [Greece: Refugee Pushback Award Withdrawn](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/greece-refugee-pushback-award-withdrawn/) - A Greek activist was invited to receive an award for his role in saving refugees, but he received a late phone call one night saying it had been withdrawn.
- [Literature: Ireland’s Last Minotaur](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature-irelands-last-minotaur/) - Neil Burns rails against middle class mentalities dominating Irish Arts, arguing publication and fame is based on who you know not the merit of your work.
- [Killing Kelly?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/killing-kelly/) - The death of UK weapons inspector David Kelly in 2003 remains shrouded in mystery. A new documentary argues, on the balance of probability, that he was murdered
- [Peter Dooley: An Independent Candidate for Political Homeless](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/peter-dooley-an-independent-candidate-for-political-homeless/) - Dublin Bay South candidate Peter Dooley has an impressive record fighting for renters, and also draws attention to the devastation of Europe’s longest lockdown.
- [The Daymaker](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-daymaker/) - "In the name of any and all oppressed psychotics, the Psychiatric System will be dismantled and rebuilt." New fiction from Nobel nominee Marc di Saverio.
- [A Grá for the Language](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/a-gra-for-the-language/) - On a wild retreat in the Burren Fiona Hanley digs for words, and finds embodied in the Irish language a playful meaning the educational system failed to convey.
- [Fleeing Father](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/fleeing-father/) - Descriptions of life in Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Romania from Francesca Banciu's novel Flight remind Peter O'Neill of how things were in 1980s Catholic Ireland.
- [Poetry: Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-7/) - "smiling up out of my man-bag,/a two day dead pike/ that looks like it died/ of a personality disorder" Kevin Higgins finds inspiration in Holly McNish's poetry
- [Czech Intellectuals: Kafka and Kundera](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/czech-intellectuals-kafka-and-kundera/) - Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera both demonstrate why we should never unconditionally comply with the edicts of authority according to barrister David Langwallner.
- [Poetry: Quincy Lehr](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-quincy-lehr/) - Quincy Lehr's new work draws on Francis Fukayama's dreary vision of an end to history, below which the poet considers the background of his GEN X adversaries.
- [Swing into Summer Sunday Jazz Gala](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/swing-into-summer-sunday-jazz-gala/) - When one of the Irish jazz’s most celebrated musicians Phil Ware recently suffered a debilitating illness the jazz community set up a gala fundraising concert.
- [Pandemic Considerations](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/pandemic-considerations/) - Dr Eoghan Deasy argues that ongoing and future mandated restrictions, including vaccine passports, are likely to be more harmful than beneficial to society.
- [Peter O'Neill's Henry Street Arcade](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/peter-oneills-henry-street-arcade/) - Peter O'Neill's poetry collection Henry Street Arcade addresses the character of the flaneur to the backdrop of Dublin’s streets and architectural mismatches.
- [Could Ivermectin End the Pandemic?](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/could-ivermectin-end-the-pandemic/) - Dr Billy Ralph condemns guidelines advising against use of ivermectin, a safe and off patent drug, for COVID-19 despite numerous studies demonstrating efficacy.
- [Does Ireland still have a Problem with Whistleblowing?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/does-ireland-still-have-a-problem-with-whistleblowing/) - Daniele Idini explores continued challenges for Irish whistleblowers and interviews human rights lawyer David Langwallner now working on a private members bill.
- [Automated Spirits](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/automated-spirits/) - "The townspeople have wearied of their presence. The protestors are a negative image now like an open wasteground" Transgressive new fiction from Andrew McEneff
- [Covid-19: The View from Turkey](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/covid-19-the-view-from-turkey/) - Büşra Türkmen provides a synopsis of Turkey's experience of Covid-19. After considerable disruption to their lives people are desperate to get back to normal.
- [Northern Ireland: Poots Booted Out](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/northern-ireland-poots-booted-out/) - Fra Hughes examines the machinations behind the rise and fall of Edwin Poots, who lasted as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party for just twenty-one days.
- [Featured Artist Marc di Saverio](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-marc-di-saverio/) - Nobel literature nominee Marc di Saverio's visual art work was inspired by William Blake, and also draws on religious symbols set in historic European settings.
- [Covid-19: Unanswered Questions](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/covid-19-unanswered-questions/) - Dr Billy Ralph asks for answers to questions around the origin of the pandemic, and bemoans the Irish medical community's failure to conduct reasonable debate.
- [The Literary ‘Outsider’ Novel](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-literary-outsider-novel/) - Neil Burns inquires whether serious, attentive reading means anything anymore in an era of Mediocrity Inc., and hails the significance of the Outsider Novel.
- [Restoring Wild Literature](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/restoring-wild-literature/) - Declining biodiversity is reflected in a loss of wildness in our literature, which is really a sign of a wider cultural decline argues Peter O'Neill.
- [Our Barmy Bread](https://cassandravoices.com/society/our-barmy-bread/) - Frank Armstrong explores the historical evolution of bread-making, arguing that although much of it consumed today is unhealthy, it remains the 'staff of life'.
- [Musician of the Month: Ciara Sidine](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-ciara-sidine/) - Independent singer-songwriter Ciara Sidine discusses the female voices through the centuries that inspire her latest project: 'Blood Sex Death'.
- [Poetry: Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-6/) - Kevin Higgins reveals a penchant for derring-do, including how once, under the influence of Coleridge, he once took one more Paracetamol than he should have.
- [Beautiful Things](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/beautiful-things/) - "It's excruciating and I'm beginning to think that a nice glass of something would be nice. But, it's not even noon." New fiction from Yona Shiryan Caffrey.
- [Flann O'Brien Labs Assess the €9 Lunch](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/flann-obrien-labs-assess-the-e9-lunch/) - Billy O Hanluain reports on the Flann O'Brien Laboratoy's investigation into the safety of the €9 lunch, and ongoing trials on jazz, techno and Classical music.
- [Post-Pandemic Marketing Strategies](https://cassandravoices.com/history/post-pandemic-marketing-strategies/) - Transcending ‘Like. Comment. Subscribe’! With old certainties shredded in the wake of the pandemic, firms should remain nimble with their new market strategies.
- [Covid-19: A New Irish Social Contract?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/covid-19-a-new-irish-social-contract/) - Frank Armstrong measures the health of the Irish republic in response to the pandemic, and argues for a social contract inclusive towards all who live here.
- [Palestine: What happens when the violence ends?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/palestine-what-happens-when-the-violence-ends/) - Despite tremendous destruction and loss of life, Fra Hughes argues the spirit of Palestinian resistance to Israeli Occupation is still strong and necessary.
- [Thrills & Difficulties: A Marxist Poet in Ireland](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/thrills-difficulties-a-marxist-poet-in-ireland/) - Kevin Higgins recalls his ideological formation living in the UK under Thatcher before returning to Galway to meet the elitist 'best room' of Irish poetry.
- [Ireland and Colombia: the Coal Connection](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/ireland-and-colombia-the-coal-connection/) - Despite environmental destruction and human rights violations Ireland continues to import coal from Colombia, mined by Cerrejón, a company based in Ireland.
- [The Mythology of Blood](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-mythology-of-blood/) - "Hell is the perversion of human nature through the unfettered feeding of the darkest of human propensities." Lorcan Mac Mathuna expands further on new his work
- [Al-Quds: the Red Line](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/al-quds-the-red-line/) - Fra Huges traces the origins of the conflagration we are currently witnessing in Gaza, and calls on the international community to confront Zionist aggression.
- [Occupied Territories Bill: Government Defies Dáil Majority Leaving the Jaber Family to their Fate](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/occupied-territories-bill-government-defies-dail-majority-leaving-the-jaber-family-to-their-fate/) - Previously the Dail and Seanad passed the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, but despite a resounding majority Fine Gael blocked it.
- [Palestine – To Exist is to Resist](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/palestine-to-exist-is-to-resist/) - Having returned from the West Bank Gerry O'Sullivan describes a scene where nearly sixty Palestinians have been extra-judicially executed by the IDF since 2015.
- [Poetry: Billy O Hanluain](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-billy-o-hanluain/) - As Ireland slowly unlocks, Billy O Hanluain finds "The brittle bowl that / held my world has been / drained of chance and / flooded with numbers."
- [‘Wild Law’ is the Path of Natural Justice](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/wild-law-is-the-path-of-natural-justice/)
- [Covid-19: A Deadly Deception](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/covid-19-a-deadly-deception/) - WHO guidance on recording deaths from Covid-19 fundamentally altered the international standard, thus deceiving the public as to the true scale of the pandemic.
- [Musician of the Month: Donal Gunne](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-donal-gunne/) - Entering a space of ‘nothing to do, nowhere to be’ is the first challenge for Donal Gunne carving out time to make use of the fruits is the next.
- [Belfast’s Broken Record Crackles On](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/belfasts-broken-record-crackles-on/) - There is a strong impression of the same old story of the Troubles in Belfast, all over again. The new element is the pandemic affecting teenage lives.
- [The Communist's Daughter](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-communists-daughter/) - The Communist's Daughter by Niall Kerrigan is fiction based on an Irish immigrant's experience in Toronto informed by addiction, romance and Instagram.
- [The Other Great Troubadour](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-other-great-troubadour/) - On an artistic journey through music and poetry Leonard Cohen combined spirituality and carnality. His passing leaves Bob Dylan as the surviving titan of song.
- [Head Shop](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/head-shop/) - How about a Kittser? Half an hour or so after takin’ the first half ye’ll feel a warm acoustic vibe comin’ over ye. Head Shop is new fiction by Billy O Hanluain
- [Poetry: Chay Bowes](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-chay-bowes/) - Poem by Chay Bowes "A Holocaust reflected in the silent slate grey sky, / The amputation of all kindness screamed / In a lone mother’s last breathless farewell"
- [Containing Strife - Professional Ideals in Law and Mediation](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/containing-strife-professional-ideals-in-law-and-mediation/)
- [Featured Artist Annelie Carlström](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-annelie-carlstrom/) - Inspired by an artistic grandfather unable to fulfill his dream, Annelie Carlström began with a sensible approach, but now enjoys more time for self-expression.
- [Old Headscarf](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/old-headscarf/) - Doaa Baker’s decision to stop wearing a face mask – for which she has a medical certificate – recalls her experience of choosing to stop wearing the hijab.
- [L’Homme et ... la Merde!](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/lhomme-et-la-merde/) - Inspired by Baudelaire, Peter O'Neill fumes about "The shitty structures which we maintain and perpetuate. / Up to our necks in it." in a climate changed world.
- [Crappy Sleeper](https://cassandravoices.com/society/crappy-sleeper/) - It's the Mission District, San Fransisco and Brian O'Dowd is on his greatest of all walks of shame having hardly walked any other way. Contains strong language.
- [La Petite Mort](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/la-petite-mort/) - "This experience of tantric love bombing startled both doctor and patient." Fiction involving a psychiatrist and a patient who acquires vocabulary to impress.
- [Mandatory Hotel Quarantine Alienates Immigrant Communities](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/mandatory-hotel-quarantine-alienates-immigrant-communities/) - Mandatory Hotel Quarantine sends out a clear message to immigrant communities about their importance to the Irish political and media establishment.
- [Winter When Thy Face is Hid](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/winter-when-thy-face-is-hid/) - A woman awakens in the dead of night to a draught of cold air from the Bruegel painting on her wall and reaches out for explanation from an old art teacher.
- [Poetry: Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-5/) - A new poem from Kevin Higgins inveighs against a liberal elite's use of identity politics for nefarious ends, and the politicisation of vaccine procurement.
- [COVID-19: Virtual Work a Bridge Too Far?](https://cassandravoices.com/history/covid-19-virtual-work-a-bridge-too-far/) - The pandemic has blurred the distinction between office and home. Research indicates surprising advantages, but also huge drawbacks that leaders should address.
- [A Hurler's Silver Branch Perception](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/a-hurlers-silver-branch-perception/) - Diarmuid Lyng says we need a medicine man to dive into the depths of the Irish psyche and comb out our Cartesianism, to comb out our sins against Nature.
- [Poetry - Elliot Moriarty](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-elliot-moriarty/) - But we’ll outsource to Europa / when the talent pool is Exhausted.. Elliot Moriarty's new poem Nicholas of Bari explores the cracked hinterlands of Dublin life.
- [Unenumerated Constitutional Rights Erode Irish Democracy](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/unenumerated-constitutional-rights-erode-irish-democracy/) - Michael Williams argues the arrival of judge-made law through an interpretation of enumerated rights under the Irish Constitution has eroded Irish democracy.
- [Rule of Law Backsliding in Rogue EU States](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/rule-of-law-backsliding-in-rogue-eu-states/) - Professor Laurent Pech identifies the three stage process by which rogue EU states are undermining the Rule of Law and threatening democracy across Europe.
- [Musician of the Month: Ellie O'Neill](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-ellie-oneill/) - Musician of the Month Ellie O'Neill found new pathways through the distraction and despair that were surrounding her drive to write during the pandemic.
- [Covid-19: A Simple Moral Calculus](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/covid-19-a-simple-moral-calculus/) - Frank Armstrong surveys the epidemiology and reaction to Covid-19, arguing Big Data and The Guardian have undermined public understanding.
- [Lent](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/lent/) - "There as much chance of that, as climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, in a pair a high heels" Nick Feery recalls the last time he gave up the porter for Lent.
- [Featured Artist Michal Greenboim](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-michal-greenboim/) - Michal Greenboim's photography was shaped by childhood memories of a home established by a grandfather who arrived in Israel in 1933 from Germany.Arts
- [A Few Good Men and Women](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/a-few-good-men-and-women/) - Eamon Kelly worries that ideas of social equality are fast becoming reduced to a gender-specific proposition under a dominant neoliberal paradigm.
- [Policing Must Return to First Principles](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/policing-must-return-to-first-principles/) - Peter Keating argues that by embracing identity politics at the behest of political masters An Garda Siochana is losing its moral authority.
- [The Terrible Truth about Sarah Everard](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/the-terrible-truth-about-sarah-everard/) - Rosita Sweetman lays the blame for the murder of Sarah Everard, and a rise in other forms of violence against women, on a global pornography worth $97 billion.
- [Toblerone](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/toblerone/) - Doubts and desires are to the fore on a family holiday at an unglamorous adventure centre in the Irish midlands. 'Toblerone' is new fiction by Gary Grace.
- [Poetry: Marc Di Saverio](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-marc-di-saverio/) - "Like Martin Luther King she had a dream, / but lived out what the TV would prescribe." Marc Di Saverio's poetry shows a devotion to the sonnet, in particular.
- [‘It's not a case of men vs women’: Mise Fosta in Irish Trad](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/its-not-a-case-of-men-vs-women-mise-fosta-in-irish-trad/) - Once seen as "a bit of craic" Mise Fosta (Me Too) highlighted enduring harassment in Irish Trad. Louise O'Connor challenges enduring prejudices and stereotypes.
- [Ownership by Navlika Ramjee](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/ownership-by-navlika-ramjee/) - And the silence is your own / Though melodies will reply / To the stillness that you own
- [Back in the DDR](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/back-in-the-ddr/) - "It’s like living in East Germany / Nowhere let open at night / Incarcerated by mediocrity" Stephen Court dusts off the lyrics for his Eurovision entry.
- [The Classical World in Video Games](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/the-classical-world-in-video-games/) - Andrea Reynell explores the latest video game releases that draw on Classical myth and history, and discusses this medium's educational use.
- [Poem: Note From The Organisers](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-note-from-the-organisers/) - Poetry from Kevin Higgins. 'The Committee permits / no placards or literature / of a factional variety.'
- [Musician of the Month: Judith Retzlik](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-judith-retzlik/) - Musician of the Month Judith Retzlik battles against simple categorisation in her life and art, and finds musical magic in moments of convergence.
- [Anti-Lockdown Demo in Dublin](https://cassandravoices.com/society/anti-lockdown-demo-in-dublin/) - Photographer Daniele Idini captures the scene at the anti-lockdown demonstration in Dublin yesterday, Saturday, February 27th, 2021.
- [Featured Artist: Imelda O’Reilly](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-imelda-oreilly/) - Featured artist Imelda O'Reilly's new film Tumbling Towards Home explores the liminality of cultural boundaries and the post-colonial condition.
- [The Hero's Journey](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/the-heros-journey/) - Lorcan Mac Mathuna's An Bhuatais & The Meaning of Life draws on the exquisite portrayal of drama and character archetype in ancient Irish mythology.
- [Cassandra Voices Music Podcast II](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/cassandra-voices-music-podcast-ii/) - This second Cassandra Voices musical podcast is dedicated to the memory of Ennio Morricone as Nicola Bigatti continues a journey through Italian Library Music.
- [Is there a Doctor in the House?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house/) - Peter Keating takes the temperature the Irish Body Politic and finds a patient that is seriously unwell.
- [Kafka’s Café](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/kafkas-cafe/) - After mooching around town Lev finds a hostelry with a dizzying array of rules. Kafka’s Café is new fiction set in Dublin by Neil Burns evocative of our times.
- [ZeroCovid’s Neoconservative Traits](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/zerocovids-neoconservative-traits/) - ZeroCovid Ireland's zero-tolerance to the virus shares characteristics with the War on Terror, but the enemy is within and the war unwinnable.
- [Chambí’s World: Martín Chambi (1891-1973)](https://cassandravoices.com/history/chambis-world-martin-chambi-1891-1973/) - Before Ireland’s third lockdown Ciaran O'Rourke picked up a work by the indigenous Peruvian photographer, Martín Chambi which is now among his favourite books.
- [Covid-19 in Ireland: Landfall](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/covid-19-in-ireland-landfall/) - Dr Marcus de Brun argues that lockdowns may simply prolong the pandemic in Ireland without significantly reducing mortality and that Zero-Covid is Utopianism.
- [Wonder Woman: The Baudelairean Ideal](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/wonder-woman-the-baudelairean-ideal/) - Peter O'Neill argues that Charles Baudelaire as one of the few poets who can write about women and love in a truly remarkable way.
- [J. G. Ballard: Foreshadowing Collapse](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/j-g-ballard-foreshadowing-collapse/) - J.G. Ballard's novels anticipated the disintegration of the neoliberal order we are witnessing according to David Langwallner.
- [Chef Death](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/chef-death/) - “It’s Levy’s bread, not Levi’s jeans!” On his death bed, a father expects high standards from a chef-daughter, who is happy to oblige.
- [Fiction: Luigi’s Trip  ](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-luigis-trip/) - An anonymous author brings us inside Sydney's criminal underbelly as an insurance scam meets a hatchet-faced Irish dude.
- [Cross-Cultural Branding: ‘Glocalisation’](https://cassandravoices.com/history/cross-cultural-branding-glocalisation/) - A successful branding campaign in one country may fall flat on its face elsewhere. Global companies must learn to cater to specific local audiences.
- [Tales from a Fourth Industrial Revolution](https://cassandravoices.com/history/tales-from-a-fourth-industrial-revolution/) - Boidurjo Rick Mukhopadhyay examines the energy-poverty-climate nexus that developing countries contend with during a Fourth Industrial Revolution.
- [Musician of the Month: Justin McCann](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-justin-mccann/) - Musican of the Month Justin McCann considers writing about music to be like dancing about architecture, but he's seen architecture worth dancing about.
- [Cassandra Voices Third Anniversary!](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/cassandra-voices-third-anniversary/) - In February, 2018 we published the first edition of Cassandra Voices as monthly online edition. On this our third anniversary we recall its contents.
- [Fiction: An Oligarch’s Wife](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/fiction-an-oligarchs-wife/) - “We’ve got a gig,” said Jeffrey. “Good pay. But we don't know nothing about it.” A group of musicians embark on a mysterious assignment in opulent Monaco.
- [Featured Artist - Emily Mannion](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-emily-mannion/) - Drawing on a pre-verbal language of colour, and a tension between unmoored objects, Emily Mannion's art responds to our challenging times.
- [Dublin's Forty Foot over Fourteen Years](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/dublins-forty-foot-over-fourteen-years/) - Photographer Barry Delaney reveals what brings himself and fellow misfits to the cold water every day, with the Dryrobes crowd joining this year...
- [Funk](https://cassandravoices.com/society/funk/) - Been in a funk these past few weeks? Will Warren knows the feeling...
- [Mother and Baby Home ‘Whitewash’ Compounds Victims’ Torture](https://cassandravoices.com/society/mother-and-baby-home-whitewash-compounds-victims-torture/) - Rosita Sweetman provides new testimonies from survivors of Mother and Baby Homes, and calls for a criminal prosecution of the Catholic Church and full redress.
- [My Approach to Literary Networking](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/my-approach-to-literary-networking/) - Kevin Higgins acknowledges his fondness for 'the grunts of approval / from fully clothed minor male poets.'
- [Matt Talbot and the 'Theology of Incarceration'](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/matt-talbot-and-the-theology-of-incarceration/) - The example of Matt Talbot's piety was used by the Irish Catholic Church to inculcate subservience as the downtrodden were told to await their reward in heaven.
- [Ruins](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/ruins/) - Mac Tíre the Irish word for wolf translates as son of the country, but the sons may not feel at home in Ireland any longer as they walk through Glendalough.
- [Vaccination: A Matter of Trust, with Caveats](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/vaccination-a-matter-of-trust-with-caveats/) - A colonial legacy, distrust of a mercantilist pharmaceutical industry and the erosion of democracy jeopardise preserving population health through vaccination.
- [The Ballad of Sadie Bramwell](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-ballad-of-sadie-bramwell/) - Mark Venner evokes 1970s England, a time of Bronco toilet rolls and King Crimson albums, when Jack Russell terriers still snapped at the coal man's feet...
- [Love Denied: Baudelaire’s Une Charogne](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/love-denied-baudelaires-une-charogne/) - Peter O'Neill considers Une Charogne (A Carcass) by Charles Baudelaire to be among the greatest poems of the 19th Century and of particular importance for today
- [Meeting Ingmar Bergman](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/meeting-ingmar-bergman/) - David Langwallner recalls meeting the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and lauds the greatest humanist artist of cinematic history.
- [Kevin Higgins: The Happy Song of Us](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/kevin-higgins-the-happy-song-of-us/) - Kevin Higgins celebrates these happy times we are living through...
- [Musician of the Month: John Moods](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/john-moods/) - Through non-intellectual confrontation with death and suffering Musician of the Month John Moods grew more in touch with the finite beauty of life.
- [Poetry: Fisheye by Nicholas Battey](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-fisheye-by-nicholas-battey/) - New poetry from Nicholas Battey, who is a part-time gardner with The National Trust and previously Professor of Plant Development at the University of Reading.
- [The Mad King’s Final Stand](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/the-mad-kings-final-stand/) - Yesterday's scenes on Capitol Hill were the culmination of four years during which Trump made a mockery of his Office to the approval of his conservative allies
- [Unforgettable Year: December 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-december-2020/) - 2020 presented more challenges for some careers than others. Our review of the #unforgettableyear concludes.
- [Unforgettable Year: November 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-november-2020/) - November brought the demise of Trump but major global challenges remained. 2020 #unforgettableyear
- [Unforgettable Year: October 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-october-2020/) - The Irish winter came early in October with another lockdown. Review of #unforgettableyear 2020 continues.
- [Unforgettable Year: September 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-september-2020/) - In September, Covid-19 returned with a vengeance, but by now there was considerable disagreement over elusive facts. 2020 #unforgettableyear
- [Unforgettable Year: August 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-august-2020/) - Many Europeans enjoyed a blissful August while storm clouds gathered overhead. Our Review of 2020 #Unforgettableyear continues.
- [Unforgettable Year: July 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-july-2020/) - As the pandemic subsided during the summer months in Europe, the southern states of the United States experienced a surge in July
- [Candidate for the Roberts Prize](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/candidate-for-the-roberts-prize/) - 'The significance of discovery lies exactly in the degree to which it can be appreciated and put to use by the human community.' Fiction from Sarah Johnson...
- [Spain: Vegan Jailed for ‘Glorifying Terrorism’](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/spain-vegan-jailed-for-glorifying-terrorism/) - An exclusive interview with a young Spanish vegan incarcerated for twelve months on trumped up terrorism charges.
- [Unforgettable Year: June 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-june-2020/) - June brought criticism of Big Data censorship and the coverage of the pandemic in mainstream media.
- [Unforgettable Year: May 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-may-2020/) - By May concerns around the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of the pandemic were apparent. Our review of 2020 #unforgettable year continues
- [Unforgettable Year: March 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-march-2020/) - ‘It’ had well truly arrived by March insidiously working its way into our lives like an unwanted guest... Our review of 2020 continues
- [Unforgettable Year: February 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-february-2020/) - By February there was a scent of danger in Bull Moose's nostrils, we continue our survey of 2020 an #unforgettableyear in February.
- [Unforgettable Year: January 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/unforgettable-year-january-2020/) - Through the twelve days of Christmas we are looking back on 2020, an #unforgettableyear We begin with a nostalgic survey of January
- [Democracy in Decay: Steve Bannon & Jordan Peterson](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/democracy-in-decay-steve-bannon-and-jordan-peterson/) - Increasing avoidance of news content is linked to the tactics of Steve Bannon who has targeted followers of Jordan Peterson the first internet intellectual.
- [Christmas Traditions Old and New](https://cassandravoices.com/society/christmas-traditions-old-and-new/) - Andrea Reynell explores the origins of well-known Christmas traditions drawn from our pagan ancestors and reveals some ways of enjoying greener seasonal cheer.
- [Poetry: James Harpur](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-james-harpur/) - James Harpur brings us on a poetic journey of Christmases past, present and to come.
- [By Hook or By Crook](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/by-hook-or-by-crook/) - Underwater photographer Daniel McAuley leads us on another virtual dive. This time to his three favourite entry points along Hook Head in County Wexford.
- [Gradations of Evil: Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism](https://cassandravoices.com/history/gradations-of-evil-neoliberalism-and-neoconservatism/) - David Langwallner inveighs against the distinct evils of neoliberalism and neoconservatism that have shaped our time.
- [Recalling W.G. Sebald](https://cassandravoices.com/history/recalling-w-g-sebald/) - In a culture of casual forgetfulness, and through the prism of the immigrant experience, W.G. Sebald compels us to remember a dark European history.
- [Poetry - Edward Clarke](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-edward-clarke/) - In this new poem by Edward Clarke 'a terrible kind of nervousness' gives way to 'the gifts you’ll leave.'
- [Vendev's Contest](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/vendevs-contest/) - Boris and Semyon's last night in the city turns sour after encountering Vendev, the artful thief.
- [The Algorithm of Evil](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/the-algorithm-of-evil/) - Dr Marcus de Brun argues that the origins of advertising lie in the ancient debate between Socrates and the Sophists who proved facile arguments with true facts
- [Greg Clifford Announces Latest Release](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/greg-clifford-announces-latest-release/) - Shot in Co. Sligo, Werner Herzog’s aesthetic is the driving force behind the video for Greg Cliffords's latest musical release Brontide.
- [Poetry - Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-4/) - A new work from Kevin Higgins in which he renews his vows at the high alter of liberalism.
- [Irish Musicians’ Lives Without Live Music](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/irish-musicians-lives-without-live-music/) - We asked twelve Irish musicians and others working in the live music industry to strike four notes in response to the challenges of 2020. Here's what they said
- [Irish Prison Reform Long Overdue](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/irish-prison-reform-long-overdue/) - Features of a nineteenth century penal system remain in Ireland. Meaningful reform offers Minister McEntee an opportunity to address high rates of recidivism.
- [Open Mike](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/open-mike/) - The lives and loves of 'jobbing' musicians on French Riviera come under the microscope in new fiction from Yona Shiryan Caffrey.
- [Featured Artist: Kimberley Wallis](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-kim-wallis/) - “Don’t make eye contact with the crazy” Featured artist Kimberly Wallis rekindled her photographic practice on Melbourne's commuter trains using a mobile phone.
- [Musician of the Month: Matthew Noone](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-matthew-noone/) - From rock 'n' roll beginnings in Brisbane to the sarod in Kalkota there began a journey bringing connection between Irish traditional music and Indian culture.
- [A Sanctuary away from Ireland's Cow Herds](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/a-sanctuary-away-from-irelands-cow-herds/) - Frank Armstrong explores the post-colonial nature of Irish farming, and attitudes towards the land.
- [Reform or we are Scrooged](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/reform-or-we-are-scrooged/) - In bleak times we may draw on the wisdom of Charles Dickens, as the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come loom before us.
- [Purchase Cuban Love Songs](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/purchase-cuban-love-songs/) - Edited by Ronan Sheehan under the imprint of Cassandra Voices, Cuban Love Songs is a selection of Cuban poems translated and interpreted by Irish writers.
- [Poetry: Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetrykevinhiggins/) - Warning: Kevin Higgins's take on the Presidential Black Forest Gateaux may give rise to a certain level indigestion.
- [A Background in Science](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/a-background-in-science/) - Manus stands in opposition to an anti-mask crowd but is more bothered by the sectarian and racist rhetoric, before heading to another Free Julian Assange rally.
- [When the Unthinkable Becomes the Everyday: Covid-19 and Authoritarianism](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/when-the-unthinkable-becomes-the-everyday-covid-19-and-authoritarianism/) - 'A state of emergency is the best friend of the would-be-dictator' Andrew Linnane wonders whether our response to Covid-19 is undermining our democracy.
- [Public Intellectual Series: Religion](https://cassandravoices.com/history/public-intellectual-series-religion/) - Christianity has long married the exchange of goods with the exchange of gods, but David Langwallner wonders if religions may still confront evil in this world
- [Niall](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/niall/) - "They shoot pool like they’re born for it. Some for cash,others for pride or thrills;there’s no sole reigning champion. Anyone might wear the crown" New Fiction
- [Featured Artist: Aga Szot & The Icon Factory](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/featured-artist-aga-szot-the-icon-factory/) - With hard work, determination, passion, love and seeing the possibility of creating impossibly Aga Szot has developed the Icon Factory space in Temple Bar.
- [Covid-19: Questioning the Three Mantras](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/covid-19-questioning-the-three-mantras/) - Dr Billy Ralph weighs up the inherent costs, and questions the real effectiveness, of the three primary injunctions introduced to tackle the pandemic.
- [A Curious Irish Disregard for Historic Buildings](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/a-curious-irish-disregard-for-historic-buildings/) - Andrea Reynell mourns the loss of numerous Irish historic buildings, and considers how we may better engage with and protect our heritage.
- [The Public Intellectual Series So Far](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-public-intellectual-series-so-far/) - The public intellectual series is an attempt to revive the idea of the public intellectual, which we consider a necessary ingredient in a healthy body politic.
- [Aye, Dead On](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/aye-dead-on/) - Neil Burns takes issue with the 'artsy sentimentality' of those objecting to James Joyce's 'Dead House' on Usher's Island being converted into a hostel.
- [Musician of the Month: Sonic Gate Studios](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-sonic-gate-studios/) - This month's accolade is shared by Sonic Gates Studios a collective from tremendously different cultural backgrounds, educations, faiths and musical traditions.
- [Poetry - Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-3/) - The better quality of witch hunt /will provide you with a plate of sandwiches which, these days, /would likely include /coeliac and vegan options Kevin Higgins
- [Jewel Anemones Crowning the Irish Coast](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/jewel-anemones-crowning-the-irish-coast/) - Jewel Anemones, or corynactis viridis, are the hidden jewels beloved of divers found along Irish coast line. Dan Mc Auley reveals more about this hidden world.
- [Jerry’s Dead](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/jerrys-dead/) - "The weed was proving itself to be all things" In a haze of marijuana smoke news of Jerry Garcia's death is announced. New fiction from Dara Waldron.
- [Poetry - Luke Stromberg](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-luke-stromberg/) - death was the first / Obscenity—the one from which the rest, / In time, would find their way. New Poetry from Luke Stromberg.
- [Finding Alexandr(i)a: : a Creative Journey through Plutarch, Cavafy, Leonard Cohen and Laura Marling](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/finding-alexandria-a-creative-journey-through-plutarch-cavafy-leonard-cohen-and-laura-marling/) - Imogen Stead explores the origins in antiquity of Anthony's flight from Alexandra culminating in poetry from Cavafy and songs by Leonard Cohen and Laura Marling
- [Poetry: Ernest Hilbert](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-ernest-hilbert/) - Three new poems from the restless pen of Ernest Hilbert uncover cosmopolitan decadence before finding inspiration among the stones of Antiquity.
- [Nobody told me there'd be days like these](https://cassandravoices.com/society/nobody-told-me-thered-be-days-like-these/) - Billy O Hanluain likens the imposition of a second lockdown on Ireland to the use of anti-depressants when other forms of therapy would be more appropriate.
- [Covid-19 in Ireland: Elusive Facts](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/covid-19-in-ireland-elusive-facts/) - Frank Armstrong attempts to set the record straight on what has happened in Ireland during the pandemic, and identifies a key reason for an inflexible strategy.
- [Poetry - Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins-2/) - 'A barrel of industrial waste poured into a suit / donated by a casino owner who knows people.' Kevin Higgins looks forward to the U.S. Presidential election.
- [The Bonds that Hold Society Together](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/the-bonds-that-hold-society-together/) - "Isn’t it clear by now that the damage that has been caused, and will be caused, is far greater than any perceived health crisis." Another doctor speaks out.
- [Shipwrecks: Ireland’s Manmade Reefs](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/shipwrecks-irelands-manmade-reefs/) - Dan McAuley takes us on a deep dive to two of the remarkable 18,000 shipwrecks around the Irish coastline, where as the human imprint recedes nature takes hold.
- [Seal the Deal](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/seal-the-deal/) - Dan Mc Auley wonders whether an accommodation can be found between the seals he adores and any fishermen who wish to cull their numbers.
- [Amy Coney Barrett and "Originalism"](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/amy-coney-barrett-and-originalism/) - David Langwallner explores the profound ramification of Amy Coney Barrett being appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- [The Public Intellectual Series: Christopher Hitchens](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-public-intellectual-series-christopher-hitchens/) - David Langwallner explores the legacy of Christopher Hitchens who recognised the danger of religious fundamentalism but fatally supported the invasion or Iraq.
- [Irish Government Requires Additional Insights](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/irish-government-requires-additional-insights/) - The Irish government should take in broader insights than those now offered by NPHET to chart a humane course through the pandemic.
- [Covid-19: What is in a Name?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/covid-19-what-is-in-a-name/) - Ronan Sheehan muses on the Classical origins of terminology in use for Covid-19, and some of the strange usages that have emerged.
- [Cuba Libre! At Home with Ronan Sheehan](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/cuba-libre-at-home-with-ronan-sheehan/) - Andrea Reynell meets acclaimed man-of-letters Ronan Sheahan ahead of the publication of his new book of translations by Irish authors of Cuban poems.
- [Looking Back on Lockdown](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/looking-back-on-lockdown/) - With lockdown under consideration in some European states, including Ireland, we look back on a selection of testimonies from that period and beyond.
- [Photo Essay: Mallorca after the Pandemic](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/no-comment/photo-essay-mallorca-after-the-pandemic/) - In May of 2019, 1.8m tourists visited the island of Mallorca, now the resorts of Magaluf, Palmanova and Santa Ponça are ghost towns under the sun.
- [The British Radical Tradition: E.P. Thompson](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-british-radical-tradition-e-p-thompson/) - David Langwallner explores the legacy of radical historian E.P. Thompson, who unlike Marxists saw a value in the rule of law, and favoured facts over theory.
- [Game Over: American Democracy in Tatters](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/game-over-american-democracy-in-tatters/) - Battle lines are drawn for a generation with Amy Coney Barrett's appointment to the Supreme Court. Fundamentalism is in the box seat and democracy is in peril.
- [‘If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere’](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/if-we-winter-this-one-out-we-can-summer-anywhere/) - Last winter photographer Barry Delaney developed a sore throat that put him in a state of panic, but the sea around Dun Laoghaire helped him recover his poise.
- [Musician of the Month: Fergus Kelly](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-fergus-kelly/) - Musician of the Month Fergus Kelly brings interdisciplinary skills and a post-punk spirit of DIY alongside attentive listening to his musical practice.
- [The Rise of the Machines](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-rise-of-the-machines/) - Like it or loath it, Artificial Intelligence is already used in a range of common applications. Rick Mukhopadhyay examines the details and assess the dangers.
- [The Horse That Kicks](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-horse-that-kicks/) - "Heroin addicts tend to mate for life. Like dilapidated swans." Neil Burns reflects on his work in an emergency accommodation in Dublin for nearly two years.
- [Silent Night or a New Christmas Carol from Greta Thunberg?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/silent-night-or-a-new-christmas-carol-from-greta-thunberg/) - David Langwallner lauds the moral clarity of Greta Thunberg and in a new postscript urges the Nobel Peace Prize committee to award her their annual prize.
- [Poetry: Mischa Willett](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-mischa-willet/) - Three visionary new poems from Mischa Willet inpired by Ovid, dark woods and Kurt Vonnegut.
- [Tina](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/tina/) - Among widows cocooning, no one knows who’ll be next to go. 'Tina' is a lush portrayal of rural Israeli life from Yona Caffrey.
- [Italy: Thankfully it is Summer](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/italy-thankfully-it-is-summer/) - Photographer Daniele Idini travelled from North to South of Italy and discovered a country in severe economic crisis desperate to resume the good life.
- [Public Intellectuals: Jürgen Habermas](https://cassandravoices.com/history/public-intellectuals-jurgen-habermas/) - David Langwallner considers Jürgen Habermas, among the last in the line of transcendent, rigorous intellectuals of the Old Left, with a new codicil included.
- [Lebanon's Rotten Leadership Seems Irreplaceable](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/lebanons-rotten-leadership-seems-irreplaceable/) - In the wake of the Beirut explosion on August 4th, contempt for Lebanon's traditional power brokers has reached epidemic proportions writes Luke FitzHerbert.
- [Homage to Henry Kissinger](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/homage-to-henry-kissinger/) - New Poetry in which Kevin Higgins demonstrates his undying devotion to Henry Kissinger.
- [And as for Loss ... the Next New Low](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/and-as-for-loss-the-next-new-low/) - Twenty-one-years of planning holidays came to a halt when Brian Mooney's partner lost her battle with cancer. He expressed his grief in song writing.
- [The New Abnormal](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-new-abnormal/) - Andrea Reynell considers new ways of socialising in Dublin, and beyond, during the New Abnormal,
- [Dublin Bay’s Unsettled Future](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/dublin-bays-unsettled-future/) - After being gifted a present of a diving mask Daniel Mc Auley fell in love with Ireland's underwater wilderness, but is now concerned by threats to Dublin Bay.
- [Talking Through Your Chin-Box 3.2](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/talking-through-your-chin-box-3-2/) - Carl acquires a Chin-Box 3.2. which he can tune it to any voice in the world, and chooses Peter Falk from Columbo. New fiction from Camillus John.
- [Poetry – Haley Hodges](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-haley-hodges/) - New poetry from Haley Hodges: 'Make of me, too, a Microcosm'
- [Michael McNamara: “It’s About Society”](https://cassandravoices.com/society/michael-mcnamara-its-about-society/) - Independent TD Michael McNamara explores the broader ramifications for Irish society on further legislation aimed at keeping pubs in compliance with regulations
- [Musician of the Month: Gemma Dunleavy](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-gemma-dunleavy/) - Distinctly talented singer-songwriter Gemma Dunleavy gives voice to perspectives on life and the music inspired by Sheriff Street on her new release Up De Flats
- [In Search of Greek Inspiration](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/in-search-of-greek-inspiration/) - Drawing on mythology and philosophy, Frank Armstrong takes an odyssey from Rome to Athens and beyond to discover why Greece avoided the worst of the pandemic.
- [WARNING: The (Open) Secret lives of Content Moderators](https://cassandravoices.com/society/warning-the-open-secret-lives-of-content-moderators/) - "We are trash to them, just a body in a seat’ shares a content moderator." Exclusive interviews and insights into the stressful lives of Content Moderators.
- [Covid-19: The Perfect Storm](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/covid-19-the-perfect-storm/) - Dr Marcus de Brun identifies a conflict of interest in Professor Luke O'Neill's argument for mandatory masks, which obscure the real issues at stake.
- [Our Environmental Future Depends on Tiny Circuit Boards](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/our-environmental-future-depends-on-tiny-circuit-boards/)
- [Poetry – Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kevin-higgins/) - Another poem from Kevin Higgins laced with characteristic satirical wit.
- [BREAK AN EXIT VI: Hmong Jamón — or the end of the Catalonely](https://cassandravoices.com/society/break-an-exit-vi-hmong-jamon-or-the-end-of-the-catalonely/) - Armed with Rachel Carson’s The Marginal World, the Hectic Fish takes to the highland's of Vietnam in Covid-19 hibernation in search of the Hmong People.
- [Poetry – Oliver Tickell](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-oliver-tickell/) - New poetry from Oliver Tickell, a former editor of The Ecologist.
- [The Club](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-club/) - “Your father has cancer.” Seven harrowing years gains Glenda Miller entry to one club, but entry to another awaits after the agonies of the birthing process.
- [Musician of the Month: Undine](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-undine/) - Enigmatic avant-garde artist Undine presents new music, words, and visions
- [Government Precautions: An Unethical Human Experiment](https://cassandravoices.com/society/government-precautions-an-unethical-human-experiment/) - "Never before has such a social experiment occurred on such a global scale." Alex Ugur points to untold damage of disproportionate measures and a hidden agenda.
- [The Shelbourne’s Moving Statues](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/the-shelbournes-moving-statues/) - Billy O Hanluain responds to the decision of Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel to remove statues depicting Nubian slaves that were erected in 1867.
- [B9: Life in a Louisiana Care Home’s Covid-19 Cluster](https://cassandravoices.com/society/b9-life-in-a-louisiana-care-homes-covid-19-cluster/) - Alongside a roommate suffering from dementia as Covid-19 sweeps through her care home, Linda Barnard develops renewed appreciation of what is important in life.
- [Sé Merry Doyle: James Joyce - Reluctant Groom](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/se-merry-doyle-james-joyce-the-reluctant-groom/) - Sé Merry Doyle discusses his new film James Joyce - Reluctant Groom with Niall McDevitt guiding us through a London landscape with unknown Joycean associations.
- [Tea for Two](https://cassandravoices.com/society/tea-for-two/) - After dropping out of school at the age of fifteen, Nick Feery 'the boy from Tore' received a start from a good employer and made the most of it.
- [Covid-19 and the Gig Economy: Hope Springs Eternal](https://cassandravoices.com/history/covid-19-and-the-gig-economy-hope-springs-eternal/) - While some appreciate the flexibility, gig work does not satisfy at least three of Maslow’s five Hierarchy of Needs and is more precarious during the pandemic.
- [Public Intellectual Series: Michel Foucault](https://cassandravoices.com/history/public-intellectual-series-michel-foucault/) - A wide-ranging discussion of the work of the French philosopher who anticipated many contemporary trends, now with a new preface in the wake of the pandemic.
- [Multiculturalism in an Age of Extremes](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/multiculturalism-in-an-age-of-extremes/) - For multiculturalism to be viable David Langwallner argues that we must reassert the universality of human rights and counter pernicious contemporary trends.
- [Corporate Media Bias Against the Cuban Revolution](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/corporate-media-bias-against-the-cuban-revolution/) - It’s an axiom of U.S. journalism that if it’s anti-Cuban it has to be true. Keith Bolander explores ongoing vilification of the Revolution.
- [Plagues, Autos-da-fé, and Music](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/plagues-autos-da-fe-and-music/) - Acclaimed Irish singer Caitríona O'Leary outlines the fascinating historical and musical inspiration behind the Anakronos project 'The Red Book of Ossory'
- [Confronting Ireland’s Drug Epidemic](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/confronting-irelands-drug-epidemic/) - On average, a person dies from a drug overdose every day in Ireland, but government policies have long failed to address this issue adequately.
- [‘This is science which should go on trial’](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/this-is-science-which-should-go-on-trial/) - Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt rebukes the global scientific response to Covid-19; in particular the role of Imperial College's Neil Ferguson.
- [COVID-19 and SMEs: Survival, Resilience and Renewal](https://cassandravoices.com/history/covid-19-and-smes-survival-resilience-and-renewal/) - Small and medium sized business are the competitive engine of our economy. Dr Rick Mukhopadhyay identifies how these can survive and prosper during this period
- [Where have all the Lefties Gone?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/where-have-all-the-lefties-gone/) - Marcus de Brun ponders the question: Is it wrong for me to live out a life of comfort, whilst all too many others are living in squalor?
- [Artist of the Month: Kari Cahill](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/artist-of-the-month-kari-cahill/) - Having co-created the Lie of the Land project, Kari Cahill recently moved to Sligo where she is developing new colours in a mythical landscape.
- [Poetry – Ben Keatinge](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-ben-keatinge/)
- [Freedom's Just Another Word](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/freedoms-just-another-word/) - Barry Delaney travelled deep into America in the wake of Trump's Presidential victory. He shares this precious archive and vivid description.
- [Musician of the Month: Niwel Tsumbu](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-niwel-tsumbu/) - Legendary, Irish-based, Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu is Musician of the Month for April. He says music is a universal language that influences us all.
- [Musician of the Month: Damien Lennon](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-damien-lennon/) - Damien Lennon of experimental music group Zeropunkt writes about cosmic immensity, temporality, and dystopian improvisations
- [Covid-19: Young Lives Count Too](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/covid-19-young-lives-count-too/) - Lives may have been saved for now by closing down the economy, but it should not be at the expense of the future of our children warns Laurent Muzellec
- [World Refugee Day: the Importance of Storytelling](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/world-refugee-day-the-importance-of-storytelling/) - On World Refugee Day, a humble reminder to journalists, artists, researchers, and other supporters to maintain ethical standards in storytelling
- [How Can Something So Wrong, Feel So Captain Sensible?](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/how-can-something-so-wrong-feel-so-captain-sensible/) - It’s justified and ancient. Rob the rich, and give their money to the poor. The real facts don’t matter. Only the goal and dream of ultimate justice.
- [Enforcing Environmental Rights](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/enforcing-environmental-rights/) - David Langwallner examines the various species of environmental rights, and draws inspiration from the writings of Arundhati Roy and others.
- [Quarantine (and then there will be the music)](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/quarantine-and-then-there-will-be-the-music/) - Constance Hauman was on the brink of moving to Vienna when the virus struck New York. This provided an opportunity to pursue a new musical adventure.
- [Covid-19: are we really all in this together?](https://cassandravoices.com/society/covid-19-are-we-really-all-in-this-together/) - Justin Frewen explores how those on lowest incomes have suffered most through this crisis while many among the wealthiest have seen their fortunes grow.
- [SIDE EFFECT](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/side-effect/) - A new poem from Micheal O'Siadhail from New York.
- [Happy Birthday Mr Yeats](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/happy-birthday-mr-yeats/) - On the 155th birthday of W.B. Yeats Frank Armstrong examines the legacy of a controversial figure, who expressed sympathies for fascism in the 1930s.
- [Enemies of the People](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/enemies-of-the-people/)
- [Joy](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/andrew-hamilton-joy/) - 'Life always seeps in': acclaimed Irish composer Andrew Hamilton discusses his new album ‘Joy’ and the inspiration behind it.
- [Musician of the Month: Richard Egan](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-richard-egan/) - "Experiences that make life worth living are perfect fodder for a song." Richard Egan explores the song-writing process.
- [The State of Irish Agriculture](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/the-state-of-irish-agriculture/) - The science behind Irish agriculture needs to involve a whole systems approach that takes into account all of the ecological consequences.
- [Photo Desk: Black Lives Matter Sligo Protest June 5th 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/no-comment/photo-desk-black-lives-matter-sligo-protest-june-5th-2020/) - Around 200 people gathered in Sligo. The majority of those attending were young, addressing George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and Direct Provision in Ireland.
- [Photo Desk: Black Lives Matter Dublin Protest June 6th 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/no-comment/photo-desk-black-lives-matter-dublin-protest-june-6th-2020/) - Thousands gather in front of the American Embassy in Dublin to protest against racism and all forms of exclusion including Direct Provision.
- [Repression and Covid-19](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/repression-and-covid-19/) - Although certain laws were justified there is widespread concern governments might keep repressive and increased surveillance measures in place post Covid-19.
- [The First Cassandra Voices Podcast – Italian Library Music](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/the-first-cassandra-voices-podcast-italian-library-music/) - In our first Cassandra Voices Music Podcast Nicola Bigatti introduces Italian Library Music that produced artists of the calibre of Ennio Morricone.
- [Photo Desk: Black Lives Matter Dublin Protest June 1st 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/no-comment/photo-desk-black-lives-matter-dublin-protest-june-1st-2020/) - A selection of images from Monday's March in Dublin.
- [The Musical Duel of Apollo and Pan](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/the-musical-duel-of-apollo-and-pan/) - The musical duel between Pan and Apollo reflects a timeless debate between rationality and intuition that continues to rage in our time.
- [The Ninth Rose](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/the-ninth-rose/) - Long ago and far away, in an Eastern European country called...
- [Irish Propaganda II – from Celtic to Paper Tiger](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/irish-propaganda-ii-from-celtic-to-paper-tiger/)
- [Traditional way of life protects Amazonian People from Covid-19](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/traditional-way-of-life-protects-amazonian-people-from-covid-19/) - As Covid-19 sweeps through Amazonia sustainable food practices are creating resilience, although the effects of Western colonisation endure.
- [I Do Not Consent](https://cassandravoices.com/society/i-do-not-consent/) - After stepping back from the 24-hour news cycles, and the social media arguments and rebuttals, Rob Coffey now has an important message in response to Covid-19.
- [Spent Batteries](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/spent-batteries/) - Hal's visit to an Afro shop in Youghal leads to an encounter with a woman holding a family secret.
- [A Breakthrough to Save Humanity](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/a-breakthrough-to-save-humanity/) - Frank Armstrong argues that Veganism is the great adventure of our time that can save us from a destructive relationship with the natural world.
- [TEXTILE MOUNTAIN: The Hidden Burden of our Fashion Waste](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/textile-mountain-the-hidden-burden-of-our-fashion-waste/) - Filmmaker Fellipe Lopes and Producer Catriona Rogerson will host a preview of their new documentary TEXTILE MOUNTAIN: The Hidden Burden of our Fashion Waste
- [Review: Notes from an Apocalypse](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/review-notes-from-an-apocalypse/) - 'Is it possible to be terrified and bored at the same time?' John Gibbons reviews Mark O'Connell's vision of an apocalypse we are failing to avert.
- [No Comment - An Garda Síochána Try to Halt Debenham Workers' Demonstration](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/irish/no-comment-an-garda-siochana-try-to-halt-debenham-workers-demonstration/) - A socially distanced protest outside a bankrupt department store is called to a halt by An Garda Síochána in Dublin.
- [Drinking from the Waters of Prevention in Public Health](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/drinking-from-the-waters-of-prevention-in-public-health/) - Frank Armstrong's article from the archives that urges reform to broken health systems that do not address underlying causes of fatal illnesses.
- [Fear and Loathing in the Time of Covid-19](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/fear-and-loathing-in-the-time-of-covid-19/) - "In times of plague and pestilence, fear is an omnipresent companion." Justin Frewen explores racial stigmatisation and other dimensions to this Pandemic.
- [Poetry: Alex Winter](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-alex-winter/) - New poetry from Alex Winter exploring profound questions of our time from Grenfell to the Pandemic.
- [Banned](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/banned/) - "He couldn’t see that the magic was gone. Once someone saw the ugly side, they couldn’t unsee it." New short fiction from Yona Caffrey.
- [Porto Under Lockdown](https://cassandravoices.com/society/porto-under-lockdown/) - Thriving Porto is now filled with a deafening silence that roams the empty streets of the city but Felipe Monteiro takes inspiration from the birds in the trees
- [The End of American Leadership](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/the-end-of-american-leadership/) - FDR said there was nothing to fear but fear itself, while JFK asked what you can do for your country; now Donald Trump resorts to blaming foreigners.
- [Declan Costello and the Decline of the Just Society](https://cassandravoices.com/history/declan-costello-and-the-decline-of-the-just-society/) - The failure of the Just Society movement within Fine Gael was a turning point in Irish history. David Langwallner recalls the career of Declan Costello.
- [Victor](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/victor/) - Fiction from Walter Comoglio which appears in his first book “La sera che ho deciso di bloccare la strada” winner of the 2017 POP prize Italy as best debut.
- [Musician of the Month: Maija Sofia](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-maija-sofia/) - Musician of the month Maija Sofia says the whole point of making a song is to evoke the strangeness that occurs when the right words are put to the right chords
- [Leaving Certificate Under Lockdown](https://cassandravoices.com/society/leaving-certificate-under-lockdown/) - Elizabeth Akinwande confronts the Leaving Certificate under Lockdown and recalls the experience of facing the Junior Cert in emergency accommodation.
- [Poetry - Fintan O'Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-fintan-ohiggins/) - Fintan O'Higgins poem evokes the unique atmosphere of the Natural History Museum in Dublin.
- [Ethical questions in the time of Covid-19? Ask a philosopher](https://cassandravoices.com/history/ethical-questions-in-the-time-of-covid-19-ask-a-philosopher/) - Do you have ethical questions about Covid-19? UCD Philosophers are ready to take your questions.
- [Covid-19: Dispatch from Atlanta](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/covid-19-dispatch-from-atlanta/) - Bull Moose returns to welcome the end of Georgia's lockdown and calls for a a voice of reason from the center.
- [Reflections on Covid-19](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/reflections-on-covid-19/) - Essential reading for anyone seeking a global understanding of the Covid-19 pandemic from an experienced humanitarian worker with experience confronting Ebola.
- [An A.B.C. of Irish Modernism: Apocalypse, Boredom, Crack](https://cassandravoices.com/history/an-a-b-c-of-irish-modernism-apocalypse-boredom-crack/) - Peter Higgins adds the dimension of craic to the suggestion that Apocalypse and Boredom are forces besetting Irish writers such as W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
- [Shane MacGowan and 'the Riddle of Ballinalee' in Bob Dylan's 'I Contain Multitudes'](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/shane-macgowan-and-the-riddle-of-ballinalee-in-bob-dylans-i-contain-multitudes/) - Shane MacGowan has revealed to us what he knows about 'the Riddle of Ballinalee' in Bob Dylan's 'I Contain Multitudes' and our sleuth is unmasked.
- [Bob Dylan's New Song and Ballinalee County Longford](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/bob-dylans-new-song-and-ballinalee-county-longford/) - Bob Dylan's new song I Contain Multitudes contains a reference to the village of Ballinalee in Longford. One of our correspondents has a theory as to why...
- [Review Bob Dylan’s – 'Murder Most Foul'](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/review-bob-dylans-murder-most-foul/) - David Langwallner hails Bob Dylan as the greatest creative artist of the 20th century, and identifies an autumnal clarity in his latest song Murder Most Foul.
- [Diary of Pandemic Doctor: Nursing Home Chaos](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/diary-of-pandemic-nursing-home-chaos/) - A doctor tending to elderly patients explains how the virus has spread its wings to envelope the entire campus and wonders who is going to help.
- [Covid-19: A View from Sweden](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/covid-19-a-view-from-sweden/) - A long-term foreign resident in Sweden reveals the reasoning behind the country's controversial response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
- [The Final Frontier: Post-Capitalism and the Economics of the Future](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/the-final-frontier-post-capitalism-and-the-economics-of-the-future/) - Humanity stands at an unprecedented crossroads, but as Eoin Glackin ponders, perhaps fiction has lit one of the potential roads ahead.
- [John Gray: the UK's Leading Public Intellectual](https://cassandravoices.com/history/john-gray-the-uks-leading-public-intellectual/) - David Langwallner continues his Public Intellectual series with an exploration of John Gray's journey from Thatcherism to approval of Gaian spirituality.
- [To the Ends of the Earth: Earth Day 50 Years On](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/to-the-ends-of-the-earth-earth-day-50-years-on/) - 1 in 10 Americans marked the first World Earth Day 50 years ago. But early hopes have given way to hyper partisan politics, global warming and a mass extinction
- [Do Not Resuscitate](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/do-not-resuscitate/) - Aged 84, but still in 'outrageous' health Bob Quinn bemoans the recrudescence of Darwinist ideas in certain governments' responses to the Coronavirus.
- [Cassandra Voices Vol II](https://cassandravoices.com/shop/cassandra-voices-volume-ii-is-available-to-purchase/)
- [China Under Lockdown: Another Cultural Revolution?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/china-under-lockdown-another-cultural-revolution/) - Most conspiracy theories we hear are untrue, but China may be on the brink of another dystopian Cultural Revolution according to one long-term Western resident.
- [Covid-19: What Twitter is Saying](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/covid-19-what-twitter-is-saying/) - On Twitter Dr Samuel McManus explains Norway's successful response to the crisis while Jason Hicknel lays out an economic formula for accommodating de-growth.
- [In Conversation with David Langwallner](https://cassandravoices.com/history/in-conversation-with-david-langwallner/) - ‘I don’t like textbook people – they are useless and shouldn’t be in decision-making positions.’ David Langwallner isn't holding back in this interview.
- [Poems for Holy Week](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poems-for-holy-week/) - Poetry editor Edward Clarke selects poems from Paul Curran, Billy O'Hanluain, Haley Hodges and his own work to mark Holy Week.
- [Covid-19: E.U. Teeters on the Brink](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/covid-19-e-u-teeters-on-the-brink/) - Kyran Fitzgerald assesses the financial response of the EU to the Covid-19 crisis, with another North-South divide but with France taking the southern side.
- [A Voice from the Cocoon](https://cassandravoices.com/society/a-voice-from-the-cocoon/) - Fergus Armstrong is getting used to foreshortened horizons as he draws on the wisdom of Zen master Willigis Jaeger in search of the Truth.
- [Underlying Conditions Exacerbate Covid-19 Pandemic](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/underlying-conditions-exacerbate-covid-19-pandemic/) - Frank Armstrong calls for generous Big Government intervention but an unintrusive Small State to address factors acerbating the Covid-19 Pandemic.
- [A Slice](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/a-slice/) - Leaving The Workman’s Club on Wellington Quay late one night Robbie is looking forward to going back to an empty apartment.
- [Artist of the Month – Uluç Ali Kılıç](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/artist-of-the-month-uluc-ali-kilic/) - Artist of the Month Uluc Ali Kilic developed alanguage of expression of his own to respond to the traumas of our time, including environmental destruction.
- [DUMAINE](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/dumaine/) - Ilsa Monique Carter returns with another tale set in New Orleans.
- [Jonathan Sumption on Law and Politics](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/jonathan-sumption-on-law-and-politics/) - David Langwallner reviews Jonathan Sumption's latest commentary on the threats to liberal values during this period.
- [Under Lockdown in Piedmont](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/under-lockdown-in-piedmont/) - Cooped up in an apartment Silvia Panizza feels an animal nature rising up, and is treating this as a guide as to where to ground her activities from now on.
- [The Legal Challenge of Preventing Future Misinfodemics in the Age of Digital Activism](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/the-legal-challenge-of-preventing-future-misinfodemics-in-the-age-of-digital-activism/) - Ethan Shattock discusses the challenge of curbing fake news while maintaining a vital space for hashtag activism.
- [Barcelona Under Lockdown](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/barcelona-under-lockdown/) - After less than two months living it up in Barcellona, Diego Pugliese woke up to the extended nightmare of the lockdown.
- [Poetry – Radu Vancu](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-radu-vancu/) - Renowned Romanian poet Radu Vancu serves his terse verse along with a recording spoken in the original Romanian.
- [Diary of a Pandemic Doctor Part 1](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/diary-of-a-pandemic-doctor/) - A medical doctor poetically conveys his steely determination in the face of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world.
- [Never Such a Meal](https://cassandravoices.com/society/never-such-a-meal/) - Bob Quinn revisits one of the finest suppers of his life and discovers that Coronavirus isn't to blame for everything that's gone wrong in the world.
- [Diary of a Pandemic Doctor Part 2](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/diary-of-a-pandemic-doctor-part-2/) - The Pandemic Doctor discusses the place of death, arguing that once we get through this we may reach a greater appreciation of life.
- [Coronavirus - a Poem](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/coronavirus-a-poem/) - A poem prompted by the onset of the pandemic.
- [Vigilance Required Against ‘Seepage’ of Emergency Legislation in Ireland](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/vigilance-required-against-seepage-of-emergency-legislation-in-ireland/) - Barrister and author Alice Harrison locates the danger of seepage of emergency powers into ordinary usage using the example of Special Criminal Court.
- [No Comment: A view of Sligo Town amid the Covid-19 Pandemic](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/no-comment/no-comment-a-view-of-sligo-town-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic/)
- [Journeys of Displacement – a Personal Reflection](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/journeys-of-displacement-a-personal-reflection/) - Human rights campaigner Caoimhe Butterly reflects on the varied forms of displacement that motivate her work.
- [Documentary – Patrick Scott: Golden Boy](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/documentary-patrick-scott-golden-boy/) - The latest offering from Sé Merry Doyle’s Loopline Collection is an intimate documentary on the great Irish artist Patrick Scott.
- [Musician of the Month – Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-caoimhin-oraghallaigh/) - Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh discusses the advantages of his 10-string hardanger d’amore fiddle and his collaboration with designer Rossi McAuley.
- [Ireland's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/irelands-response-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic/) - Frank Armstrong charts the country's response to the pandemic sweeping the world, with hope remaining that the curve of new cases can be flattened.
- [It is Time for a Renewed Deal](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/it-is-time-for-a-renewed-deal/) - David Langwallner argues that we need a Renewed Deal, inspired by FDR's example in 1930s America that will bring Keynesian stabilisation measures.
- [An Introduction to Cassandra Voices III Print Edition](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/an-introduction-to-cassandra-voices-iii-print-edition/) - Editor-in-chief Frank Armstrong explains what lies behind the theme of Displacement in this stylish third print edition.
- [A Rat on the Wall](https://cassandravoices.com/society/a-rat-on-the-wall/) - A look into Catholic schooling in Belfast in the 1960s as a pupil insists that he seen a rat.
- [‘Alive Alive O’ Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/alive-alive-o-interview-with-documentary-filmmaker-se-merry-doyle/) - Watch Sé Merry Doyle's 2001 documentary for free and read an interview with the filmmaker on chronicling the life of the inner city.
- [Prescription: Isolation](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/prescription-isolation/) - A Poem by Sammy Jay exploring the isolation of the Coronavirus experience.
- [Gone](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/gone/) - Anonymous writer the Man in the Black Pyjamas reflects on all what has passed to his Dublin peer group since the jubilation of the marriage equality referendum.
- [Carbon Negative](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/carbon-negative/)
- [Free Documentary – 'Patrick Kavanagh -No Man's Fool'](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/free-documentary-patrick-kavanagh-no-mans-fool/) - Sé Merry Doyle’s intimate portrait of the poet Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967): ‘Patrick Kavanagh – No Man’s Fool’.
- [Kickstart Cassandra!](https://cassandravoices.com/kickstarter/kickstart-cassandra/) - Cassandra Voices is a home for independent voices to inspire new thinking. After two years in operation we are seeking financial support from our readers.
- [Public Intellectual Series: Slavoj Žižek](https://cassandravoices.com/history/public-intellectual-series-slavoj-zizek/) - David Langwallner reviews the work of Slavoj Žižek whose earlier abstruseness and intellectual recklessness has given way to a more coherent Marxist critique.
- [Musician of the Month: Hilary Woods](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/musician-of-the-month-hilary-woods/) - Hilary Woods writes about her forthcoming album for Sacred Bones Records produced by Lasse Marhaug.
- [Musician of the Month: Judith Ring](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/musician-of-the-month-judith-ring/) - Musician of the Month Judith Ring reveals how she transforms everyday 'noised' into music, and the sonic possibilities of different timbres.
- [V.I.P.](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/v-i-p/)
- [Leah's Gaff](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/leahs-gaff/)
- [Coronavirus: a Silver Lining?](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/coronavirus-a-silver-lining/) - A G.P. dealing with the coronavirus says a silver lining could be widespread realisation that the defences we build are only strong if we build them together.
- [Poetry – Mark Burrows](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-mark-burrows/)
- [The Sunset Drive-in Cinema](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/the-sunset-drive-in-cinema/)
- [Artist of the Month: Gerard Dowling](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/artist-of-the-month-gerard-dowling/)
- [International Women’s Day: WomenXBorders](https://cassandravoices.com/society/international-womens-day-womenxborders/) - Marking International Women's Day Sarah Hamilton interviews Sarah Savitt of Virago after the Irish Writer’s Centre’s WomenXBorders event
- [The Rocky Road to a Republic](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/the-rocky-road-to-a-republic/) - Eamonn Kelly argues that submissiveness to authority seen in the 1967 documentary The Rocky Road to Dublin is still evident today with the economy the new deity
- [Elemental Concepts and Sounds](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/elemental-concepts-organic-and-synthetic-sounds/) - Brian Dillon discusses the ideas behind his new solo project The Line. His debut album Matter was released by Bad Soup Records in February.
- [Rugby: the Four Irish Provinces take to the Field](https://cassandravoices.com/society/sport/rugby-the-four-irish-provinces-take-to-the-field/) - As the Irish rugby team prepares to take on England in the Six Nations. Frank Armstrong examines the ingredients of the four provinces that make up the team.
- [Keep Spinning until you Drop](https://cassandravoices.com/society/keep-spinning-until-you-drop/) - Maverick Bob Quinn reveals the number and variety of jobs he held before the age of twenty-five, and the survival instincts of a gyroscope.
- [Gimme Some Now](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/gimme-some-now/) - Paul Gilgunn's Digital_Ritual aims to recalibrate our connection to the digital spectacle and gain the freedom to address some of the global issues we face.
- [Poetry - Kathleen Scott Goldingay](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-kathleen-scott-goldingay/) - The Lamps of the Virgins is a poem drawing inspiration from the Book of Judges.
- [What Next for Rojava?](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/what-next-for-rojava/) - Reductive media narratives portray the Syrian Defence Forces as naive nationalists sacrificing themselves for a Kurdish state but the situation is more complex.
- [We Need Another ‘New Deal’ and Umbrella to Unite Under](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/we-need-another-new-deal-and-a-new-umbrella-to-unite-under/) - Inspired by FDR in the 1930s, David Langwallner demands a New Deal for Ireland including housing, Keynesian stabilisation and EU reform.
- [The Continuing Story of Óglaigh na hÉireann](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/the-continuing-story-of-oglaigh-na-heireann/) - Kevin Higgins heaps scorn on the readers of 'The Sunday O’Duffy' after the recent Irish election in which Sinn Fein emerged as the largest party.
- [Poetry – Kevin Higgins](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/kevin-higgins/) - A satirical poem portraying grant applications as being awarded on spurious grounds.
- [The Confidence Man](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-confidence-man/)
- [Archiving the Recent Past: the Loopline Collection](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/archiving-the-recent-past-the-loopline-collection/)
- [The Long View on the Irish General Election 2020](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/the-long-view-on-the-irish-general-election-2020/) - With Irish politics in flux due to a leftward surge Frank Armstrong charts the origins of liberal reforms and assess the chances of far-right Populism emerging.
- [Meeting Samuel Beckett's Genius in Person and his Plays](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/meeting-samuel-becketts-genius-in-person-and-his-plays/) - David Langwallner recalls an encounter with Samuel Beckett and extols the precision of the last great Modernist, while excoriating an Irish tendency to bluff.
- [What Separates us from Monsters? Dylan Tighe’s Redubbing of Pasolini's Saló](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/what-separates-us-from-monsters-dylan-tighes-redubbing-of-pasolinis-salo/)
- [Lebanon's Perfect Storm](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/lebanons-perfect-storm/) - An account of the deteriorating situation in Lebanon as protestors take to the streets to block a key parliamentary vote and bank cease to issue dollars.
- [Poetry – Lynn Caldwell (with recording)](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-lynn-caldwell/) - Text and Voice Recording of Lynn Caldwell's Holding Vellum to the Light.
- [Poetry – Brendan McCormack](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-brendan-mccormack/) - Two poems by Brendan McCormack exploring love, maternity, and Dublin rain.
- [Caroline Flack and the Painful Lessons of Grief](https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/caroline-flack-and-the-painful-lessons-of-grief/) - Caroline Flack contended with negative thoughts we all face that are amplified in a mediated world. Any suicide is carried forever by those who are left behind.
- [The Late Risers' Manifesto](https://cassandravoices.com/society/the-late-risers-manifesto/)
- [A Composer's Story](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/a-composers-story/) - Acclaimed Irish composer Roger Doyle recalls his classical music education before a stint at the Institute Of Sonology in Utrecht opened new possibilities.
- [Synapse Fire](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/synapse-fire/) - Four teenagers assemble for a night of debauchery on the Wexford coast, only for one of them to discover he has taken the wrong pill.
- [Spain’s Grand Inquisitors Send Out an ‘Indisputable Message’](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/spains-grand-inquisitors-send-out-an-indisputable-message/)
- [Cancer – A Distorted Version of Our Normal Selves](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/cancer-a-distorted-version-of-our-normal-selves/) - Drawing on personal experience of losing his mother, Frank Armstrong looks back on the history of a disease for which there is no miracle cure on the horizon.
- [Artist of the Month – Keshet Zur](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/arts/artist-of-the-month-keshet-zur/) - Keshet Zur aspired to be a photographer but felt heartbrake in the digital era, now she engages with nature and social inclusion through Expressive Art Therapy.
- [The Bestseller that never existed](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-bestseller-that-never-existed/) - One Summer night in 1956 Gene Shepherd invited his listeners to conspire with him in inventing a book which actually did not exist.
- [Anarchy Booked](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/anarchy-booked/) - A poetaster’s tribute to Geoffrey Hill’s The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin (2019).
- [Who will take on Trump? ](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/who-will-take-on-trump/) - Bull Moose reveals what could upset the sure thing of Trump being elected, having analyzed the weaknesses of the Democrat contenders.
- [Heart of the City](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/heart-of-the-city/) - New fiction from Daniel Wade involving a sordid ritual between a couple with fatal consequences.
- [Old Man Talk – ‘I used to ride young wans in here’](https://cassandravoices.com/society/old-man-talk-i-used-to-ride-young-wans-in-here/) - Maverick filmmaker Bob Quinn looks back on his eventful life in another exclusive extract from his memoir A Monk Manque.
- [Poem written in old age](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poem-written-in-old-age/) - David Hillman was born in Launceston, Cornwall and has spent many years teaching in Oxford. He considers himself an apprentice poet, now in his early seventies.
- [Almost Nobody Speaks For Musicians Anymore](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/music/almost-nobody-speaks-for-musicians-anymore/) - After twenty years as a musician with bands such as the Jimmy Cake Vincent Dermody explores the power structures underlying the music industry
- [Psychedelic Therapy – “Love is the Glue”](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/psychedelic-therapy-love-is-the-glue/) - An account of a psylocybin treatment for depression and anxiety in which the participant had the unmistakable feeling that love is the glue holding us together.
- [ACME](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/acme/) - Fiction from Lauren Leja. The caller has the most boring eyes in the world – just dots really – but his smile was so ridiculous, so dazzling like a movie star.
- [Predictions 2020: 5G Rollout, Trump Card & Reuters Report](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/predictions-2020-5g-rollout-trump-card-reuters-report/) - Five predictions for 2020: The Trump Card, an analysis of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019, CES, implications of 5G and climate change pivot.
- [Nimbus At the Green Border](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/nimbus-at-the-green-border/) - New fiction set during a peacekeeping mission by Irish troops in Cyprus. A soldier thinks back fondly on his life at home before facing the horror of war.
- [Review: Frank Connolly's A Conspiracy of Lies](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/frank-connolly-a-conspiracy-of-lies/) - Frank Connolly's A Conspiracy of Lies provides a fictional backdrop to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. The reviewer questions a lack of politics in Irish writing.
- [Poetry Recording – Paul Curran](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-paul-curran/) - New poem by Paul Curran, including a recording by the author.
- [New Music Video: Niwel Tsumbu & Éamonn Cagney 'Words of Wisdom'](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/niwel-tsumbu-words-of-wisdom/) - Congolese musician and composer talks about his new video release 'Words of Wisdom' with Éamonn Cagney.
- [Public Intellectual Series: George Orwell – A Crucial Man for Our Time](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/politics/public-intellectual-series-george-orwell-a-crucial-man-for-our-time/)
- [Overheard in the Local](https://cassandravoices.com/society/overheard-in-the-local/)
- [‘Economic theory changes one funeral at a time’ – An Interview with Warren Mosler on the True Nature of Money](https://cassandravoices.com/history/economic-theory-changes-one-funeral-at-a-time-an-interview-with-warren-mosler-on-the-true-nature-of-money/)
- [Cassandra Voices Christmas Gathering](https://cassandravoices.com/uncategorized/cassandra-voices-christmas-gathering/)
- [A Monk Manqué – ‘what a young girl in love will say to keep her man’](https://cassandravoices.com/society/a-monk-mankue-what-a-young-girl-in-love-will-say-to-keep-her-man/) - Bob Quinn's memoir continues with an account from the 1950s of teaching English in Pforzheim, Germany where a student Trudie falls for his teaching charms
- [On Procrastination](https://cassandravoices.com/society/on-procrastination/) - ‘Hey, Boy ... why not tidy the kitchen, it'll look great when it's done,’ she coos.
- [Camp Moria Lesbos – 'Hell in Europe'](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/camp-moria-lesbos-hell-in-europe/) - An account of the rapidly deteriorating conditions for refugees in Camp Moria, Lesbos with descriptions of murder and rape but also a strong sense of community.
- [Garden of Forgetting](https://cassandravoices.com/culture/literature/fiction/garden-of-forgetting/)
- [Siberian Blue](https://cassandravoices.com/society/siberian-blue/) - A childhood memoir from Prokopyevsk, Siberia inside the Soviet Union, dating from 1974, that includes accounts of attitudes towards Volga Germans.
- [Special Report: Punitive Policies Inflict Further Exclusion and Trauma on Syrian Refugee Children](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/special-report-punitive-policies-inflict-further-exclusion-and-trauma-on-syrian-refugee-children/)
- [U.K. Election 2019 – Optimism, Despair and the Fingerprints of Steve Bannon](https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/global/u-k-election-2019-optimism-despair-and-the-fingerprints-of-steve-bannon/) - Unequivocal Brexit Policy Proved Crucial to Conservative Victory. ‘Corbynism’ has shifted the mainstream of British Politics to the left, but socialism still needs a makeover.
- [Twenty Questions for Bob Quinn](https://cassandravoices.com/society/twenty-questions-for-bob-quinn/)
- [The Public Intellectual Series: Noam Chomsky](https://cassandravoices.com/history/the-public-intellectual-series-noam-chomsky/) - Account of life and times of Noam Chomsky, with reference to his work Manufacturing Consent, Public Intellectual, Media Control, Henry Kissinger, George Orwell.
- [Poetry in 2020: ‘Dream and so create’](https://cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/poetry-in-2020-dream-and-so-create/) - 'Poetry completes the eternal act of creation in its own last judgement.' Poetry Editor Edward Clarke expresses hopes for 2020 including to record entries.
- [The Slow Death of Irish Nature](https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/environment/the-slow-death-of-irish-nature/)
- [Your Fitbit Might be Walking You into Trouble](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/your-fibit-might-be-walking-you-into-trouble/)
- [Ancient Irish Sagas](https://cassandravoices.com/history/ancient-irish-sagas/)
- [The Torture of my Irish Visa Application](https://cassandravoices.com/society/law/the-torture-of-my-irish-citizenship-application/)
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