Government Precautions: An Unethical Human Experiment
Sensory Deprivation It’s been difficult finding the words to express my worsening mood and deepening…
Browsing: Society & Culture
B9: Life in a Louisiana Care Home’s Covid-19 Cluster
A New Roommate Even before the sheriff issued his notice that you had to be…
Sé Merry Doyle: James Joyce – Reluctant Groom
Andrea Reynell caught up with renowned documentary filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle to discuss his new…
Tea for Two
Delighted, I hold in my hand, one of only three known photographs of meself as…
Break an Exit V – The Arson Bells
[email protected] Mumruinho has made it. My sister managed to sneak a pack of menthols into…
Where have all the Lefties Gone?
Revolution? Really! Lately there seems to be something very right-wing about being on the ‘Left’.…
Freedom’s Just Another Word
I left a depressed New York city following the surprise election of Donald Trump in…
Covid-19: are we really all in this together?
Introduction What I don’t find nice, and I really don’t need, is people clapping. I…
Happy Birthday Mr Yeats
In Ireland literary deities hover over us like U.S. Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore. It…
Photo Desk: Black Lives Matter Sligo Protest June 5th 2020
Around 200 people gathered in front of Sligo City Hall this Friday afternoon. The majority…
Break an Exit IV: The Phsylicon Valley
Sea waves come and go, but the Ocean stays. Zen Haiku Truth is a metaphor…
Photo Essay: Mallorca after the Pandemic
The resorts of Magaluf, Palmanova and Santa Ponça on the southwest coast of Mallorca are…
I Do Not Consent
I didn’t particularly want to write this article. I didn’t want to get involved in…
Shane MacGowan and ‘the Riddle of Ballinalee’ in Bob Dylan’s ‘I Contain Multitudes’
At Cassandra Voices we uncover stories behind stories. Just occasionally these accounts reach the mainstream.…
Leaving Certificate Under Lockdown
Today is a better day, with the roof of my home intact and my family…
Bob Dylan’s New Song and Ballinalee County Longford
Butterflies continue to fly from septuagenarian Bob Dylan’s cocoon. Last week the Bard of Duluth released…
Porto Under Lockdown
Antiga, Mui Nobre, Sempre Leal e Invicta, the city of Porto, a place so magical,…
A Voice from the Cocoon
Here’s Mr Pip, aged parent”, said Wemmick, and I wish you could hear his…
Never Such a Meal
Years ago, arriving late one evening in Ostende by train – always my favourite means…