Break an Exit IV: The Phsylicon Valley
Sea waves come and go, but the Ocean stays. Zen Haiku Truth is a metaphor…
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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…
Review Bob Dylan’s – ‘Murder Most Foul’
I have been to four of Bob Dylan’s concerts in various places around the world,…
Documentary – Patrick Scott: Golden Boy
Sucked in by day-to-day dramas, or absorbed by the most closely studied pandemic in the…
A Rat on the Wall
1960s Belfast Sat in silence on the bottom step, with my knees tucked under my…
‘Alive Alive O’ Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle
Sé Merry Doyle’s 2001 documentary film, ‘Alive Alive O – A Requiem For Dublin’ chronicles…
Gone
Whenever I go back to Dublin, I wonder where it’s all gone. I usually think…
Break an Exit III: My reflection, your abhorrence
ceremony I did make amends with Mumruinho during the ceremony. I did cry rivers of…
Free Documentary – ‘Patrick Kavanagh -No Man’s Fool’
In association with The Loopline Collection, we are introducing a free documentary film every week…
International Women’s Day: WomenXBorders
This year marks the 109th International Women’s Day. The now universally recognized date first bore…
Keep Spinning until you Drop
Never boast to your children that you had seventeen occupations before your twenty-fifth birthday. I…
Meeting Samuel Beckett’s Genius in Person and his Plays
Undeniably, Ireland has produced some of the finest creative writers in the history of the…
Caroline Flack and the Painful Lessons of Grief
Whenever a celebrity dies of natural causes people respond in unified mourning. If a celebrity…