Literature: Ireland’s Last Minotaur
In Ireland, North and South, the Arts Sector, currently, is a sinecure. Those middle-class mentalities…
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A Grá for the Language
An grá is an gráin, say these two words out loud, say them out loud…
Fleeing Father
If stylistically Francesca Banciu’s latest novel translated into English Fleeing Father (Vatherflucht) is a much…
Czech Intellectuals: Kafka and Kundera
I was briefly a Professor of Law and International Relations at the Anglo-American University in…
The Literary ‘Outsider’ Novel
Does an age of frenetic online activity afford time for literary masterpieces, especially Outsider Novels,…
Our Barmy Bread
The appeal of exotic cuisines and esoteric diets has done little to diminish bread’s status…
Restoring Wild Literature
L’histoire naturelle, ce n’est rien autre que la nomination du visible. Michel Foucault – Les…
Flann O’Brien Labs Assess the €9 Lunch
Breaking news from The Kimmage Chronicle: everything you need to know about live music and…
The Mythology of Blood
In this second article Lorcan Mac Mathuna discusses his An Bhuatais & The Meaning of…
Thrills & Difficulties: A Marxist Poet in Ireland
for Susan Millar DuMars More than a quarter of a century ago a man-child called…
The Other Great Troubadour
Unlike Bob Dylan who is still actively making music, Leonard Cohen has not released a…
Crappy Sleeper
I have a story for all kinds of weird sleep-related shenanigans. Walking, talking, singing, dancing,…
Back in the DDR
It’s like living in East Germany Nowhere let open at night Incarcerated by mediocrity Mad…
The Classical World in Video Games
Hollywood has a long history of portraying the Classical world in film, often with a…
The Dogs and Deer with Fionn mac Cumhaill
We’ve lost Fionn and his Fianna, the stories that were told for hundreds, thousands of…
J. G. Ballard: Foreshadowing Collapse
The fusion of mood and setting, the mapping of a landscape of the troubled mind…
Dublin’s Forty Foot over Fourteen Years
For the past fourteen years I have been a daily swimmer at the Forty Foot…
Mother and Baby Home ‘Whitewash’ Compounds Victims’ Torture
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious…