ENOUGH! Confronting Woody Allen
These are extraordinary times. Last month serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein, had his 23-year sentence…
Browsing: Society & Culture
LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason II
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of an extended essay by Irish artist Terence…
Podcast: A Flawed Consensus: COVID-19 in Africa
Bonus Episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep8-bonus-flawed-103879168 Or via apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cassandra-voices-podcast/id1728086643 In our latest Podcast Frank Armstrong…
LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason I
It is a notable feature of the prevailing world order that citizens of Western states,…
Freebirthing in Ireland
It’s Mother’s Day morning and I am on the brink. Desperate, determined, exhausted and certain…
A Whistleblower’s Motive
In a seminal scene at the end of the film Joker (2019) the eponymous character,…
Podcast: Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied! With guest Patrick Cockburn
The first Cassandra Voices Podcast, hosted by Luke Sheahan, features a long form interview with…
White Christmas
Editor’s Note: Readers of a sensitive disposition may find aspects of this account of drug-taking…
False Prophecy
Imaginative fiction offers invaluable insights into everything from national characters to institutional malaise and pathological…
The Passing of Shane MacGowan
I sat for a while by the gap in the wall Found a rusty tin…
Classic Paddies
The music was the code. It was the transliteration of the style. It was not…
Public Intellectuals: Thomas Mann
Born in 1875, like many in his era Thomas Mann was initially a Great German…
Ten Faery Tales for Our Time
This article is dedicated to Patrick Healy. The Irish people have a long-standing relationship with…
Liking Lockdown
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.…
The Myth of the Spiritual Contract
According to Western medical science I suffer from a condition called depression. And from my…
Kevin Higgins: 1967-2023
According to the recently deceased Kevin Higgins: ‘Poets may be divided into three types: those…
Welcome to the Jungle
Not since Byron awoke one morning to find himself famous has there been such an…
Open Mics or Open Micks?
I immediately twitch with an almost intolerable discomfort when I hear the words freedom and…
Classic Paddies
The music was the code. It was the transliteration of the style. It was not…
Niall McDevitt (1967-2022)
The London-based Irish Poet, Art-Activist, Musician and Psychogeographer, Niall McDeviit died at his home in…