
Ciaran Carson: The Dichotomy of Being
Belfast writer, and poet, Ciaran Carson carried a black flute with silver keys on its…
Belfast writer, and poet, Ciaran Carson carried a black flute with silver keys on its…
This article is dedicated to Patrick Healy. The Irish people have a long-standing relationship with…
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.…
In the insular, it felt like it at times, enforced statelet of Northern Ireland, sexual…
Julian Lloyd’s iconic portrait of Nick Drake now forms part of the U.K.’s National Portrait…
The colourful humourist and English poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) is the subject of…
Covid is a nightmare from which we are still trying to awake. But whether the…
According to Western medical science I suffer from a condition called depression. And from my…
Inspired by Michel Houllebecq’s novel Atomised (1998), Ben Pantrey considers the endurance of the Christian…
When, after a long siege, the Greeks breach the defences of Troy, Aeneas must flee.…
This article has been gestating for some time. I must admit to a long-standing loathing…
Such sad news. Another member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement is gone. Not just…
Gary Farrelly is an Irish visual and performance artist based in Brussels. Together with his…
A new book COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Bloomsbury,…
In a recent article Frank Armstrong traces the historic decline in the population of Leitrim,…
I would imagine I am no different to many people in that I suffer from…
Have you ever experienced that emptiness, that deep silence, that infinite ignorance following trauma? Well,…
According to the recently deceased Kevin Higgins: ‘Poets may be divided into three types: those…
Not since Byron awoke one morning to find himself famous has there been such an…
I immediately twitch with an almost intolerable discomfort when I hear the words freedom and…