A Conversation with Carlo Gébler
Carlo Gébler’s work spans fiction, nonfiction, memoir, history, theatre, and film. Born in Dublin in…
Browsing: Society & Culture
Hooligans, Thugs and Gangsters
Our world, especially the United States, is now becoming a Gangster Enterprise where brutality…
Distortions Of Language
What tangled web we weave when our intention is to deceive? Sir Walter Scott…
Pathfinder: Manchán Magan
I will follow these gallant heroes beneath the clay The warriors my ancestors served…
Podcast: “He Bought Plato” a conversation with John Dillon
John Dillon, Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin, is an Irish classicist…
On Rhetoric
What makes for fine rhetoric in an age of disinformation? Clearly, this is distinct from…
Zambia: Literature through English
I spent a number of years in Zambia, in the early seventies, the mid-seventies and…
Eastern European Poetry in a Time of Trauma
I have been working in education for the last twenty-three years, and been publishing books…
Podcast: The Ghosts of Monto: Terry Fagan on 1950s Dublin
Terry Fagan is a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin’s North Inner City.…
Bullying: It’s You, Not Me
Bullies can take many shapes, forms, and disguises. It seems a daily occurrence that can…
Teenage Sex for Meth
Aged sixteen, I started trading sex for meth. There was no discussion about this with…
The Release of Love
Todo lo que vemos o nos parece, no es sino un ensueño en un ensueño!…
The Comics of Yesteryear
Most people whose Irish childhood was spent between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s wistfully remember the…
Ностальгия
‘I confess I do not believe in time.’ Vladimir Nabokov On a hostel rooftop in…
Review: The Occupant by Jennifer Maier
How would you feel upon discovering the objects of your daily, habitual use—ordinary objects of…
The Inscrutable Mr. Scruton
At the end of Roger Scruton’s short book On Hunting, an out-of-print memoir about the…
Electronic Music: ‘stepping into a space of anticipation’
I play electronic music, experimental ambient sets or hypnotic techno sets. It’s exciting to begin…
Who Let the Dogs Out? A Review of Babygirl
If you count my two unsuccessful (all cough no high) undergraduate attempts to smoke weed…
Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation
Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel Annihilation offers a lengthy (526-page) disquisition on the journey to death,…
Public Intellectuals: Fyodor Dostoevsky
In an age of unrestrained Russian-bashing, the figure of Fyodor Dostoevsky might seem a provocative…