David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
I have a mild neurosis, situated in Utopian wish-fulfillment, of the ideal that I often…
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Where is Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World?
For Christmas two years ago, my mother bought me a copy of Sally Rooney’s novel…
Love and Literature in Numbers
Whenever I think about Literature I think about Love. Both are written with big Ls.…
Ireland: The Lipsticked Pig
On February 15th, 2021, John Buckley McQuaid, released an album of original songs about Ireland,…
Review: Strumpet City
Picture the scene: the small backyard of a tiny working-class pub in Belfast at around…
Literature: Ireland’s Last Minotaur
In Ireland, North and South, the Arts Sector, currently, is a sinecure. Those middle-class mentalities…
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,…
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…
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…
Love Denied: Baudelaire’s Une Charogne
Une Charogne (1859) is among the most important poems of the 19th century, containing all…
Reform or we are Scrooged
Often dismissed as ‘worthy’, but perhaps overly wordy, products of the nineteenth century, the novels…
Aye, Dead On
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. Aeschylus…