Back in the DDR
It’s like living in East Germany Nowhere let open at night Incarcerated by mediocrity Mad…
Browsing: Culture
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…
Finding Alexandr(i)a: : a Creative Journey through Plutarch, Cavafy, Leonard Cohen and Laura Marling
Around the beginning of the second century AD, the Greek writer Plutarch unknowingly created the…
Cuba Libre! At Home with Ronan Sheehan
Last week Andrea Reynell met renowned Irish man-of-letters Ronan Sheehan in his Dublin home. They…
Sé Merry Doyle: James Joyce – Reluctant Groom
Andrea Reynell caught up with renowned documentary filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle to discuss his new…
Happy Birthday Mr Yeats
In Ireland literary deities hover over us like U.S. Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore. It…
Shane MacGowan and ‘the Riddle of Ballinalee’ in Bob Dylan’s ‘I Contain Multitudes’
At Cassandra Voices we uncover stories behind stories. Just occasionally these accounts reach the mainstream.…
Bob Dylan’s New Song and Ballinalee County Longford
Butterflies continue to fly from septuagenarian Bob Dylan’s cocoon. Last week the Bard of Duluth released…
Review Bob Dylan’s – ‘Murder Most Foul’
I have been to four of Bob Dylan’s concerts in various places around the world,…
Documentary – Patrick Scott: Golden Boy
Sucked in by day-to-day dramas, or absorbed by the most closely studied pandemic in the…
‘Alive Alive O’ Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle
Sé Merry Doyle’s 2001 documentary film, ‘Alive Alive O – A Requiem For Dublin’ chronicles…
Free Documentary – ‘Patrick Kavanagh -No Man’s Fool’
In association with The Loopline Collection, we are introducing a free documentary film every week…
Meeting Samuel Beckett’s Genius in Person and his Plays
Undeniably, Ireland has produced some of the finest creative writers in the history of the…
Review: Frank Connolly’s A Conspiracy of Lies
Dublin and Monaghan people remember where they were on the 17th May 1974, the day…
New Music Video: Niwel Tsumbu & Éamonn Cagney ‘Words of Wisdom’
Congolese composer, guitarist, and singer Niwel Tsumbu has just released a video for ‘Words of…
Poetry in 2020: ‘Dream and so create’
At the end of 2019, I wrote: In these times it is perhaps inevitable that…