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.…
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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…
Twenty Questions for Bob Quinn
We sent twenty questions to Maverick film maker Bob Quinn who published ten excerpts of…
Helping Artists at Risk – Evgeny Shtorn in conversation with Mary Ann DeVlieg
Mary Ann DeVlieg is an internationally experienced consultant, facilitator and trainer with a background in…
Cassandra Voices Christmas Gathering
The CASSANDRA VOICES MAGAZINE CHRISTMAS GATHERING will take place at TAILORS’ HALL, Back Lane, Dublin…
Lament for Áirt Uí Laoire
In August of 1969 I was driving across Ireland with the late Bearnard Ó Riain,…
What Separates us from Monsters? Dylan Tighe’s Redubbing of Pasolini’s Saló
Before even taking my seat, three times I was warned of the ‘gory content’ in…
V.I.P.
Pint-sized, the pub was a little too far off from Glendalough for foreigners to find.…
Last Days in RTÉ – ‘I have come to kill you’
Another extract from Bob Quinn’s unpublishable (or unpublished) memoir – A Monk Manqué. In 1967,…
Mould Into Shape
It has the power to last for a thousand years, but is often only used…
Archiving the Recent Past: the Loopline Collection
In 2015, documentary filmmaker and Director of Loopline Film, Sé Merry Doyle, and the Irish…
Review: Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
In the ferry terminal of Algeciras, on Spain’s southern coast, two middle-aged gangsters from Cork…