Looking for Scraps
Rushing down the lane to the beach, I race in the direction of clarity; the…
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Fiction Reader’s Block
We all see things with different eyes and it gets you nowhere hoping that one…
Common Concerns: John Clare & Other Ghosts
There’s a strangeness to singing in a language you don’t understand, akin, perhaps, to the…
Cassandra Voices Podcast: Loafing Hero
In our latest podcast Ben Pantrey interviews former musician of the month Bartholomew Ryan in…
On the Nature of Evil
I met Vladimir Putin once. Or, at least, I was in the same room as…
Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob
In a quiet room, two men smoke hashish and discuss the inevitability of the Apocalypse.…
Review: Richard Kearney’s Touch
Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense is a recently published work by Irish philosopher and…
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
I have a mild neurosis, situated in Utopian wish-fulfillment, of the ideal that I often…
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…