Our Barmy Bread
The appeal of exotic cuisines and esoteric diets has done little to diminish bread’s status…
Browsing: Society & Culture
J. G. Ballard: Foreshadowing Collapse
The fusion of mood and setting, the mapping of a landscape of the troubled mind…
Dublin’s Forty Foot over Fourteen Years
For the past fourteen years I have been a daily swimmer at the Forty Foot…
The Ballad of Sadie Bramwell
This was back in the days when boys were still called Osmond or Norris, and…
Meeting Ingmar Bergman
I had second thoughts about boarding a plane to Stockholm to meet Ingmar Bergman twenty-four…
The Algorithm of Evil
The story of subliminal messaging follows an interesting evolution, one infrequently told about a technique…
A Curious Irish Disregard for Historic Buildings
Under normal circumstances tourists flock to Ireland for its rich cultural inheritance and traditions. Indeed…
Looking Back on Lockdown
With lockdown actively under consideration in some European states once again, including Ireland, we look…
‘If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere’
2019 was a great year for me, my first book was published and had a…
Freedom’s Just Another Word
I left a depressed New York city following the surprise election of Donald Trump in…
Photo Desk: Black Lives Matter Sligo Protest June 5th 2020
Around 200 people gathered in front of Sligo City Hall this Friday afternoon. The majority…
Photo Essay: Mallorca after the Pandemic
The resorts of Magaluf, Palmanova and Santa Ponça on the southwest coast of Mallorca are…
Gone
Whenever I go back to Dublin, I wonder where it’s all gone. I usually think…
Caroline Flack and the Painful Lessons of Grief
Whenever a celebrity dies of natural causes people respond in unified mourning. If a celebrity…