The Harp needs more than tuning. The single most important and useful change we should make to our Constitution is to remove the first paragraph…
Posts tagged as “2018July”
Donald Trump’s former confidante Steve Bannon has been on a latter-day American Grand Tour around Europe. But rather than making his peace ‘With learned Italian…
This piece came from a little sound I heard in my head, an atmosphere, which I wanted to explore. First, I made myself a soundbed…
W.B. Yeats’s poem, ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ retains an appeal more than a century after its publication in 1899. Musicians in particular – from…
Interstitial space: a space between structures or objects, i.e the contiguous fluid-filled space existing between the skin and body organs. ******* It is difficult to…
At the age of sixteen, in 2001, I took a job in a small factory which built appliances in Cardano al Campo, near Milan’s Malpensa…
How to fathom the phenomenon of ‘fandom’? Certainly it is one of the most familiar, most recognisable, and common, of personality traits – yet oddly,…
The great Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities imagines a conversation between the Mongolian emperor Kubla Khan and the legendary traveller Marco Polo. Kubla Khan asks…
In the previous edition of Cassandra Voices Eoin Tierney explored the extent to which data is routinely harvested in a variety of ways, some of…
We can only imagine how poetry entered human consciousness. I intuit that its emergence was linked to the first use of fire, that most seminal…
When I first moved to Dublin, I thought there were a lot of out-of-shape athletes living in the city. I later learned that my misconception…
95 While someone exhorts us In song to sing to God, I've looked askance and asked, is he Among us here or not? And found…
I am made endless for your pleasure Again and again emptied and filled A frail vessel ever with fresh life And melodies eternally new Breathed…
So you’re single. At least if you’re reading this, there is a good chance you are. Do you view being single positively or negatively? What…
All our biographies, if they went back far enough, would begin by explaining how our ancestors came to be more or less enslaved, and to…
RTÉ Says: ‘Stars’ In Their Own Cars
One trail runs dry, but a scent hangs in the air. Pursuant to Stephen Court’s Drive Time article for Cassandra Voices deconstructing the Irish media’s…