The Key Change to Fix the Irish Constitution
The Harp needs more than tuning. The single most important and useful change we should…
Browsing: 2018July
Steve Bannon’s Tour de Farce
Donald Trump’s former confidante Steve Bannon has been on a latter-day American Grand Tour around…
Sunset Over a Seizing Civilisation
This piece came from a little sound I heard in my head, an atmosphere, which…
A Sanctuary away from Ireland’s Cow Herds
W.B. Yeats’s poem, ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ retains an appeal more than a century…
Rimbaud in the Emergency Room
Interstitial space: a space between structures or objects, i.e the contiguous fluid-filled space existing between…
Inside the Heartland of Italy’s La Lega
At the age of sixteen, in 2001, I took a job in a small factory…
World Cup Fans Conquer Russia
How to fathom the phenomenon of ‘fandom’? Certainly it is one of the most familiar,…
If on a Winter’s Night a Lithuanian Spoke with Leo
The great Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities imagines a conversation between the Mongolian emperor Kubla…
RTÉ Says: ‘Stars’ In Their Own Cars
One trail runs dry, but a scent hangs in the air. Pursuant to Stephen Court’s…
Your Fitbit Might be Walking You into Trouble
In the previous edition of Cassandra Voices Eoin Tierney explored the extent to which data…
The Origins of Poetic Creation
We can only imagine how poetry entered human consciousness. I intuit that its emergence was…
My Fellow Americans – A Short Story
When I first moved to Dublin, I thought there were a lot of out-of-shape athletes…
Gitanjali – after Rabindranath Tagore
I am made endless for your pleasure Again and again emptied and filled A frail…
Single Inferiority Complex
So you’re single. At least if you’re reading this, there is a good chance you…
Displaced – Abdalla Al Omari
All our biographies, if they went back far enough, would begin by explaining how our…