Building the Book: Cassandra Voices Volume I
‘This is madness’, two friends chimed one night upon hearing I planned to bring out…
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A Monk Manqué
PROLOGUE ‘The reverend Judge leaned over and addressed the defendant’ ‘I have taken your spotless…
How Irish Propaganda Operates
THE LONG READ: Ireland is neither a totalitarian state, nor even a dictatorship. Nonetheless, the…
Leo-Liberal
Leo Varadkar dismisses his father Ashok’s claim to be a socialist, which came in an interview…
The Key Change to Fix the Irish Constitution
The Harp needs more than tuning. The single most important and useful change we should…
Inside the Heartland of Italy’s La Lega
At the age of sixteen, in 2001, I took a job in a small factory…
Drive Time: The Irish Media’s Message
Tune into any Irish radio station, and it is hard to escape the constant flogging…
Leopold Bloom and the Art of Loafing
What does it mean to be a loafer? Loafing as an activity has always existed.…
LA RÉSISTANCE
Missiles flashed, and it was beautiful— flares in the darkness of a fallen world where…
Against the Muses: Dragana Jurišić
I first came across Dragana Jurišić’s work in the National Gallery of Ireland, when her…
In the Eye of the Storm
Breathe. Focus. It’s the biggest rapid I’ve ever run.