Archiving the Recent Past: the Loopline Collection
In 2015, documentary filmmaker and Director of Loopline Film, Sé Merry Doyle, and the Irish…
Browsing: 2019July
Musician of the Month: Kiruu
Music is like a home. A country. A tribe. A religion or faith. You can’t…
Irish Media’s Business Model Brings Climate Inaction
Following a global trend since the arrival of the Internet, mainstream Irish media, including the…
Section 8
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions…
Culchies – An Excerpt from ‘A Monk Manqué’
In the mid-1990s Seosamh O Cuaig and I were filming a programme for TG4 in…
Review: Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
In the ferry terminal of Algeciras, on Spain’s southern coast, two middle-aged gangsters from Cork…
Albert Camus and the Decline of the Public Intellectual
But again, and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares…
Dubliners Deserve Better Than Bus Connects
Under normal circumstances, developing a bus network should confer great benefits on a city: it…
Bull Moose: Talking to the Person Seated Next to You
Alternative Realities… Among the least discussed, but perhaps most important influence of the Digital Age…
Compost Hill
Few among the crowds walking down Thomas Street will know there is a hidden garden…
All Cassandras Parties
In this benighted ‘Republic,’ spectral beggars haunt the streets of Dublin, soup kitchens multiply, and…
The New Experiment in Gaeltacht Education
In 2016 the Department of Education and Skill’s outlined its latest scheme for Gaeltacht (designated…
Occupied Territories Bill: Government Defies Dáil Majority Leaving the Jaber Family to their Fate
On a crisp, sunny morning in Hebron in January of this year my friend Atta…
Artist of the Month: Gerard Dowling
What one leaves behind. I guess a lot of stuff. If over the last few…
Musician of the Month: Fin Divilly
Over seven years ago, I moved to an old house on Liffey Street having lived…
Visita de obra
No soy yo quien atraviesa estos valles prendidos de ocres, ni este el tren que…
Carbon Negative
One fine day all this will burn Strange but true The blue woods of Oregon…
You and Yours
It’s only a day’s walk north from Sana’a to Al Madid, in the province of…
No Comment: Istanbul Election Week
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