Palestine – To Exist is to Resist
I have just returned from Hebron in the West Bank, a city where nearly sixty…
Browsing: 2019May
Bull Moose: Recalling Roe v. Wade in the face of Alabama’s ‘Human Protection Act’
Earlier this month Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law ‘The Alabama Human Protection Act’…
Brown Tide: Five Signs the Irish Government Could Not Give a Shit about the Environment
Recent Local and European elections witnessed an electoral Green Tide, especially in Dublin, where Ciaran…
White American Pathology
We don’t discuss white America’s common pathology. What we’ve begun, within limits, are discussions on…
When Home is an Untouchable Beloved
The cruellest aspect of protracted displacement is a descent into the realms of collective forgetfulness,…
A User’s Guide to ‘Sail-Rail’ with Bicycle and Opportunities on the Dublin-London Route
Sail-Rail passage between Dublin and London currently takes about eight hours – but could be…
Spain’s Grand Inquisitors Send Out an ‘Indisputable Message’
Repost… The year is 1500 and Jesus Christ returns – to the city of Seville…
Waiting for Colonel Ghaddafi
I was pretty sure I was going to die, sooner rather than later, one midsummer’s…
A Poor Relation’s Rich Associations
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence,…
Gluttony, Gastronomy, and the Origins of ‘French’ Food
As French President, François Mitterrand enjoyed his fair share of sumptuous feasts in the haute…
Freedom of Speech in the Facebook Age
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently called for more stringent Internet privacy and election laws saying,…
Cassandra’s Cultural Roundabout – May, 2019
Cassandra’s Cultural Roundabout is a light-hearted take on the cultural scene of Dublin and beyond,…
The Secret Model – Subtle Complaints
Entering the dragon’s den I arrive twenty minutes late for a casting, but it doesn’t…
‘Wooden Legs on Hens’ – The Ongoing Failure of the Restoration of the Irish Language
Last January, the Minister for Education, Joe McHugh, invited views from the public on the…
HEY POCKY WAY
In the year of our Lord 2019, what remained engrained was an émigré from the…
The Wrong End of Gun Karma
In the time it took him to close the three yards of separation between us,…
The Shadow of Italian Justice
Note: reposted from March, 2018. Seattle woman Amanda Knox was put on trial in 2007…