Fear, Class, and Universal Basic Income
On the April 13 2024, a man stabbed several people in a shopping centre in…
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Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System Part 1
I have just finished representing a client in a murder case and have plenty to…
A Rainy Night in Saifi – Luke Sheehan and Nadim Shehadi in conversation
What is a ‘real country’? For the Irish, living as we do on a divided…
Applying Hitchens’s Razor: Jim Sheridan and Ian Bailey
Jim Sheridan is a significant figure in the international film industry because of his creativity…
Putin’s Priorities: Toilets, Gay Pride and WWIII
In mid-January, St. Petersburg’s governor, Alexander Beglov, stated in his blog that Russian soldiers returning…
Ivor Browne R.I.P
It’s hard for those of us who work in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy to…
Responsible Business
The ten principles of the U.N. Global Compact, formed in 2000, sought to realign business…
Fine Dining in Ireland During WWII
Dublin was the second city of the British Empire until end of the eighteenth century.…
Late Art and Hackney Diamonds
The theme of ‘late art’ was recently explored by the art historian Carel Blotkamp in…
The Restaurant Experience
The anthropologist Jack Goody pours scorn on modern dining habits. Solitary consumption he says reverses…
Hitching the Plough to the Stars
Paul O’Brien’s biography, Sean O’Casey, Political Activist and Writer (Cork University Press) is a timely…
Julian Lloyd: Pure Luck and Happenstance
Julian Lloyd’s iconic portrait of Nick Drake now forms part of the U.K.’s National Portrait…
Unmasking the Tawdry Yarns
In the essential Boomer text, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance one of the…
Michel Houllebecq and the End of History
Inspired by Michel Houllebecq’s novel Atomised (1998), Ben Pantrey considers the endurance of the Christian…
Housing: Vacancy and Dereliction
In 1841 the population of county Leitrim stood at 155,297. By 1901, however, it had…
Covid-19 in Ireland: Why and How?
Did you a struggle to understand and navigate your way through events surrounding our response…
Voyaging the Kerribrasilian Sea
this is tropical truth this is celtic truth this is Hy Brasil in the Kerribrasilian…
Dust in your Eyes: War and its Image
The bomb might be dropped any time soon now, apparently. The end of all ends,…
Donal Fallon’s Burning Question
Deities or daimons held strong associations with the cities of Classical Rome and Greece, projecting…
Guglielmo Marconi’s Irish Connections
The life of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, has been celebrated on two primary occasions in…