House of Women
“With a mother, a stepmother, and six women in the same house, I refused to comply. I decided the Matriarch would not have my allegiance for cursing my father. My loyalty, undeservedly, lay with him…”
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House of Women
“With a mother, a stepmother, and six women in the same house, I refused to comply. I decided the Matriarch would not have my allegiance for cursing my father. My loyalty, undeservedly, lay with him…”
Featured Artist: Manar Al Shouha
How would you define yourself as an artist? In fact I feel more like a researcher trying to find the truth about herself, her uniqueness and her art fingerprint. For me art is a kind of meditation where I reach the inner self. Each painting is not only a scene. It’s a journey through my … Read more
Artist of the Month: Bordalo II
The Dublin Red Squirrel was taken down last week. I’m not mad about that as I’m the first one to say that my work is ephemeral, just like everything in life. I also incentivate [sic] progress, rebuilding when necessary, the use of dead areas of towns to make something better, the rehabilitation of the abandoned … Read more
Last Days in RTÉ – ‘I came to kill you’
In 1967, the fidgets struck again. That was the year my mother died, rapidly following my father. I confess now that I was not obviously upset by the deaths of my parents. In the culture of my generation and class, love, certainly any public expression of it, was an embarrassment. Such namby-pamby language was confined … Read more
Can the European Project be Kept on Track?
Czech border police snoop along the rail carriage as we pass the frontier from Germany. They seem to linger outside our compartment long enough to survey the light pigmentation of the young Dutch couple and this Hiberno-Norman specimen inside, passing by without seeking identification. White skin remains a passport – carte blanche – to unspoken … Read more
How Irish Propaganda Operates III – the Inversion of the Food Pyramid
How Irish Propaganda Operates Part I (HIPO I) identifies an ‘essential constituency’ of farmers, which offer an overwhelmingly preponderance of their support to representatives of the political duopoly in rural constituencies. Upsetting this cohort frays a brittle alliance maintaining the dominant consensus of steady economic growth, and rising rents. As a result the media and … Read more
Spain on Trial
Writing in The Observer in 1961, Peter Benenson lamented that ‘in Spain, students who circulate leaflets calling for the right to hold discussions on current affairs are charged with ‘military rebellion’.’ So what? You may ask yourself – that was 57 years ago under the Franco dictatorship. But that’s the point: six decades later in … Read more
