On (the) Money
If you follow me baby I’ll turn your money green I show you more money…
If you follow me baby I’ll turn your money green I show you more money…
Patrick Freyne’s satirical 2020 Irish Times article ‘It is now late-period Dermot Bannon. He is…
Rushing down the lane to the beach, I race in the direction of clarity; the…
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At a recent debate organised by the English-Speaking Union (ESU) at its HQ, Dartmouth House…
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Unaware of the roaring cataract ahead, a small boy splashes in the dark river named…
Often overshadowed by his elder, Nobel laureate, brother W.B., Jack Butler Yeats occupies an exalted…
I have a mild neurosis, situated in Utopian wish-fulfillment, of the ideal that I often…
For Christmas two years ago, my mother bought me a copy of Sally Rooney’s novel…
Whenever I think about Literature I think about Love. Both are written with big Ls.…