Jack B. Yeats: Painting and Memory
Often overshadowed by his elder, Nobel laureate, brother W.B., Jack Butler Yeats occupies an exalted…
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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
I have a mild neurosis, situated in Utopian wish-fulfillment, of the ideal that I often…
Where is Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World?
For Christmas two years ago, my mother bought me a copy of Sally Rooney’s novel…
Love and Literature in Numbers
Whenever I think about Literature I think about Love. Both are written with big Ls.…
Cuban Love Songs Launch
In a rousing introductory speech, retired diplomat Philip McDonagh described the publication of Cuban Love…
Ireland: The Lipsticked Pig
On February 15th, 2021, John Buckley McQuaid, released an album of original songs about Ireland,…
Shakespeare’s Wisdom in Troubled Times
As a barrister I am given to quoting from Shakespeare’s plays in closing speeches. This…
Review: Strumpet City
Picture the scene: the small backyard of a tiny working-class pub in Belfast at around…
Literature: Ireland’s Last Minotaur
In Ireland, North and South, the Arts Sector, currently, is a sinecure. Those middle-class mentalities…
A Grá for the Language
An grá is an gráin, say these two words out loud, say them out loud…
Fleeing Father
If stylistically Francesca Banciu’s latest novel translated into English Fleeing Father (Vatherflucht) is a much…
Czech Intellectuals: Kafka and Kundera
I was briefly a Professor of Law and International Relations at the Anglo-American University in…
The Literary ‘Outsider’ Novel
Does an age of frenetic online activity afford time for literary masterpieces, especially Outsider Novels,…
Our Barmy Bread
The appeal of exotic cuisines and esoteric diets has done little to diminish bread’s status…
Restoring Wild Literature
L’histoire naturelle, ce n’est rien autre que la nomination du visible. Michel Foucault – Les…
Flann O’Brien Labs Assess the €9 Lunch
Breaking news from The Kimmage Chronicle: everything you need to know about live music and…
The Mythology of Blood
In this second article Lorcan Mac Mathuna discusses his An Bhuatais & The Meaning of…
Thrills & Difficulties: A Marxist Poet in Ireland
for Susan Millar DuMars More than a quarter of a century ago a man-child called…
The Other Great Troubadour
Unlike Bob Dylan who is still actively making music, Leonard Cohen has not released a…
Featured Artist Michal Greenboim
Growing up in a small rural town in Israel, Pardes Hanna, has shaped me into…