Kneecap – Don’t Look Back in Ongar
Out with the old, in with the new. In the same month that Don’t Look…
Browsing: Food
Rothko in Paris
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It’s very tiny –…
Review: Trump Rant by Chris Agee
“Trump Inhabits Trumpistan”, writes Chris Agee in his rampaging poetic satire, Trump Rant: “Trump Is…
Review: Father, Son and Brother Ghost
Few writers can do grief and loss like John MacKenna. He is, without question, the…
Ireland Urgently Requires a Covid Inquiry
It should be a source of embarrassment that in Ireland we still have had no…
ENOUGH! Confronting Woody Allen
These are extraordinary times. Last month serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein, had his 23-year sentence…
LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason II
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of an extended essay by Irish artist Terence…
Podcast: A Flawed Consensus: COVID-19 in Africa
Bonus Episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep8-bonus-flawed-103879168 Or via apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cassandra-voices-podcast/id1728086643 In our latest Podcast Frank Armstrong…
LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason I
It is a notable feature of the prevailing world order that citizens of Western states,…
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…
Freebirthing in Ireland
It’s Mother’s Day morning and I am on the brink. Desperate, determined, exhausted and certain…
Applying Hitchens’s Razor: Jim Sheridan and Ian Bailey
Jim Sheridan is a significant figure in the international film industry because of his creativity…
Anatomy of Disgust – Northern Irish Style
This piece is not intended to provoke. It is more a look at the way…
Feathers for Rosa – a tribute to Rosa Luxemburg
To celebrate International Women’s Week, The New Theatre is presenting ‘Feathers for Rosa’ by Noël…
A Whistleblower’s Motive
In a seminal scene at the end of the film Joker (2019) the eponymous character,…
Podcast: Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied! With guest Patrick Cockburn
The first Cassandra Voices Podcast, hosted by Luke Sheahan, features a long form interview with…
The Emerald Delusion
Let no feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause of, or men of, the…
White Christmas
Editor’s Note: Readers of a sensitive disposition may find aspects of this account of drug-taking…
False Prophecy
Imaginative fiction offers invaluable insights into everything from national characters to institutional malaise and pathological…
Poem – ‘Psalm’
Psalm The light and the wind on the water these wild winter days are breath…