Theocracy – the Emigrant’s Artist
Sé Merry Doyle’s latest documentary, Theocracy – the Emigrant’s Artist, serves as an excellent introduction…
Browsing: Food
Distortions Of Language
What tangled web we weave when our intention is to deceive? Sir Walter Scott…
Pathfinder: Manchán Magan
I will follow these gallant heroes beneath the clay The warriors my ancestors served…
Manchurian Monkeys
Acts of commission – such as an amputation of the wrong leg or a dose…
Podcast: “He Bought Plato” a conversation with John Dillon
John Dillon, Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin, is an Irish classicist…
The Birth of a Doctor
The title of this article may seem somewhat prosaic, but given that it really is…
On Rhetoric
What makes for fine rhetoric in an age of disinformation? Clearly, this is distinct from…
Zambia: Literature through English
I spent a number of years in Zambia, in the early seventies, the mid-seventies and…
Eastern European Poetry in a Time of Trauma
I have been working in education for the last twenty-three years, and been publishing books…
Podcast: The Ghosts of Monto: Terry Fagan on 1950s Dublin
Terry Fagan is a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin’s North Inner City.…
Bullying: It’s You, Not Me
Bullies can take many shapes, forms, and disguises. It seems a daily occurrence that can…
Covid-19 Vaccines: Informed Consent?
What if I told you that I had a new product – never before used…
Teenage Sex for Meth
Aged sixteen, I started trading sex for meth. There was no discussion about this with…
The Release of Love
Todo lo que vemos o nos parece, no es sino un ensueño en un ensueño!…
The Comics of Yesteryear
Most people whose Irish childhood was spent between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s wistfully remember the…
The Carbon Tax Scapegoat
We are regularly presented with press releases from government departments that express empathy for those…
Emotional Regimes of the Pandemic
This Mortal Coil The Covid pandemic brought a public health emergency, political and legal challenges,…
Ностальгия
‘I confess I do not believe in time.’ Vladimir Nabokov On a hostel rooftop in…
We Must Begin with the Land
Review: We Must Begin with the Land: Seeking Abundance and Liberation through Social Ecology by…
Does Dublin Require 3 Railway Systems?
The future of urban transport policy lies not in expansion but in the intelligent use…