Ciaran Carson: The Dichotomy of Being
Belfast writer, and poet, Ciaran Carson carried a black flute with silver keys on its…
Browsing: Neil Burns
Gay?
In the insular, it felt like it at times, enforced statelet of Northern Ireland, sexual…
Gull
Try to envisage Odysseus, on stiff headland, on the Western Atlantic coast of Ireland, tilling…
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
I have a mild neurosis, situated in Utopian wish-fulfillment, of the ideal that I often…
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…
The Literary ‘Outsider’ Novel
Does an age of frenetic online activity afford time for literary masterpieces, especially Outsider Novels,…